ABSTRACT The survival of every educational institution largely depends on its effects to supervise activities in the school to ensure efficiency in administration. The study was motivated by the desire to explore factors that influence effective supervision in junior high schools and to identify strategies that could help to manage the challenges. It points out the fact that supervision was targeted at providing assistance to teachers and also meeting quality demand in education. The access...
ABSTRACT Media sell both products and worldviews and in contemporary times, films have become a standard target to vend such products and worldviews. Some scholars have argued that media texts have ideological contents embedded in them for the reason that these media texts articulate either overtly or covertly the maker's attitudes, beliefs, political and sociocultural stances. This study through the lens of postcolonial theory, stereotype theory and theory of hegemony, and a qualitative con...
ABSTRACT The poor performance of JHS two (2) students of Akatsi-Zuta D/A Basic School in English language has been a source of worry to many people because other subjects they study have also been affected. The most disturbing aspect of the problem is the students’ inability to use the language to communicate effectively both in communication and in writing. Their sentences are full of concord errors. This has been attributed to their negative attitudes towards the L2 as most of the studen...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate the effect of head teachers’ leadership styles on the performance of teachers in selected Senior High Schools in the Offinso Municipality. The objectives of the study were to find out the leadership styles of headmasters, determine the effect of headmasters leadership style on teaching and learning and to find out the challenges headmasters face in their leadership in selected Senior High Schools in the Offinso Municipality. Descriptive surve...
ABSTRACT This study examines a literary appreciation of fifteen Anaanuurɛ Pɔgesi yuuma (APY), a genre of music among the Farefari people. The Farefari people are the speakers of Gurenɛ; Mmabia language, spoken by about 500,000 people, in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The study established that, women groups that sing these songs are an evolution from a long singing tradition among women in the Farefari community. With regard to the nature of the songs, the songs can be categorized into...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted at Tadze in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region. It examined the nature of child marriage vis-à-vis national and international legal frameworks on child marriage. This is a qualitative study that adopted descriptive design using the phenomenological approach. The concept “child” and “child marriage” were used in this context that “a child means every human being below the age of 18 years” and “child marriage” and “child brides” ...
ABSTRACT This study had a general purpose of determining how the leadership styles adopted by of headmasters influence teachers’ performance in senior high schools in the Kwadaso sub-metro. The objectives of the study were to identify the leadership styles employed by headmasters at the Kwadaso Sub-Metro, determine the impact of head masters’ leadership styles on Senior High School teacher’s performance, find out the challenges head masters’ leadership style pose on teachers’ perf...
ABSTRACT This study was fundamentally conducted to find the structure and style of libation prayer text among the Ga. It further looked at the concept of libation and its significance among the Ga. Purposive sampling was used to select the Ga Mashie Community for the study. Qualitative research was adopted for the study. The researcher collected data through observation, interview and documentation. The sample population for the study was twenty (20): comprising ten (10) elders in the Ga Ma...
ABSTRACT The study examined the issues discussed by Ghanaian news sites in their coverage of the UEW crisis. The study also investigated the tones used in the coverage of the UEW crisis and the perspectives of both UEW staff and students on the coverage of the crisis by news sites. Using framing theory, the study employed document analysis and interviews to gather data from purposely selected online publications from citifmonline.com and myjoyonline.com and 10 participants respectively. Con...
ABSTRACT Ghana as a nation has made moves to make governance structures accessible to all through decentralization. This is believed to speed development both at the national and local level notably district. Mainly, decentralization aimed at having men and women equally participate in the local governance structures and processes. But gender representation has not seen the much sought equality of men and women in these structures. Over the years, there has been a male dominance in terms of...
ABSTRACT The research aims at finding the differences in the levels of motivation between Anglophone learners of French as a foreign language and their counterpart Francophone learners of English as foreign language. The study also reports on the perceptions of these learners with regards to the importance of the French and English languages they are studying at Ghana Institute of Language (GIL), Kumasi. Questionnaires were administered to a total of 44 learners at the intermediate level, o...
ABSTRACT This work was done to find out whether religion actually plays any role in the socio- economic and professional life of the military personnel. Though the military has made provisions for and are required at every level to make such provisions that would enable the military personnel to practice a religion of his/her choice, the military personnel is largely perceived as not being religious. The work was to find out what has led to this perception. It was also to find out the extent...
ABSTRACT The study aimed to present a genre analysis of the introduction sections of sports news presentation programmes (SNPP) on selected television stations in Ghana. Specifically, the study sought to account for the schematic structure (that is the various rhetorical units, the sequence of moves, the textual space of each move identified) and some lexico-grammatical resources that are dominant in the selected rhetorical unit that was analyzed. Three television stations (GTV, Metro TV & ...
ABSTRACT Be, the unit under study, is realised as /bέ/, /bé/ or /bəʹ/ across the E3eme, T4`u and A`l4 dialects of the E3e language respectively. It has as an equivalent, “that” in the English language, s1 in Akan and ake in Ga. S1 and that have been studied widely as complementizers but be, according to Clements (1975), is a prepositional verb synonymous with the verb gbl4 (to say) in E3e. This study therefore sought to ascertain what kind of unit be actually is on the premise of T...
Introduction The purpose of this brief discussion is to highlight issues of demographic changes associated with an ageing population in Africa and what, I believe, must happen to avoid the next social crisis among African nations, especially here in Ghana. However, this is not a discussion of doom, gloom and crisis, because the demographic changes that I will discuss are products of development. These are problems to overcome, for certain, but also opportunities that we hope become part of th...