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Emmanuel Kwame Ahasu; Moses Paafio Kwao; Christian Lawerh Anim; Paulina Lamisi Zang – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
Introduction: This study explored the involvement of community resources in education planning and delivery in Ghana. It focused on how the involvement of community resources have had an impact on educational planning and development in the Ada East District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Methods: A qualitative method was used, and data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Parents, Teachers
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Blackman, Stacey; Mahon, Erin – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2016
Parental involvement has been defined in various ways by researchers and is reported to have many advantages for children's education. The research utilises a case study strategy to investigate teachers' perspectives of parental involvement at four case sites in Barbados. In-depth interviews were done with teachers and analysis utilised content…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Parent Participation, Special Education, Foreign Countries
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
We examine a program that enabled Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) in Kenya to hire novice teachers on short-term contracts, reducing class sizes in grade one from 82 to 44 on average. PTA teachers earned approximately one-quarter as much as teachers operating under central government civil-service institutions but were absent one day per week…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Ratio, Incentives, Governance, Teacher Associations