ABSTRACT Highlife dance band music is one genre of popular music in Ghana that makes use of both Western and African idioms. This makes highlife music to be enjoyed by both Africans and Westerners. One unique characteristic of this type of highlife music is improvisation. Other instruments such as the trumpet and guitar perform this style but the saxophone instrument, is preferred above all the others. This study aims at recording and compiling selected saxophone solos by the Tempos and Rambl...
ABSTRACT This study explored and described the Primary Health Care experiences of Community Health Nurses (CHNs) in Nkoranza South in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. Four themes served as a guide to investigate the experiences: the factors that serve as hindrances to Primary Health Care delivery, the factors that facilitate Primary Health Care delivery, the methods CHNs use in ensuring optimum Primary Health Care delivery and ways CHNs create rapport with clients in communities. The design o...
ABSTRACT Lunsi musical type, according to the Frafra in Tamso, is a traditional music meant for general use in the community. It can be performed at funerals, weddings, parties and any other recreational events. This study accesses the difference in lunsi at its place of origin and at Tamso so far as instrumentation, costume, recruitment, training, performance, communication, and migration are concerned. The study also examines the characteristics of lunsi music as compared to that of African...
ABSTRACT The study evaluated the World Vision Ghana’s Health and Nutrition programme at Bongo in the Upper East Region. Issues of health and nutrition are very crucial since they are closely related to the development of the individual and by extension, nations. There is widespread malnutrition and ignorance of health issues in most rural communities in Ghana. World Vision is operating in most of these rural communities in Ghana, and interventions in Health and Nutrition are undertaken in a...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the role of education in fostering national unity in Ghana and Nigeria.
ABSTRACT The research study investigated and identified the factors responsible for the declining standard of Secondary Education in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara state. A self developed questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection. It was discovered that in adequate number of qualified teachers and professional teachers is responsible for the declining standard of education. Other factors are: Lack of proper guidance to the students by the concerned authority on the ...
ABSTRACT Geometry and on larger scale mathematics was not taught to learners with visual impairment and so they do not write public examinations in the area of mathematics (geometry) in Nigeria. This study is on effect of applied orientation and mobility programme on attitude and achievement in geometry of learners with visual impairment in Abuja and Gindiri. The specific aim of the research is to find out if applied orientation and mobility programme as an adapted teaching strategy will giv...
ABSTRACT The present study was designed to determine the influence of achievement motivation and demographic characteristics on academic performance of nomadic Fulani primary school girls’ in Adamawa State. The survey and expost-facto designs were employed for the study which used a sample of 300 primary six nomadic Fulani girls from 38 schools. Random sampling technique was used to select the sample. The instruments for data collection were Achievement Motivation Rating Scale (AMRS) and N...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to diagnose students’ performance in Mathematics in senior secondary school in Katsina Metropolis. The study centered its review of related literature on task factor on gender difference in mathematics performance, environmental factor as well as process factors in teaching mathematics. Average, percentage and measures of relationship were used as approach to data analysis. The study revealed that task factors, process factors, environmental factors and proc...
ABSTRACT Motivation of paraprofessionals is pertinent for excellent service delivery in the library since they constitute the first point of call to any patron who enters the library. The study therefore looks at motivation of paraprofessionals in selected academic libraries in Ghana. The study used a case study approach that involved unstructured interviews to solicit information from 24 paraprofessional library staff at Valley View University (VVU) and University of Professionals Studies, A...
ABSTRACT The incidence of dysfunctional family is not only a social problem in individual countries, but has become a global issue which can deprive many adolescents the opportunity to be psychologically fit and also excel in all areas of life even to the national productivity and progress. The central theme of this study was to investigate the impact of dysfunctional families on the psychological wellbeing of the adolescent with the moderation effect of social support. The study used a cross...
ABSTRACT This study is an effort to improve teacher performance by employing the clinical supervision concept to reverse lackluster teacher performance in the school of study. The purposes of the study were to determine; if the instructional practices of the teachers’ changed; if the teachers cultivated the habits of responding positively to supervision and if teacher confidence level rose over the five months study period. The research methods used to answer questions were both qualitative...
ABSTRACT Distance Education has been institutionalised in the public universities in Ghana and women who enrol in the programmes have to combine their family roles with work and their academic pursuits. This study sought to find out the challenges and coping strategies of student mothers of the College of Distance Education of the University of Cape Coast (CoDE, UCC). The study employed the descriptive survey. A questionnaire in the Likert-type scale was used to collect data from 175 student ...
ABSTRACT Divorce, single parenting and issues associated with parental status on an adolescent’s wellbeing specifically, adolescents’ depression and self-esteem has been on an increase worldwide and Ghana is no exception. This study was aimed at examining the influence of parental status on depression and self esteem of adolescents in Ghana after noticing that adolescents going through formal education face many challenging situations as a result of diverse marital issues of their parents...
ABSTRACT This study is a field survey. Its concerns have been to find out the work of the extension services department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in Ponyentanga area in promoting Sorghum cultivation. The study looked at the way farmers in the Ponyentanga area were equipped and influenced with the relevant knowledge, information and attitude towards improved farming practices. The study critically examined the method of educating farmers by frontline extension officers in...