Education in Ghana

Yaya Fonye Odette

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This volume arises from a cooperation between Ghanaian and German academics. It answers the need to have a more comprehensive and up to date volume which addresses key topics, areas and problems of the Ghanaian education system with a focus on history, policy, and curriculum-related issues. For many years now there have not been new comprehensive publications in this field, and it is necessary to introduce a lot of recent changes in Ghana's education system and reflect about their challenges. The information and positions collected in this volume will be of interest to Policy Makers, Educators, Lecturers, Scholars, Students, Teachers, Parents and other interested people of Ghana and other (West)-African countries. The book will also be of great interest to international scholars who want to understand the Ghanaian education system or are involved in academic projects such as internship, exchange programmes and joint research activities with Ghanaian academics and educational institutions. Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah (PhD) is a senior lecturer in the Department of History Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana and a senior research associate in the Department of History, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Bea Lundt is Prof. (emer.) of History and still teaches at the Europe University Flensburg (Germany). She is also Guest-Professor at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Ghana.

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• Education

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• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 23 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789956553167
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Education in Ghana

Education in Ghana History and Politics E DITORS : Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah, Bea Lundt & Edmond Akwasi Agyeman

Education in Ghana: History and Politics Editors Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako- Gyampah, Bea Lundt & Edmond Akwasi Agyeman

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ISBN-10: 9956-553-99-9

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Notes on the Authors Ellen Abakah (Ph.D.)a is  trained adult educator with experience in higher education teaching and management, research, and project coordination, and in community development activities. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and History, a MPhil degree in Adult Education from the University of Ghana, and a PhD in Education, from the University of Technology Sydney (Australia). She is currently a faculty member at the Department of Adult Education and Human Resource Studies, University of Ghana. Her research interests include adult learning and education, teacher learning and continuing professional development, gender and development, and digital inequalities. Richardson Addai-Mununkum (Ph.D.) is a senior lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogic Studies in the Department of Educational Foundations, University of Education, Winneba (Ghana). He holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). He graduated with Bachelor of Education and Master of Arts degrees of the University of Cape Coast (Ghana). He has worked in various capacities as a teacher, teacher educator and researcher in Ghana, Germany, and the USA. He has also worked as a curriculum development consultant for agencies in Malawi and Wisconsin (USA). In Ghana, he is a member of the technical team for ongoing reforms in teacher education and teacher professionalism, as well as curriculum reforms at the pre- tertiary level. He is a recipient of the African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies. Prof. (emer.) Dr Christel Adick held the Chair of Comparative Education at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), until her retirement (1993 – 2013). She received her PhD at the University of Hannover (1979) based on her doctoral dissertation on Education and Colonialism focusing the example of Togo. While working at the Educational Science Department of the University of Siegen, she qualified for a full professorship (post-graduate) in 1990 with her inaugural dissertation on explaining the Global Diffusion of Modern Schooling during the last two hundred years (1992). She had been an appointed member of the Editorial Board of the International

Review of Education, supervised by the UNESCO Institute Hamburg, for ten years (2000 – 2010) and continues to be a consulting editor there. She has founded the edition of a series of books on comparative education (1997), which has continued since 2015 by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral and herself under the title “Research in Socialization and Education: International, Comparative, Historical” (Muenster: Waxmann). Her main research areas are: education, globalisation, and world society; historical- comparative education research; education and colonialism (especially Africa and the Caribbean); and transnational education, intercultural education and global learning. Anitha Oforiwah Adu-Boahenis a PhD student at the University of Cape Coast. Her thesis assesses student-teachers in the University of Cape Coast and the University of Education, Winneba Procedural knowledge. She is a Senior Lecturer and current Head of the Department of History Education at the University of Education, Winneba. She received her Bachelor of Education in Arts and M.Phil from the University of Cape Coast. Her primary research areas of interest include history education, curriculum implementation and evaluation. She is the author of several research papers in reputable journals. She has presented papers at international conferences on History Education and other education-related fields. She has also undertaken several consultancy assignments for local and international organisations, including Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL), National Teaching Council (NTC), and National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), among others. Internationally, she participated in different projects, including the Free University of Berlin project on Post- Colonial Historical Learning and the Professionalization in Teacher Training in History: The Example of West Africa and another with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in the NORPART project. Juliet Tiwaah Adu Boahenholds a Master of Philosophy in History Education from the University of Education, Winneba and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Whilst working as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of History Education, University of Education, Winneba, she developed a passion for researching into women and children’s’ health in the Gold Coast during colonial times. Her research is about health and many other social issues that affected women and children during the colonial

