Learning to Teach in Ghana: An Evaluation of Curriculum Delivery (CIE, 2000, 51 p.)

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Multi-Site Teacher Education Research Project (MUSTER)

Abstract

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Overview

1.2 Initial Teacher Training in Ghana: Critique of Focus and Purpose

1.3 Purpose of this Study

Chapter 2: Methodology

2.1 Approach

2.2 Sample

2.3 Research Questions

Chapter 3: Profile of Exiting Teacher Trainees

3.1 Who is doing the learning?

3.2 Prior Teaching Experience

3.3 Family and Socio-economic background

3.4 Discussion

Chapter 4: Curriculum Issues

4.1 Analysis of the Survey Results

Chapter 5: Teaching Practice

5.1 Teaching Practice: General Organisation

5.2 Teaching Practice: The Survey Findings

Chapter 6: Teaching Practice: The Student Teachers' Experiences

6.1 Gaps between Theory and Practice

6.2 Teaching Practice Supervision: Tensions and Contradictions

Chapter 7: Student Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching and the Profession

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Perceptions of Professional Practice

7.3 Images of the Teaching Profession

Chapter 8: Curriculum Delivery: Practices, Perceptions and Shaping Factors

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Methodology

8.3 Teaching Subject Content

8.4 Teaching learning to teach

8.5 Curriculum Delivery: Factors influencing Practice

8.6 College Organisation for Staffing and Workloads

Chapter 9: Conclusions

9.1 Reflections on Learning to Teach in Ghana

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