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Determinants of Research Collaboration towards a Knowledge-Based Economy in Ghana
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Mensah, Mavis S. B.; Enu-Kwesi, Francis – Industry and Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to analyse the determinants of the intention of academic researchers to collaborate on research projects with the carriers of innovation. An explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach was employed to analyse survey data from 266 stratified sampled researchers and 11 key informants from different disciplines in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Economy, State Universities, College Faculty
Five Years After; the Impact of a Participatory Technology Development Programme as Perceived by Smallholder Farmers in Benin and Ghana
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Sterk, B.; Christian, A. K.; Gogan, A. C.; Sakyi-Dawson, O.; Kossou, D. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2013
Purpose: The article reports effects on livelihoods of a participatory technology development effort in Benin and Ghana (2001-2006), five years after it ended. Design: The study uses data from all smallholders who participated in seven experimental groups, each facilitated by a PhD researcher. Baseline data and controls were not available. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Followup Studies, Agricultural Occupations
Evaluating Team Project-Work Using Triangulation: Lessons from Communities in Northern Ghana
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Clark, Gordon; Jasaw, Godfred Seidu – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
This paper uses triangulation to assess key aspects of a team-based, participatory action research programme for undergraduates in rural communities across northern Ghana. The perceptions of the programme and its effects on the students, staff and host communities are compared, showing areas of agreement and disagreement. The successes of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Mixed Methods Research, Participatory Research
Intersecting Poverty and Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania
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Morley, Louise; Lussier, Kattie – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2009
Higher education policy and research tend to be dominated by the messaging systems of the North. De Sousa Santos argues that we need to start listening to the South and that we need to develop a sociology of absences. This paper attempts to engage with some of these absences by deconstructing participation in higher education, in quantitative and…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Research Projects, Foreign Countries