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Engaging with a world outside of ourselves: Vistas of flatness, children's work and the urban informal economy

Mizen P.; Ofosu-Kusi Y. (University of Surrey, 2012)

This paper considers the work and labour of children living on the streets of Accra, Ghana. It does so in two distinctive ways. First, it considers how the children's photographs of a day or two in their working lives, and ...
Addressing HIV/AIDS education: A look at teacher preparedness in Ghana

Weiler, J.M; Martin-Weiler, C.J (Published in Journal of International Social Studies, 2012)

Our research shows that social science university trained Ghanaian student/teachers do have the knowledge, confidence, and willingness to address HIV/AIDS issues in their teaching, yet they do not. The reason, we argue, ...
Curriculum Feuding and Implementation Challenges: The Case of Senior High School (SHS) Social Studies in Ghana

Bekoe, S.O; Eshun, I (Published in Journal of Education and Practice, 2013)

The subject Social Studies in the Senior High Schools (SHS) curricula (3 & 4 year policy) in Ghana is taught mostly by graduate teachers from the country’s two teacher preparation universities-University of Cape Coast ...
Formative assessment techniques tutors use to assess teacher trainees’ learning in social studies in Colleges of Education in Ghana

Bekoe, S.O; Eshun, I; Bordoh, A (Published in Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013)

Internal assessment is an integral part of teaching and learning in Social Studies in the Colleges of Education in Ghana and is beneficial to both students and tutors if use formatively. It is therefore important for ...
Influences of the pedagogical content knowledge of graduate social studies teachers on questions they set in Senior High Schools in Ghana

Quashigah, A.Y; Eshun, I; Mensah, M.F (Published in Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013)

This study investigated the pedagogical content knowledge of Social Studies teachers and their assessment practices in Senior High Schools in Ghana. This research question guided the study: How does trained graduate ...
Exploring social studies teachers’ conceptions on nature and content of social studies in Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Central Region of Ghana

Bekoe, S.O; Eshun, I (Published in Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013)

Social Studies, as a subject in the SHS curricula in Ghana, is taught mostly by graduate teachers from the country’s two teacher preparation universities UEW) and graduates from other universities. Analysis of their ...
Dropping out: Identity conflict in and out of school in Ghana

Dunne M.; Ananga E.D. (2013)

This paper explores geographies of identity of Ghanaian school dropouts. In particular, we investigate how school dropouts in rural communities construct narratives of identity within and outside school. In our analysis ...
Neoliberalism and Housing Provision in Accra, Ghana: The Illogic of an Over-Liberalised Housing Market

Ofosu-Kusi Y.; Danso-Wiredu E.Y. (Springer Nature, 2014)

The economic hardships experienced by African countries in the late 1970s forced many of them to fall on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank for financial relief. The two institutions� reaction in ...
Beyond pluralizing African childhoods: Introduction

Abebe T.; Ofosu-Kusi Y. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016)

This Special Issue of Childhood moves beyond stereotypical images of African children to document the complex ways in which contemporary realities and processes of social transformations shape and are shaped by children�s ...
A quantitative methodology for assessing sustainable tourism potentials

Kursah M.B. (Cognizant Communication Corporation, 2017)

Sustainable tourism potential is the measure of the ability and opportunity of material and nonmaterial elements to attract tourists to a destination that takes full account of its current and future socioeconomic and ...
Least-cost pipeline using geographic information system: The limit to technicalities

Kursah M.B. (IGI Global, 2017)

Increasing demand for water in Wapuli and its environ led to a proposal to construct a pipeline to link the town to an existing water plant. This paper developed a geospatial model incorporating multicriteria analysis ...
Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining: Chinese miners and the state in Ghana

Crawford G.; Botchwey G. (Routledge, 2017)

As gold prices soared from 2008 onwards, tens of thousands of foreign miners, especially from China, entered the small-scale mining sector in Ghana, despite it being �reserved for Ghanaian citizens� by law. A free-for-all ...
Modelling malaria susceptibility using geographic information system

Kursah M.B. (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2017)

Identifying and/or predicting the geography of malaria will help decision makers locate the particular area with the health problem, and to design area-specific interventions. Using GIS (ArcMap 10.1), a spatial analysis ...
Herding behaviour and investment decisions of individuals with fraudulent microfinance institutions in Ghana

Abotsi A.K.; Richardson T.E. (Society for Research and Knowledge Management, 2018)

Access to credit and financial services of sections of the societies in low-income developing countries has led to the proliferation of genuine and fraudulent microfinance institutions in recent times and this has been the ...
The Social Intentionality of Battered Women�s Agency in Ghana

Adjei S.B. (Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2018)

There is a growing body of research which suggests that victims of intimate partner violence (IPV; mostly women) continue to remain in abusive relationships. Many of the Western psychological theorisations focus on battered ...
Gendered Dynamics and Reciprocity in Fishing Communities in Ghana: The Case of Penkye, Winneba

Danso-Wiredu E.Y. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2018)

The history of Penkye is linked to that of Winneba township since it is the first place the Effutu people settled in the town. Located along the coast, majority of its residents are employed in the fishing industry. ...
Resolving the landfill siting impasse: modelling technocratic and indigenous perspectives using GIS multicriteria approach

Kursah M.B. (Springer Netherlands, 2018)

Increase in waste generation calls for an effective waste management as this has become a necessity for environmental sustainability. Several methods are adopted in managing waste, which include waste reduction, reuse, ...
Willingness to pay for sachet water plastic waste management through deposit-refund system

Kursah M.B.; Baabereyir A. (Inderscience Publishers, 2019)

This study was conducted in order to ascertain whether residents in Accra-Tema are willing to pay for sachet water plastic waste management using the deposit refund system (DRS), how much they are willing to pay as well ...
Linking motivation and alliance to perceived ambidexterity outcomes at the individual level in academia

Teye E.T.; Abosi B.A.; Tetteh A.N.; Ntim S.Y.; Teye A.; Aseidua-Ayeh O.L.; Dubi S.A. (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2019)

Purpose: Previous research has considered human motivation as a determinant of inquisitiveness, learning and innovation. However, how student�s motivation affects both exploitative/exploratory research outcomes has not yet ...
Geospatial analysis of landfill site selection perspectives using geographic information systems in Bongo district, Ghana

Amoah R.A.; Kursah M.B. (Springer Nature, 2019)

This study applied geospatial tools in geographic information systems�(GIS) to produce five different landfill suitability maps using criteria selection and prioritisation from the governmental guideline, the local ...

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