and post-colonial periods in Ghana and West Africa. Currently, she works as a history teacher at Aggrey Memorial A.M.E. Zion S.H.S in Cape Coast. Samuel Adu-Gyamfiis an applied historian at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumase (Ghana). His research focus is on Applied History including the social studies of health and medicine in Africa. Addressing what Niall Ferguson has called the ‘history deficit’ in policymaking, he engages in research and teaching in the area of History of Health Policy, History of Medicine in Africa, History of Science and Technology, Asante-British Relations in the Nineteenth Century, History of Ghana, Modern Chinese History with emphasis on China’s Relation with Africa, Politics and Development in Africa among others. His current research interests include applied history of epidemics, pandemics, education, and politics in Ghana among others. Prof. Edmond Akwasi Agyeman (Ph.D.)is an associate professor at the Centre for African Studies of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) (Ghana). He holds a PhD in Migration Studies from the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid (Spain). He was a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, Tohoku University (Japan). His research interest focuses on international migration, post-coloniality, African integration, higher education in Africa, social stratification, ethnicity, religion and culture. Between August 2018 and July 2022, he was the Director of the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Development (DRID) of the University of Education, Winneba. Professor Agyeman has won several research grants and undertaken several collaborative research in the area of migration, border management, religion and higher education in Africa. Currently he is on a research-trip to Germany. Justina Akansor, MPhil is a PhD student at the University of Ghana, Legon, and a lecturer at the Department of History Education at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW). She holds an MPhil in History from the University of Cape Coast. She is also an alumna of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) where she spent a semester during her MPhil programme and worked in an exchange programme at the Freie Universität Berlin. At UEW, where she teaches, she is the coordinator of the Faculty of Social Science Education Seminar Series. Before her lectureship position,

she worked as a Senior Research Assistant in the Department of History Education, UEW. She teaches courses such as Gender and Culture in Africa, History of Africa, History of Ghana, History of Civil Disobedience, and Indigenous Warfare in Africa at the undergraduate level, and has supervised several undergraduate research projects. Her research interests are diverse, covering areas such as social history, gender history, public health history and history education. Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah (Ph.D.)is a senior lecturer in the Department of History Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana and a senior research associate in the Department of History, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his doctorate in Historical Studies in 2019 at the University of Johannesburg and was a recipient of the university’s Global Excellence Stature Scholarship. His interests in African studies/history span social history of medicine and public health, comparative labour history, economic history, and ecological history, history of education, political economy, and political history. His current research focuses on sanitation and public hygiene in colonial and post-colonial Ghana. David Asumdais a lawyer with a specialisation in Natural Resource and Environmental Law. He is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Nairobi and holds a MPhil Degree in Mineral Economics (Geology with Law) from the University of Ghana and a Qualifying Professional Certificate in Law from the Ghana School of Law. He also holds an LLB Law Honours Degree, MA, and Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Westminster (UK), and an Extra-Mural Certificate (Legal Methods) from the University of London-Birkbeck College (UK). He also holds a Higher Professional Diploma in Law from the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX-UK) and a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism. Dr Peter Boakyeis a graduate of Juaben Senior High School in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He obtained his Teacher’s Cert ‘A’ from the Accra Teacher Training College in 2002. He graduated from the University of Cape Coast with a Bachelor of Education (Arts) with History as his major subject in 2008. His M. Phil- dissertation at the Department of History, University of Cape Coast focused on the contribution of Nana Kobina Nketsia IV to chieftaincy, politics, and

