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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299521503321

Autore

Aziabah Maxwell A

Titolo

The Politics of Educational Reform in Ghana : Understanding Structural Persistence in the Secondary School System / / by Maxwell A. Aziabah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

9783319937618

3319937618

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 165 p. 15 illus.)

Collana

Critical Studies of Education, , 2543-0475 ; ; 7

Disciplina

370.116

370.9

Soggetti

International education

Comparative education

Education and state

Educational sociology

Education - History

International and Comparative Education

Educational Policy and Politics

Sociology of Education

History of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 The Politics of Educational Policy Change An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Ghana's School Policy, The Structure of Education and the State-Economy Configuration -- Chapter 3 Educational Reforms in Ghana -- Chapter 4 Educational Policy Change and Historical Institutional Analysis: Concept and Theory -- Chapter 5 Analysis and Presentation of Results.

Sommario/riassunto

This book comprises five main chapters and addresses the core research question: How can the endurance of academic bias in Ghana’s secondary education system be explained in the context of educational reform versus change of government concurrence? Six sub-questions have subsequently been derived from the core research question,



enabling a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the subject matter of investigation. The manuscript adopts an historical institutionalism approach, combining path dependency with partisan theory in explicating structural persistence in the secondary school system in Ghana. A case study methodological design procedure has been employed in the investigation of three episodes of educational reform, anchored on qualitative content analysis as the main data reduction mechanism. .