ABSTRACT The receptive skills involve listening and speaking while the productive skills deals with giving out information. The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges confronting Senior High School students in composition writing and the causes of these challenges in Dunkwa-On-Offin Municipality. The study employed descriptive survey design.The design was deemed suitable for the study because of its strengths as it enabled the researcher to gather information n from the sample...
ABSTRACT Maintaining positive hygiene practices among Caterers is a pre-requisite in sustaining healthy population which the school system is no exception. The study sought to examine food hygiene practices among Caterers of School Feeding Programme within the AhafoAno North Municipality. A sample size of 179 14 Caterers, 50 pupils and 115 teachers were selected from using purposive and convenience sampling techniques. Questionnaire, interview guide and observation served as the medium of col...
ABSTRACT This research sought to investigate instructional leadership delivery and classroom management of teachers among Public Basic Schools in Dormaa Municipality in the Brong-Ahafo Region. The target population for this study comprised of all public basic school teachers in the study area. (N= 1, 225). A sample of 130 teachers were randomly selected to participate in the study. Out of this sample selected, 124 representing 95% responded in the study. The study was conducted with descripti...
ABSTRACT This research aims at incorporating some Ghanaian neo-traditional and contemporary dance forms such as Agbadza, Adowa and Apatampa into the liturgy of St. Monica Anglican Church, Accra. While different dance styles resembling Ghanaian traditional dances have penetrated church services, few studies exists to reveal how these dance forms have been fused into church services. I define Ghanaian neo-traditional dances as those removed from their original setting for aesthetic, entertainme...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact of remedial lessons in English reading comprehension on students’ reading comprehension achievement among students of Presbyterian College of Education in Ghana. The study specifically sought to examine the specific reading comprehension problems of the students, the causes of the problems and the impact remedial lessons have on the English reading comprehension achievement of the students. To achieve the objectives of the study, mixed method resea...
ABSTRACT Basic education is supposed to lay the foundation for further education and training; to this end, it is necessary that it is of a high quality to achieve its purposes of preparing the young ones for further learning in the future and to equip them with relevant knowledge and skills to enable them function effectively in society. The study examined the impact of World Vision in the provision of basic education in the Talensi District in the upper East Region. The descriptive survey d...
ABSTRACT This case study examined Corporate Social Responsibility practices of in two hotels in Ghana: Windy Lodge Hotel and Coconut Grove Beach Resort Hotel. The study particularly examined the hotels’ motivation for adopting and implementing CSR and how those CSR initiatives are used to achieve sustainability in tourism. The study was underpinned by the legitimacy theory and the triple bottom line approach. Data were gathered through focus group discussion, interviews and document analysi...
ABSTRACT Existing literature on postcolonial cinema production in Sub-Saharan Africa demonstrates substantial success of indigenous film industries. The last two decades have witnessed a rise in local Akan videos originating largely from Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The quantum of movies produced, and audience reception have resulted in a decline in the circulation of foreign movies, including those of Nigerian origin which once dominated the Ghanaian cinema industry. Akan videos ar...
ABSTRACT Climate change is causing unusual, unpredictable and extreme weather events in the Ejura/Sekyedumasi Municipal. Although this level of exposure to climate change affects everyone in the Municipality, its impacts are differently distributed between men and women. The main objective of this study was to analyse the effects of climate change on the livelihoods of both men and women smallholder farmers. The study employed both primary and secondary data. Multistage sampling techniques we...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of the Schema Reading Approach on pupils in Basic Two (lower primary) in the University Basic Schools, Legon. It also explored the effect of two language teaching approaches, The Schema Reading Theory as against the Basal Reading Approach in teaching reading comprehension. It involved experiments on two different groups, the experimental and the control groups. A preliminary investigation and test were conducted before the experiments. Pre-test and post-...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine the relationship between the constructs - organizational commitment and employee performance at Ghana Audit Service (GAS). After existing literature was reviewed and the context of the study discussed, appropriate hypotheses were developed. Structured questionnaire was employed to collect data from 96 Ghana Audit Service (GAS) employees in the central region of Ghana. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation and multiple regression a...
ABSTRACT Information plays a very vital role in every aspect of life activities. Information is used at all times irrespective of the situation and circumstance. The ability of teachers to teach depends on their ability to have access to information and use it to effect change in an individual. The study sought to examine the information needs of teachers in second cycle institution in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of Ghana, how they acquire and use information using Wilson’s (1999) In...
ABSTRACT Gender has become a central issue in world discourse. It is more so in Islam because there is a general perception that the theology of Islam is built on gender injustice. The Dagomba people of Ghana converted to Islam in droves after the conversion of their King, Naa Zangina in about 1700. Since then, Islam has become the state religion of the Dagomba people and all their customs and traditions have become underpinned by Islam, including the negotiation of gender. There is a palpabl...
ABSTRACT This thesis is an ethnoarchaeological investigation of indigenous buildings in Old Buipe, northern Ghana. It focuses on the types of buildings that are found in the contemporary settlement, the processes by which the buildings are constructed, used and abandoned, the layout of buildings and compounds in the settlement and how these relate to the environmental, historical, social and economic contexts of the local people. Using an eclectic approach that includes a study of information...
ABSTRACT It is projected that high rate of death attributed to the cause of diabetes shall rise by 2030. Until recently, however, issues relating to ill health, especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa used to be dominated by infectious diseases and not non communicable diseases like diabetes. The Ghana Diabetes Care Model is the approach used thus far in diabetes education. This investigation explores the Popular Theatre process as a possible complement to the ‘top down’ approach of the Ghan...