Department of Adult Education and Human Resource Studies
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Item Economic and social development. In The United Nations: Working to Reduce the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Human Rights, Development and the Environment. United Nations Office in Geneva(Information Service Press and External Relations Office, 2009) Amponsah, S.Item The early adolescents and HIV/AIDS prevention: a campaign against’HIV’infections(Ghana Journal of Literacy and Adult Education, 2006) Benneh, C.O.Item The Performance of Facilitators in the Functional Literacy Programme of the Upper East Region of Ghana(Ghana Journal of Development Studies, 2006-11) Adjei, F.G.Item This Place is better than my Home’: Anecdotes on child fosterage and child domestic work in three Districts in Northern Ghana(Ghana Social Science Journal, 2009) Owusu, G.A.; Adjei, F.G.Fosterage in West Africa is peculiar and has key benefits. This study, which w as conducted in three districts in the Upper East and Northern regions of Ghana, uses qualitative in - depth interviews to fill some esse n tial gaps in the study of fosterage. Unlike most studies on the phenomenon, ours provide perspectives from both the fost er children and the receiving parents, and employs cultural relativism to analyze the data. The findings supported several past studies on the subject -- fosterage was being done as a social se r- vice within the context of the extended family mainly and nearly all the foster children were girls. Crisis fo s terage was predominant. Although both children and foster parents/guardians seemed to have some challenges, all the children said that they fared better in the foster homes, compared to their biological homes. This was not without financial strains to the foster parents. We found an eclectic mixture of previous explan a tory frameworks proposed for child fosterage in the sub - region. Policy implications of our findings are given.Item Unsustainable Use of the Environment in Rural Communities: A Study of the Bush Fire Menace of the Mo Traditional Areas of North Western Ghana(Ghana Journal of Literacy and Adult Education, 2006) Oduro-Mensah, D.Item Education for Integrated Rural Development: Case of the IAE-CODE Project of the Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana(Ghana Journal of Literacy and Adult Education, 2007-07) Oduro-Mensah, D.Item Promoting Prisons Education in Ghana Through Distance Learning(International Journal of Higher Education Research (IJHER), 2009) Badu-Nyarko, S.; Oduro-Mensah, D.Item The Challenge of Demographic Transition of the Elderly in Ghana from Youth to Old age(Journal of Literacy and Adult Education, 2009) Agyemang, F.; Oduro-Mensah, D.Item Adult Education for Community Development: Case of the Forikrom Community Adult Education and Development Programme(Journal of Literacy and Adult Education, 2009) Oduro-Mensah, D.Item Akanism and Hebrewism: Akan-Mesopotamian Links and Earlier Civilization(Accra: Woeli Publishing Services, 2007) Oduro-Mensah, D.