No Pending National Elections, Who Cares? What Newspaper Publications Reveal about Local Efforts Towards Millennium Development Goal 3

Autor/inn/en	Arku, Frank S.; Arku, Cynthia
Titel	No Pending National Elections, Who Cares? What Newspaper Publications Reveal about Local Efforts Towards Millennium Development Goal 3
Quelle	In: Educational Research Quarterly, 37 (2013) 1, S.60-86 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0196-5042
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Newspapers; Equal Education; Sex Fairness; Development; Rural Areas; Urban Areas; Elections; Discourse Analysis; Elementary Education; Secondary Education; Postsecondary Education; Developing Nations; Ghana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Newspaper; Zeitung; Sexualaufklärung; Entwicklung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Urban area; Stadtregion; Election; Wahl; Diskursanalyse; Elementarunterricht; Sekundarbereich; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland
Abstract	The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has become a catch phrase in development discourse. This study is an assessment of the MDG 3: to promote gender equality at all levels of education in Ghana. The Daily Graphic (a newspaper in Ghana) which is Ghana's prominent newspaper was reviewed from 2000 to 2011 to determine the frequency of articles pertaining to addressing gender disparity at all levels of education and their sources. Also, we compared the rural and urban geographical emphasis of the articles. Findings demonstrated that primary level of education received the largest emphasis with the least number of writings on tertiary education. The articles were mainly authored by NGOs, politicians and education practitioners, and the majority referenced rural communities. It appeared that national elections influenced the frequency of the articles that The Daily Graphic published over the review period. We conclude that monitoring systems are central to keeping governments on track. Similarly, efforts that encourage the public to make their voice heard by frequently sending in articles can keep the state and other development agencies continually challenged and motivated until they deliver on their promises. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2019/1/02