Cultural Issues in Ghana’s Educational Reform Program
Examines the cultural dimensions of Ghana’s educational reform programme, considering how local values, social expectations and cultural contexts influence the design, interpretation and implementation of education policy.
Between Rhetoric and Practice: The Salience of Culture in Ghana’s Educational Reform
Examines the role of culture in Ghana’s educational reform, exploring the gap between policy rhetoric and implementation and considering how cultural assumptions, values and local realities influence educational policy and practice.
Representation and Politics of Location: Insider Scholarship Revisited
Revisits debates about insider scholarship, representation and the politics of location, examining how a researcher’s social position and relationship to the people and contexts being studied shape knowledge production and interpretation.
Identity and Knowledge Production in the 4th Generation
Reflects on identity and knowledge production among a new generation of African scholars, considering how intellectual location, experience and institutional context shape the production and interpretation of knowledge.
Expressions of Personal Development: A Study of a Poverty Reduction Program for Women in the Afram Plains of Ghana
Examines how women participating in a poverty reduction programme in Ghana’s Afram Plains understood and expressed personal development, with attention to the ways programme participation shaped their aspirations, experiences and perceptions of change.