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Reconceptualised Life Skills in Secondary Education in the African Context: Lessons Learnt from Reforms in Ghana
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Akyeampong, Kwame – International Review of Education, 2014
Early notions of life skills in Africa did not take into account the importance of a flexible and portable set of skills that would enable youth to adapt to changes in the world of work and lay the foundations for productive well-being and behaviour. Rather, life skills education in many secondary education curricula in Africa started with an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Daily Living Skills, Secondary Education, Context Effect
Evaluation in a Developing Context: Constraints on the Evaluation of an Integrated Science Course in Ghana.
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Lutterodt, S. A. – International Review of Education, 1979
The author describes the evaluation planning done for the Project for Science Integration in Ghana, with emphasis on the contextual limitations in a developing nation concerning the teachers, students, authors, materials, and finances. With careful planning, it was found that illuminating data for instructional improvement could be collected. (SJL)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
The 1987 Junior Secondary-School Reform in Ghana: Vocational or Pre-Vocational in Nature?
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Osei, George M. – International Review of Education, 2004
The secondary-education system in Ghana was reorganised in the early 1980s. The present study addresses one part of this reform: the attempt to introduce a more vocationally oriented curriculum in junior secondary schools. The findings on which this study is based are drawn from interviews at several levels as well as from documentary analysis and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Secondary Education