EDTE 417 — Introduction to Education Policy
Teacher Education · University of Ghana
This course is designed to introduce students to educational policy debates, with a particular focus on the major issues and challenges facing policymakers in Ghana and the West African sub-region. It will examine standards-based, market-driven, professionally-led, and networked models of reform, looking at their theories of change, implementation challenges, and the critiques levelled against these approaches. Topics include policy analysis, history of schooling; the school systems today; thinking about power; growth, critical thinking; achieving social justice.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- EDTE 206 — Adolescent Literacy Development
- EDTE 306 — Teaching English Clause Structure and Pronunciation
- EDTE 307 — English Language Curriculum Design
- EDTE 308 — Second Language Learning
- EDTE 400 — Project Work
- EDTE 401 — Internship
- EDTE 402 — Teaching Mathematics with Technology
- EDTE 403 — Action research
- EDTE 404 — Teacher as a Professional
- EDTE 405 — Techniques and Principles of Second Language Teaching
- EDTE 406 — Seminar in Mathematics Education
- EDTE 407 — Designing Science Learning Environments
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).