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The Politics of Educational Reform in Ghana

Understanding Structural Persistence in the Secondary School System

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Authors:
  1. Maxwell A. Aziabah

    1. Department of Community Development, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

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  • Offers a rigorous and comprehensive account of the genesis, evolution and subsequent structural durability that characterizes the secondary school system in Ghana
  • It insights how politics contribute to institutional flux and reform processes relative to education in developing countries
  • Shares how policy decisions can take entire institutional systems down tracks never envisaged

Part of the book series: Critical Studies of Education (CSOE, volume 7)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The Politics of Educational Policy Change

    • Maxwell A. Aziabah
    Pages 1-32

  3. Ghana’s School Policy, the Structure of Education and the State-Economy Configuration

    • Maxwell A. Aziabah
    Pages 33-42

  4. Educational Reforms in Ghana

    • Maxwell A. Aziabah
    Pages 43-51

  5. Educational Policy Change and Historical Institutional Analysis: Concept and Theory

    • Maxwell A. Aziabah
    Pages 53-82

  6. Analysis and Presentation of Results

    • Maxwell A. Aziabah
    Pages 83-152

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 153-165
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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. 

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  • Department of Community Development, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

    Maxwell A. Aziabah

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