The Politics of Educational Reform in Ghana - Understanding Structural Persistence in the Secondary School System

This book comprises six 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. 

List of contents

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.

Summary

This book comprises six 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. 

Product details

• Authors: Maxwell A Aziabah, Maxwell A. Aziabah
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319937601
• ISBN: 978-3-31-993760-1
• No. of pages: 165
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 243 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 434 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 165 p. 15 illus.
• Series: Critical Studies of Education; Critical Studies of Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Pädagogik, Soziologie, B, Geschichte der Pädagogik, Educational Policy, Sociology of Education, Education, History of Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational strategies & policy, Social research & statistics, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Comparative education, International education, Educational sociology, Ethnicity in Education, Education—History