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Direct linkYamada, 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
Laird, Siobhan E. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2006
This paper, originally given as an address to an African audience of students and academics, examines the functions of education in Africa and argues that the western-oriented approach at tertiary level is injurious to the intellectual development of students. It sets out an analysis of the processes at work in the University of Ghana which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Development, Social Work, Higher Education
