ABSTRACT Teaching profession needs to be mastered, and teachers need to be developed. Investing in teachers' professional development is important. Hence, this study aims to look into the structure of staff professional development practices in the Ghana Education Service (GES), and determine the relationship that exist between staff professional development and teachers’ performance. To achieve this, the study sought the perception of teachers towards the staff professional development pra...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the leadership behaviours of school heads of public and private junior high school head teachers in Tafo–Pankrono circuit Sub in Kumasi Metropolis and its impact of the students’ academic performance. The sample for the study consisted of 120 teachers comprising of 60 from public schools and 60 from private schools, together with 9 public school head masters and other 9 private school head masters. Questionnaire in the form of likert form...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted on the acoustic analysis of nasal consonant sounds in the Ewe language spoken in Ghana. Three major dialects were selected; Tɔŋu, Aŋlɔ and Eʋedome, with the purposes of investigating the acoustic properties of the Ewe nasal consonants, how the nasal consonants occurred at word positions in these dialects and identify similarities and differences existing at the dialectal levels. The analysis was made with the structure NV, VNV, NVN, CVN and NCV using mon...
ABSTRACT Recent educational reform efforts have focused on creating effective school environment as a means of improving students’ achievement. Against this backdrop, there have been a surge in concerns that claim that success of educational reforms cannot be guaranteed without paying attention to school leadership. The main objective of the study was to examine the effects of head teachers’ leadership practices on school culture using Senior High Schools in the Kwahu-West municipality in...
Contrary to the traditional modernist theories that development and progress can only be achieved through the western secular modernizing project
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of married women concerning male dominance in Mozano. The study sought to ascertain the ways married men dominate their wives in the Mozano community, explore the factors responsible for male dominance in the Mozano community and to assess the effects of male dominance on married women. The researcher adopted phenomenological design with qualitative approach using interviews and Focus Group discussions to get data for the study...
ABSTRACT In the world of unequal opportunities are children deprived of normal home life with kith and kin who have to be in the street to struggle and engage in all activities for their survival and that of their relatives. The number of children, both foreigners and nationals, on the streets is becoming alarming. The stigma involved and their fears on the streets have not received the needed attention as well as reactions. The objectives of the study were to investigate and comprehend their...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the framing of the collapse of UT Bank and Capital Bank on myjoyonline.com and ghananewsagency.org. The study specifically sought to ascertain the main issues that dominated online reportage on the collapse of UT Bank and Capital Bank as well as how the collapse of the two banks was framed by ghananewsagency.org and myjoyonline.com. It also investigated the factors that influenced the choice of frames adopted by journalists in reporting the collapse of the two ban...
ABSTRACT Employment promotes economic growth and development in a country. It plays a key role in the eradication of poverty among citizens in a country. This thesis is a quantitative study research which uses the Ghana Living Standard Survey round seven (GLSS, 2016/2017) to study sex differences in employment status and sector in Ghana. The sample size for this study was 22,378 representing both the employed and the unemployed and a sub-sample of 19,054 employed were selected out of those wh...
ABSTRACT This study is explicitly geared towards investigating the use of primary auxiliary verbs in Baapelug Junior High School and it gives specific problems and the various interpretations extracted from the use of these verbs in the basic schools in the District. This study aims at looking for primary auxiliary verbs which are more used wrongly at their level. The descriptive approach to research was adopted for this study. A sample of the population was given a written test to find the l...
ABSTRACT The study examines the kinds of posts CEOs share on social media and further investigates how the concepts of self-branding and corporate branding are enacted through the posts. This research, through the lens of Goffman’s Presentation of Self and the theory of identity construction, and anchored on a case study design interrogates Facebook and Twitter posts of two purposively selected CEOs. This study indicates that the selected CEOs share posts on governance, their personalities,...
ABSTRACT Ghana, due to various economic and demographic factors, also growing concern among the general populace on the adequacy of pension benefits has undergone pension reform. The new Ghanaian Pension scheme set with the objective of securing pension income of plan members is a combination of the Defined Benefit (DB) and a Defined Contribution (DC) pension plans in a three-tier structure. This thesis examines three major issues affecting pension provision in Ghana. That is, the risks assoc...
ABSTRACT This thesis investigated students’ perception of sex education in senior high schools in Biakoye District in the Volta Region of Ghana. The study sought to unearth students’ perception of the sex education in senior high schools. The study reviewed theoretical and empirical studies on sex education. The goal of the study was to address the knowledge gap in the literature by contributing to an understanding of the need to enhance teaching of sex education in senior high schools. D...
ABSTRACT The study was designed to investigate into the perception of University of Education, Winneba lecturers on the use of Student Evaluation of Lecturers as a feedback tool to enhance their instructional practices. A twenty-item Likert-scale type self-administered questionnaire was adopted from Machingambi and Wadesango (2011) and were distributed to 170 respondents drawn from a population of 416 lecturers of University of Education, Winneba. The data was analysed using descriptive stati...
It is commonly believed that women are the typical victims of domestic violence, and that most perpetrators are men. To varying degrees, this view has shaped different stances on and responses to domestic violence as a social problem, in areas ranging from government policy to feminist groups campaigns. However in the world today, this focus on women as the victims of domestic violence has become minimal paving way to the attention of male victimization, especially in Ghana. Domestic violence...