education in Ghana. His PhD dissertation explored issues surrounding the History of Politics in Education in Ghana, 1852- 2008. It contributes to the debate on how politics of governments influence education delivery in Ghana. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Cape Coast. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate students. His research interests cover issues related to History of Education in Ghana, Political and Social History of Ghana and History of Africa. Gabriel Botchwey (Ph.D.)an LLB Law Degree from the has Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Leeds (UK), and master’s degree in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, ERASMUS University Rotterdam, Netherlands. His recent publications include: School Selection and Local Food Production in Ghana’s School Feeding Programme, Cadernos de Estudos Africanos [Online], 41|2021, URL: http://journals.openedition.org/cea/6273; Compensation for Lands Compulsorily Acquired by the State: Issues of Non- Completion of Acquisition, Non-Payment of Compensation and Potential Unjust Enrichment, UCC Law Journal. Vol. 1 Issue 2 (2021); and Which Way Forward? Covid-19, Social Policy and Emergency Preparedness in Ghana, African Journal of Social Sciences Education, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021). Ebenezer Mintah Danquah is currently a PhD- Student in the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He obtained his MPhil in History from the University of Ghana in 2020 and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Education, Winneba. His interest in African History spans education, migrations across the West African, diaspora formation and transnational history of migration in West Africa. His current project focuses on a transnational history of Kru (Liberian) Diaspora formation across the th Guinea Coast/West African Atlantic from the eighteenth to 20 centuries. Prof. Esther Yeboah Danso-Wiredu (PhD) is an associate professor at the Geography Education Department. University of Education, Winneba. She had her Bachelor’s Education in Geography and Resource Development at the University of Ghana, Legon and obtained her Master of Philosophy in Social Change at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.

She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education at the University of Education, Winneba, and a PHD in Geography at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (KU Leuven). Her PhD research was on ‘The puzzles of living in urban poor communities: The role of informal governance structures in housing provision in Accra and Winneba, Ghana‘. She has experienced working with a number of NGOs within and outside Ghana and in teaching as well. Prince Essiawis a History Educator at Enchi College of Education in Ghana. He holds degrees in Curriculum and Teaching and History Education from the University of Cape Coast and University of Education, Winneba respectively. He has been engaged in several international exchanges including the Colonial Memory Project in Berlin and the Copenhagen Professionskòlen (KP) exchange programme where he took courses in Social Pedagogy, Curriculum and Creative Works with Children in the European Perspective. He has also served as a technical expert and a content developer for the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) in developing and reviewing history curriculum materials. His research interest is in History Education with special focus in curriculum development, textbook analysis and historical thinking. Prof. (emer.) Dr Bea Lundtstudied Social Sciences, History, and German Studies at the Universities of Cologne and Bochum(Germany). She holds a doctorate from the University of Bochum and a post-doctoral qualification in Premodern History from the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is a retired professor of Medieval History and History Education at the European University of Flensburg, (Germany). Since 2009 she is building up cooperations with African Universities in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon, and has been a guest professor at the University of Education, Winneba (Ghana), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Her research interests include historical narrative research, Africa’s history and culture, and gender research with an emphasis on Precolonial Times and the early Modern period. Dr Joan Nkansaa Nkansahis an educator and a researcher with a major research interest in curriculum and instruction at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education. She holds a Master of Arts in International Studies from the Ohio University, USA and a doctor of Education, Curriculum and Instruction from the University of West Florida, USA. She is affiliated with the School of Education,

Western Illinois University, USA. Gertrude Nkrumahis a PhD student in her third year of a four-year doctoral programme of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Her dissertation is about the German-Ghanaian encounter and exchange, with special focus on the Ghanaian returnees’ experiences. She holds a MPhil in History from the University of Ghana, Legon (2011). Her Master-thesisA History of Language Policy in Ghana, 1920-1971 exposed the historical forces underpinning Ghana’s linguistic outlook by deconstructing the colonial factor in the country’s language policy. She is currently lecturer and exam officer at the Department of History Education, Winneba. Since 2019 she is participant in an International exchange- project “Exploring Visual Cultures”, cooperating with the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and funded by Engagement Global and other German institutions. She is co-editor of an edited book “Gender in Visual Culture Africa-Europe”, together with Bea Lundt (forthcoming 2023). Fields of Interest and Research: African History, Transnational and Migration History, Gender and Women’s History. Prof. Samuel Nortey (Ph.D.)an associate professor at the is Department of Industrial Art, College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (Ghana). He holds a PhD in African Art and Culture from the same University. He has researched and published widely in cultural anthropology, art history, ceramics, contemporary art and art education. He has also been involved in local and international exhibitions, and curated the exhibition trilogy Building Bridges, Tiny but Mighty, and Women Only. Within art education, Nortey’s research has been on colonial education and its impact on Ghana’s art education. Currently, much of his projects are focused on women and skills development in Ghanaian ceramics and pottery. He is a member of the National Council for Education for the Ceramic Arts. Daniel Kofi Osae is a Geography Tutor at Kumasi Senior High School (Ghana). Helena Osei-Egyir is a doctoral candidate at the Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST-Kumase). Her research interests are centered on gender relations in Asante, education in Asante, and environmental history. Her current research looks at how people have utilised forests for their social, economic, spiritual, and