ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of conflict in senior high schools in the Offinso Municipal. The objectives of the study were to identify the causes of conflict in Senior High Schools, find out the effects of conflicts on teachers performance and to determine the strategies put in place for resolving conflicts in Senior High Schools in the Offinso Municipality. The study employed a descriptive survey design using questionnaire to collect data. The target po...
ABSTRACT Teachers are by statutes and board regulations in a unique way charged with the direct responsibility for maintaining order in schools. Quite often, teachers use strategies that tend to give more power to themselves such as rules, regulations, punishment and rewards, to maintain order to the exclusion of students’ own efforts such as, students’ learning to selfregulate their behaviour based on their own experiences. The study investigated teachers’ understanding and practice o...
ABSTRACT The study investigated how Junior High School pupils from deprived households in Kasoa cope with their academic work. The concurrent triangulation design within the mixed method approach was used for the study. Data were collected by administering questionnaire and a semi-structured interview guide to 80 Junior High School pupils and 4 headteachers in Kasoa who were sampled using the simple random and purposive sampling techniques respectively. Quantitative data were analysed using ...
ABSTRACT The essence of this study is to identify noun errors, why students commit such errors and suggest measures which can be used to enhance students‟ knowledge on the identification of head noun within a noun phrase by students of Chiana Senior High School. The study sets forth to ascertain the specific grammatical problem areas students of Chiana Senior High School (CHIANSEC) faced, to find out the possible factors that account for the challenge, and to suggest ways of solving it. D...
ABSTRACT This dissertation employs a theoretical perspective, bringing together concepts from social, symbolic interactionism, symbolic consumption, patterns and sociolinguistic theory. The study adopted mixed design to collect qualitative and quantitative data for the study. Using purposive sampling techniques, 70 participant s where selected to participate in the study. The participants include weavers and users of kente cloth. Questionnaire and interview guide, were used to collect data ...
ABSTRACT In Ghana and globally, continuous professional development (CPD) is most essential for promoting teacher learning and improving school effectiveness, but it is a field of progressive opportunities and research. This study therefore seeks to investigate the development and impact of the attitudes of CPD programmes to teachers and also sought to gather the impact of CPD on both their classroom practices and wider professional life in schools. A qualitative approach was adopted and th...
ABSTRACT Mining companies in Ghana receive criticism from inter alia the media, civil society organizations, Governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for not properly responding to the challenge of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to compensate for the negative effects of their activities in host communities. Although some mining companies plan and prosecute CSR policies and projects to improve their public image and increase economic opportunities and improve social welfare...
ABSTRACT The estimated population of forcibly displaced people worldwide as of 2017 was about 68.5 million. Out of this number, 25.4 million were refugees. By these figures, there was an increase in the number of refugees by 2.9 percent from the figures recorded for the immediately preceding year - 2016 figures. As at the end of 2018, 19.9 million refugees were under the mandate of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) whiles the other 5.4 million were under the mandate of Uni...
ABSTRACT This is a qualitative study that investigates the sources of errors in the English sentence constructions of the deaf in the Senior High Secondary School for the deaf at Akuapim Mampong in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The instruments used for data collection were observation and test. The total number of instruments used were 30, these were randomly selected from the Home Economics, Visual Arts and the Technical Departments. From these a total of 310 errors were identified. Sources...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the communication strategies used by three Civil Society Organisations in the Northern Region of Ghana. It identified the nature of the communication strategies of the selected Civil Society organisations; and as well, the reasons for using these communication strategies and how they meet the needs of the community members. The three CSOs engaged in the study were the Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA), the Youth Empowerment for life, and the Wes...
ABSTRACT The study examined Galatians 4:21-31 as a covenantal discourse. The research used the Hermeneutical theory of Ricoeur, which is a double dialectic movement from understanding to explanation to comprehension and then appropriation. The study also adapted Ricoeur’s theory to African biblical interpretation by creating an encounter between Ricoeur and West (2001) at the pre-understanding stage. The study considered covenantal discourse as that which appraised existing covenant event, ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate rationale behind the resort to the use of instructional technologies in the classroom by teachers in the Afigya Kwabre District. The objectives of the study were to find out how frequent teachers use instructional technologies in basic schools of the Afigya Kwabre district, determine the reasons for non-usage of instructional technologies in basic schools of the Afigya Kwabre district and to ascertain the factors that influence the use of...
ABSTRACT The study investigated parental attitude towards public basic school in Sefwi Wiawso Municipality. It aimed at looking for the reasons why parents who have their children in the public basic schools ignore their responsibilities in educating their children. Mixed method was used in the study. Purposive sampling was used to select the respondents while simple random sampling method was used to select the schools which were used for the study. Questionnaire and interview guide were in...
ABSTRACT Students’ information management holds a strategic position in the effective and efficient administration of the higher education system. The growing student populace in institutions of higher learning has hastened the requirement for ICTs in order to effectively process, store and retrieve reliable information in a swift and precise manner. The study aimed at examining the use of ICTs for students’ information management in Technical Universities (TUs) in Ghana in ways that addr...
ABSTRACT Studies have been conducted on causes of spelling errors in essay writing and comprehension. However, these studies conclude that additional spelling errors is the best way to increase a student’s spelling level. The study adopted quantitative research design with a population of one hundred and eighty (180) students. The study was conducted in all the three Departments of Tempane Senior High School. The finding was that students committed seven categories of errors with the total...