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Owusu, Patrick; Obuo Addo, Akosua – Cogent Education, 2023
Meaningful learning occurs when individuals connect their existing knowledge with their current understanding. Unfortunately, many teaching practices neglect the learners' subconscious knowledge, also known as their "funds of knowledge." The result is a disconnect between school and home knowledge, social injustice towards students whose…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Mathematical Concepts
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Amutabi, Cyprian; Agoot, Martha Nyantiop – Cogent Education, 2021
Despite the consensus on the vital role of human capital investment towards a country's socio-economic development, school enrolment levels in South Sudan remain dismal with no empirical study conducted to unravel the same. Using the 2016 South Sudan Frequency Survey data, this study sought to unravel the determinants of primary school enrolment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status
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Yeboah, Rita; Abonyi, Usman Kojo; Luguterah, Austin Wontepaga – Cogent Education, 2019
This instructional resource production project explored low cost and waste materials for developing practical and interactive resources for teaching science at the basic school level. Developing countries, including Ghana, are not able to provide teachers with instructional resources for teaching and learning due to financial constraints. Science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Developing Nations
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Salifu, Inusah; Boateng, John Kwame; Kunduzore, Salifu Sandubil – Cogent Education, 2018
This study sought to examine the extent of contribution of school feeding programmes towards the achievement of the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) policy in countries. Based on a purposive sampling of a deprived rural community in northern Ghana, the study utilised the concurrent mixed method design relying mainly on documentary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Educational Policy, Access to Education