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"Traditions" and Cultural Production: Character Training at the Achimota School in Colonial Ghana
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Yamada, Shoko – History of Education, 2009
This paper investigates the educational philosophy and practices of Achimota School, which was established in the Gold Coast Colony (the southern part of today's Ghana) in 1927 as the governmental model school for leadership education. Achimota's education aimed to develop leaders who were "Western in intellectual attitude",…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Leadership Training, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership