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The Politics of Educational Reform in Ghana

Part of the Critical Studies of Education Book Series (volume 7)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93761-8

ISBN: 978-3-319-93760-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 10, 2018

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Chapter 1The Politics of Educational Policy Change

Aziabah, Maxwell A.

Pages: 1 –32

[The emergence in the early 1980s of the new institutional approaches in the study of institutional development and change and how they influence social and political outcomes have offered social scientists new perspectives in accounting for structural stability in institutional patterns. The new...
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Chapter 2Ghana’s School Policy, the Structure of Education and the State-Economy Configuration

Aziabah, Maxwell A.

Pages: 33 –42

[The education system in Ghana is organized into three progressive levels in accordance with the 2008 Education Act (Act 778), namely, basic education, second cycle education and tertiary education. A constitutional injunction requires of government to provide access to free compulsory universal...
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Chapter 3Educational Reforms in Ghana

Aziabah, Maxwell A.

Pages: 43 –51

[Formal education and changes to same predate the current nation-state Ghana. To eliminate the problem of infinite regress and to establish a critical juncture, the discussion is limited to the period after independence. Application of historical institutionalism reveals evidence of structural...
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Chapter 4Educational Policy Change and Historical Institutional Analysis: Concept and Theory

Aziabah, Maxwell A.

Pages: 53 –82

[The relevance of a theoretical and conceptual bases of any empirical research cannot be overemphasized. The current study has been situated within the framework of historical institutionalism. A path dependence approach – a key theoretical model in historical institutionalism – augmented by a...
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Chapter 5Analysis and Presentation of Results

Aziabah, Maxwell A.

Pages: 83 –152

[To account for structural durability in Ghana’s secondary school system, one requires a causal narrative that is context sensitive, analytically driven and logically coherent. Achieving such a goal requires empirical data that lends grist to causal narratives. A Qualitative Content Analysis...

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