ABSTRACT This study intended to assess the literacy skills development among rural primary school pupils in Kongwa District in Tanzania. Socio-cultural Theory guided this study. Qualitative approach was predominantly used in data collection by employing the case study design. Data were collected through semi- structured interviews, open –ended questionnaires, focus group discussion (FGD), observation and documentary review. The sample included 70 informants comprising of head-teachers, Tea...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate and document the experience of prisoners in accessing education. Specifically, the study examined the prospects and challenges of prisoners in accessing education through Open and Distance Learning (ODL) programme. Two prisons in Mbeya region were selected as a population of the study. The purposive sample of the study constituted of 39 respondents including prison learners, prison officers, programme coordinators, facilitators and a resi...
ABSTRACT The main focus of this study was to assess the role of headteachers as internal instruction supervisors of pupils’ academic performance in Tanzania. The study used both qualitative and quantitative approaches in collecting, presenting and analyzing the data obtained from the field. Questionnaire, interview, observation and documentary review methods were used for data collection. Purposive sampling and simple random procedures were used to collect data from 63 respondents includin...
ABSTRACT This study explored the relationship between teachers and parents and its contribution in improving students’ academic performance in community secondary schools. The study used qualitative research approach and supported by some elements of quantitative research approach. The study employed a cross–sectional research design. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used to select 91 respondents. Data were gathered through questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and docu...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at designing and developing activity based exemplary materials to enhance the teaching and learning of oral comprehension skills of expression among the secondary school students in Tanzania. The study designed interactive exemplary materials and tried out the materials to evaluate their effectiveness and efficiency in enabling the learners to develop confidence in self-expression. Questionnaires, interviews, classroom observations, documentary reviews, and pre-and ...
ABSTRACT Since the United Nations Declaration of the Decade for Women in 1975 following the global outcry of poor and low participation of women in decision making and in politics in the 1980s, the Government of Ghana with its institutions and international donor agencies and organisations started increasing their focus on empowering women by providing Non-Formal Education (NFE) programmes. This was to raise the women’s consciousness and to build their capacities and skills. The value assum...
ABSTRACT The oil and gas discovery and production in Ghana has given the country a new status which has invigorated the scholarly debate on the effects of oil and gas discovery on the socio-economic development of the citizenry. The discovery, and its subsequent production, at Ghana’s Jubilee fields was met with high expectations by the Ghanaian citizenry, especially those within the catchment areas, as far as enjoying quality job opportunities, socio-economic development in infrastructure,...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the processes that characterised the learning projects undertaken by the master automobile mechanics (MAMs) of Odawna in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana using a sample of 200. The objectives of the study were to find out how the MAMs learning projects were triggered, how the MAMs determined their learning objectives, content, methods of their learning and how they carried out evaluation of their learning projects. The study also examined the relationships bet...
ABSTRACT Adult education is conceived as activity that seeks to bring about improvements in the perceptual, intellectual, attitudinal and physical outlook of any adult and makes him/her function more effectively, economically, politically and socially.
ABSTRACT Since the United Nations Declaration of the Decade for Women in 1975 following the global outcry of poor and low participation of women in decision making and in politics in the 1980s, the Government of Ghana with its institutions and international donor agencies and organisations started increasing their focus on empowering women by providing Non-Formal Education (NFE) programmes. This was to raise the women’s consciousness and to build their capacities and skills. The value assum...
ABSTRACT The advancement in information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the last three decades or so has created opportunities in all sectors of human society to solve the human development problem. One of the practical ways of exploring ICTs to accelerate development in remote and underserved communities is through the introduction of the concepts of Community Information Centres (CICs). CICs have contributed to accelerated development in the developed world, however investment in...
ABSTRACT The success of the Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative is largely dependent on the critical role of the Community Health Officers (CHOs) as the frontline officers. The study sought to assess the effectiveness of the CHOs training programme in relation to its impact on CHOs performance in three selected districts in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The study used cross-sectional research design employing both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Purpo...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to gain insights into institutional policies and commitment for supporting Distance Education (DE) learners in public dual mode universities in Ghana. The study was underpinned by Simonson’s theory of equivalency and a Policy analysis framework (PAF) for studying distance education institutions. The study used the convergent parallel design of the mixed methods in which qualitative and quantitative approaches were adopted. Six principal officers and 632 DE...
INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Entrepreneurship is widely acknowledged as a key factor in promoting employment, fighting poverty and stimulating sustained economic growth (Adrangi et al. 2003; Botha et al., 2006). Furthermore, Garavan and O’Cinneade (1994: 3) noted that entrepreneurship is “a possible solution to rising unemployment rates and a recipe for economic prosperity.” This recent upsurge of interest has led to a host of supportive interventions aimed at promoting entr...
ABSTRACT Agricultural development is contingent upon the dissemination of useful and utilizable research findings to farmers in the form of language that can be easily understood and internalized by them.