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Download full textEmmanuel Mensah Kormla Tay; David Lansing Cameron – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to identify the negative behaviors that constitute bullying in higher education as reported by students, and (b) to explore differences in student experiences in two markedly different national contexts. A sample of 1,189 respondents from two universities in Ghana (n = 751) and two universities in Norway…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Bullying, Higher Education
Sarfo, Jacob Owusu; García-Santillán, Arturo; Adusei, Henry; Molchanova, Violetta S.; Drushlyak, Marina; Semenikhina, Olena; Donyeh, Philip Soyiri; Zand, Somayeh; Najafi, Reza; Enea, Violeta; Malik, Sadia; Ashraf, Farzana; Malik, Najma Iqbal; Ansah, Edward Wilson; Wongcharee, Hattaphan; Egara, Felix O.; Tipandjan, Arun; Cudjoe, Josephine; Azam, Uzma; Hassan, Mohammed Salah; Helmy, Mai; Vally, Zahir – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
Mathematics anxiety (MA) has a debilitating impact on learning, achievement, mental health, and the future career life of students. Though MA is a popular research theme, there is little agreement among researchers regarding the cross-cultural effect of gender. The purpose of this paper was to explore the perceived MA differences among males and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Mathematics Anxiety, Cross Cultural Studies, Statistical Analysis
Direct linkAnakwah, Nkansah; Horselenberg, Robert; Hope, Lorraine; Amankwah-Poku, Margaret; van Koppen, Peter J. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Increasingly, investigators conduct interviews with eyewitnesses from different cultures. The culture in which people have been socialised can impact the way they encode, remember, and report information about their experiences. We examined whether eyewitness memory reports of mock witnesses from collectivistic (sub-Saharan Africa) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Memory, Cues
Howard, Adam – Educational Review, 2022
Drawing on a multi-sited global ethnography of elite schools across the world, this article explores how elite schools prepare students for an increasingly interconnected world characterised by difference and competition through global citizenship education. In this exploration, I identify the four domains that give meaning to global citizenship…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Advantaged, Institutional Characteristics, Citizenship Education
Strand, Katherine; Rinehimer, Bridget – Music Education Research, 2018
The purpose of this autophenomenography was to explore our lived experiences in three world music pedagogy programmes. We participated in three different world music pedagogy programmes in the United States and Ghana. We gathered data through field notes and researcher journals, and by collecting interviews of other participants and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Social Influences, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Witoszek, Nina – Environmental Education Research, 2018
The article compares how the UN-initiated education for sustainable development (ESD) has fared in three seemingly dissimilar countries: Norway, a wealthy, 'post-materialist' liberal democracy, Ghana, a developing democratic country, and China, a fast catching-up, centrally-steered economy. The study--based on an analysis of national ESD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
Howard, Adam; Maxwell, Claire – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
Drawing on a multi-sited global ethnography of elite schools, this article explores how these institutions work to produce subjects that will thrive in a globalized world. We examine how despite a similar commitment to global citizenship education and a cosmopolitan orientation across all schools, the intersections between the transnational and…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Citizenship Education, Student Mobility, Cultural Awareness
Molla, Tebeje; Cuthbert, Denise – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
After decades of decline, African higher education is now arguably in a new era of revival. With the prevalence of knowledge economy discourse, national governments in Africa and their development partners have increasingly aligned higher education with poverty reduction plans and strategies. Research capacity has become a critical development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Doctoral Programs
Richter, Thomas; Zelenkauskaite, Asta – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
With the on-going "Learning Culture Survey", we aim to foster the implementation of culture-sensitive education. The motivation of this study is based on the need of a better understanding of the reasons for intercultural conflicts in education. These issues are particularly pertinent to international learning scenarios, such as in urban…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Gender Differences, Culture Conflict, Questionnaires
Kuyini, Ahmed Bawa; Mangope, Boitumelo – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2011
This study examined student teachers' attitudes and concerns about inclusive education in Ghana and Botswana. A three-part survey questionnaire consisting of background variables, attitudes, and concerns was completed by 202 students from four teacher training institutions in both countries. One of the institutions was a university and the others…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Student Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Hodge, Samuel; Ammah, Jonathan O. A.; Casebolt, Kevin M.; LaMaster, Kathryn; Hersman, Bethany; Samalot-Rivera, Amaury; Sato, Takahiro – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to analyse the beliefs about inclusion and teaching students with disabilities of physical education teachers from various countries and cultures. The participants were 29 physical education teachers from Ghana (Africa), Japan, the US and Puerto Rico. The research method was explanatory multiple-case study situated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Peer reviewedMcIntire, Walter G.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1974
The Parsons and Bales instrumental-expressive role differentiation model of family structure was evaluated cross-culturally. Adolescents from the United States and Ghana described their perceptions of components of their parents' role performance. Sex and cultural differences were found which did not support the Parsons and Bales…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Family Relationship
Commission for International Adult Education, 2012
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Religion
Peer reviewedGustav, Jahoda – British Journal of Psychology, 1979
To test assumptions of male superiority and African weakness in handling spatial relationships, elementary students in Ghana and Scotland were administered mental rotation and shape assembly tasks. Ghanaian subjects had more difficulty with mental rotation, while girls in both cultures did less well on block construction. (Author/SUL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedJahoda, Gustav – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
This partial replication study of Kail and Siegel (1977), conducted in Ghana and Scotland among boys and girls with 4 and 7 years of education, found no sex differences in relative recall of letters and positions. Evidence that verbal and spatial information is not always processed independently was found. Limitations of intracultural research as…
Descriptors: Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
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