ABSTRACT The „Right To Play‟ (RTP) is a non-state actor that uses play-based approach to educate students in some countries across the world with the aim of promoting inclusive and equitable quality education and ensuring peaceful and just societies. This dissertation studied the contributions that the play-based approach of RTP made to the attainment of MDG 2 in Ghana and the contributions that the play-based approach is likely to make towards the attainment of SDG 4 in Ghana. The stud...
ABSTRACT Evidence abounds to show that natural hair is an evolving phenomenon among Ghanaian women. This study investigates the diverse types of hairstyles categorised as natural hair and examines the increasing preference for natural hair over chemically altered or adulterated hairstyles in Ghana. It also explores the variables that enforce and redefine the wearing of natural hair as a form of cultural heritage in the country. The study employed a qualitative study design. It used ethnograph...
ABSTRACT The Balme library is the main library of the University of Ghana. It is the Country's premier University library and renders a wide range of services to the academic community. Although provision offacilities and staffing appear to be adequate there seem to be less emphasis on service delivery. So far it appears that no effort has been made to assess service quality as perceived by the client at Balme. This study is conducted to detennine the perceptions of students as they relate ...
ABSTRACT This study aims at finding out the variables of the patrons of The Catholic Standard that has existed for more than seven-five years. There has not been a national scientific study of the readership of The Catholic Standard. Hence, qualities of readers are assumed in each diocese. This readership study of The Catholic Standard took place in Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocese which happens to be the furthest from the printing press. The purpose was to unravel characteristics of read...
ABSTRACT This study analyses the power relations, ideologies and persuasive techniques employed through language in the selected campaign speeches of two presidential candidates – Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and John Dramani Mahama during the 2012 general elections in Ghana. The linguistic and textual features of the selected speeches and the socio-cultural situations that influence the speeches are considered in the analysis. The analysis employs analytical frameworks mainly in a Critical...
ABSTRACT Womanism as a variant of African feminism provides the platform for a holistic analysis of the works of African female writers. In this work, Ogunyemi’s womanist theory is read into the works of two Nigerian female writers, Chimamanda Adichie and Buchi Emecheta, authors of Purple Hibiscus and The Joys of Motherhood respectively. Undertaking a womanist reading of these two novels is aimed at ascertaining the different and similar ways these female novelists articulate womanist theor...
ABSTRACT Male involvement in abortion and post-abortion family planning use is pivotal in reducing unintended pregnancies while optimising contraceptive use. While literature is extant with the positive outcomes of men’s role in abortion and contraceptive use, there is insufficient interrogation of the relationship between male partners’ involvement in abortion and post-abortion family planning uptake. This study sought to examine the relationship between male partners’ involvement in a...
ABSTRACT This study is couched within the framework of Basic Linguistic Theory. It takes a descriptive approach to the study of the typology of questions and their responses in the Efutu dialect of the Awutu-Efutu language (Guan, Kwa). It is further aimed at establishing the relevance of focus in questions and to find out how question intonation and questions particles interact. The typology of questions was based on the kind of responses the questions solicit. Three types of questions were i...
ABSTRACT The rights and protection of children have become the central focus of sustainable human development. However, children are usually left out in all decisions that are meant to promote their well-being. One such discussion is the issues of child labour. The main aim of the study was to examine how children could participate in the various processes of eliminating child labour in cocoa growing areas. A mixed method approach was used. This included a survey, focus group discussions and ...
ABSTRACT Tourism over the years has played a major role in many developing economies including Ghana. It competes with gold, cocoa and remittances as a key source of revenue for the state. For a successful and thriving tourism industry in any country, it there is the need to uphold tourists’ the safety and security as well as convince potential tourists of their safety and security at a destination. Thus, the state and other private tourist institutions have the responsibility to safeguard ...
ABSTRACT The study aimed to identify the effects of teaching and learning conditions on educational outcomes in the La Nkwantanang Municipality. The data sets of the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 6) and the Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) together with the qualitative data obtained through field interviews were employed to address the research questions. An unstructured interview guide was mainly used for the collection of the qualitative data from 30 ...
ABSTRACT Despite efforts to counter human trafficking, it is still an issue of global concern. However, most of the works on human trafficking have focused on challenges, health implication on victims, its threats to national security and transnational human trafficking activities with little attention on the implementation plans of the policies, legal and institutional frameworks that govern the Act. This research examined how policies, specifically the National Plan of Action for the Elim...
ABSTRACT This study adopted a case study approach to investigate the foster care component of the Care Reform Initiative (CRI) of the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MGCSP, Ghana) from the perspectives of both programme implementers and foster parents. Serious attention was given to efforts made to ensure the availability of a pool of family-based foster parents for the programme in Accra and experiences associated with it. The topi...
ABSTRACT The study of age at first sexual intercourse and parity examined the relationship between age at first sexual intercourse and parity among women in three selected urban poor communities in Accra, Ghana. The study investigated the average age at first sexual intercourse among women aged 15-49 years and their implications on fertility. The unit of analysis was individual women aged 15-49 years and the data set that was used for the analysis was the EDULINK 2011 wave two. Statistical me...
ABSTRACT From 1951 when Dr Kwame Nkrumah embarked on expansion of the education system in the then Gold Coast to the present, there have been several initiatives aimed at developing the education system. The most prominent are; the Accelerated Development Plans for Education (1951 and 1961), the New Structure and Content of Education Plan (1974), the New Educational Reform Programme (NERP) (1987), and the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (1996). These initiatives show that education ...