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.
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
Maxwell A. Aziabah
Educational development Education System school policy Governmental System Ghanaian economy Current School System Educational Policy in Ghana West Africs Education Emerging Democracies Academic Bias