Achieving Quality Education in Ghana: The Spotlight on Primary Education within the Kumasi Metropolis

Autor/inn/en	Boakye-Amponsah, Abraham; Enninful, Ebenezer Kofi; Anin, Emmanuel Kwabena; Vanderpuye, Patience
Titel	Achieving Quality Education in Ghana: The Spotlight on Primary Education within the Kumasi Metropolis
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Practice, 6 (2015) 17, S.9-22 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2222-1735
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Elementary Education; Educational Change; Educational Objectives; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Interviews; Questionnaires; Principals; Elementary School Teachers; Elementary School Students; Instructional Materials; Textbooks; Supplementary Reading Materials; Teacher Surveys; Student Surveys; Administrator Surveys; Ghana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elementarunterricht; Bildungsreform; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fragebogen; Principal; Schulleiter; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Reading materials; Lesekartei; Schülerbefragung
Abstract	Background: Ghana being a member of the United Nations, committed to the Universal Primary Education initiative in 2000 and has since implemented series of educational reforms to meet the target for the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 2. Despite the numerous government interventions to achieve the MDG 2, many children in Ghana have been denied Quality Primary Education by the state. This has resulted in mass illiteracy among children of Primary School age, unacceptable BECE examination results and overwhelming increase in anti-social behaviour nationwide. With the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches, data was collected through the use of questionnaire and rigorous interview. Sample consisted of 8 Head Teachers, 80 Class Teachers and 40 Pupils from four Primary Schools in Kumasi and it's environ. Most respondents expressed the lack of teaching and learning materials, especially textbooks, workbooks and supplementary readers as setbacks for Quality Primary Education. Head Teachers, Teachers and Pupils of Primary Schools argued that textbooks and supplementary readers are the only tools available for most Ghanaian children to acquire knowledge and skills, absence or limited textbooks and supplementary readers in the primary school will affect the educational foundation of school pupils. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01