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B.A. Education

• Students choose any 2 courses (6 credits) of the UGRC

Second Semester

• Students choose any 1 course (3 credits) of the UGRC Second Semester

• Students choose any 1 course (3 credits) of the UGRC

Second Semester

SINGLE MAJOR: Minimum of 24 credits by the end of the year. This should be made up of THREE core courses and at least ONE elective offered in each semester.

COMBINED MAJOR: Minimum of 15 credits by the end of the year.  MINOR: Minimum of 6 credits by the end of the year.

Second  Semester

SINGLE MAJOR: Minimum of 24 credits by the end of the year. This should be made up of THREE core courses and at least ONE elective offered in each semester.

COMBINED MAJOR: Minimum of 15 credits by the end of the year.  

Course Descriptions

EDTE 101:           Introduction to Education

This course explores the role of education in the world. Students will be introduced to the implications of schooling in the Ghanaian context, West African sub-region, and Africa as a whole. In addition to readings and discussions, there will be opportunities for hands-on experience and interactions with students in schools. Topics to be addressed include principles of learning; the role of schools in student achievement, and the changing nature of literacy in the world. .

EDTE 102:           Social Foundations of Education in Ghana

This course introduces students to education in Ghana as a social process and a social institution. It will explore classical and contemporary theories in the sociology of education. Particular emphasis will be placed on examining the relationship between educational institutions and processes and the reproduction of social inequality; and the competing visions of educational reform that have been offered in recent years. Topics to be addressed include the social functions of education; social foundations of schooling within the Ghanaian context; the school as a formal organisation and social system; social factors affecting the educational process.

EDTE 201:           Philosophical Foundations of Education

This course examines some major theories of the meaning and function of education and its role in reshaping society. The course addresses how historical influences, settings and ideas, have influenced and continue to influence education today. Topics to be studied include seminal works by Plato, Aristotle, Dewey, and Piaget, idealism in education, realism in education, pragmatism, postmodernism and behaviourism in education.

EDTE 202:           Psychology of Human Learning

This course provides an overview of the fundamental theoretical concepts, phenomena, and principles of learning in different contexts and for adolescents in particular. These include reinforcement, Pavlovian conditioning and retention/forgetting, problem solving, reward and punishment. Traditional views of learning, biological and cognitive constraints, the role of animal models, and the utility of learning theory will also be addressed.

EDTE 203:           Introduction to Education and Development 

This introductory course will focus on theories underpinning perspectives on development including modernisation, domination and exploitation, and as change for the better. It will pay particular attention to the strengths and limitations of these theories in relation to education and how they help explain development and underdevelopment and the current status of key issues in education and development. Topics include development theory; aid and development; economics of development, and poverty and development.

EDTE 204:           Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Senior High Schools

This course will examine a variety of methods, materials, activities, and content important to conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas such as geometry, algebra, probability and statistics at the senior high school level, implications for lesson development, differentiated instruction and evaluating student learning.

EDTE 206:           Adolescent Literacy Development

This course examines effective ways to address the literacy needs of adolescent learners. Topics to be studied include adolescent learner characteristics, stages of literacy development, baseline assessment techniques and its impact on instruction, interactive comprehension engagement, dynamic vocabulary explorations as well as the role and value of technology in multiple literacies in the 21^st century.

EDTE 208:           Education in a Multilingual Society

This course examines how educational practice in school settings in the Ghanaian context influence and are influenced by the local language within the school context. Topics to be explored include language use and positioning, family dynamics within school contexts, influences on other languages within the same context.

EDTE 212:           Explaining Science

This course provides an analysis of science from a philosophical and historical perspective. It will explain what science is, what it does, and how it works. Writings by Popper, Kuhn and Lakatos will be covered and related topics such as logical positivism, empiricism, conjectures, refutations, normal science, and rationalism will be discussed.

EDTE 301:           Quantitative Research Methods in Education

This course provides an introduction to quantitative methods in education. It emphasises how educationists use simple quantitative techniques to investigate research questions coming from education theory, prior research and applied problems. The course also introduces statistical software for simple quantitative analysis. Topics include scale and sample types, inferential statistics, normal curve, relations, and interpreting test scores.

EDTE 302:           Qualitative Research Methods in Education

This course introduces students to basic qualitative research methods within the educational context. The types, uses, theoretical underpinnings, and relevant examples of qualitative research in different educational settings will be discussed. The course will discuss the traditions and influences of educational research such as grounded theory, audio and video data collection and analysis, focus group discussions, and ethnographic analysis.  

EDTE 303:           Assessment and Evaluation in Senior High Schools

This course examines the development and use of standardised psychological and educational tests in general educational use. Emphasis will be placed on the criteria for critical evaluation. Students will be introduced to the different forms and features of school assessment at the senior high school level. Students will explore the differences between testing, measurement and evaluation and will construct different types of assessment tools designed for the different cognitive levels.

EDTE 304:           Reflective Practice in Education 

This course is developed on the premise that teaching is a practice to be studied. It is designed to expose students to the different protocols for studying teaching. It introduces a basic model of reflective practice and then explores several further models relevant to teaching in the lifelong learning sector, offering guidance on the application of each model in practice. Protocols such as Tuning, Friends, Thinking Through a Lesson, Video Clubs, Bansho, Lesson Study and Critical Friends will be discussed and used. Other topics include democratic classrooms, critical reflection as a tool for personal development, and understanding classroom dynamics.

EDTE 305:           Mathematics Curriculum and Classroom Practice

This course uses the Ghanaian senior high school Mathematics curriculum documents as a focus example to explore the general guidelines, issues, and other foundations for curriculum development at the senior high school level.  Topics to be addressed include strands, objectives and evidence for their attainment, instructional strategies, and formative evaluation procedures for each subject, curriculum articulation and instructional improvement.

EDTE 306:           Teaching English Clause Structure and Pronunciation

The course examines the various English clauses and punctuation marks. It seeks to equip students with relevant knowledge and skills that will enable them to use English clauses and punctuation marks with ease. It also exposes students to relevant techniques and strategies for teaching English clauses and punctuation marks. Topics include finite and non-finite clauses, verbless clauses, relative clauses adjectival clauses, nominal clauses, adverbial clauses, coordination, subordination, and punctuation.

EDTE 307:           English Language Curriculum Design

The course reviews the major steps involved in the curriculum design process and provides students with tools and techniques for analysing and assessing language syllabuses. The description of the steps will be done at a general level so that it can be applied in a wide range of situations. Topics include environment analysis, needs analysis, content sequencing, approaches to curriculum design, adopting and adapting an existing textbook, and curriculum change.

EDTE 308:           Second Language Learning 

This course surveys prominent theories and current research findings in the field of Second Language Learning. Emphasis is given to the ways these theories and research shape pedagogical practices in the language classroom. Major theoretical concepts and methods of analysis in the field are discussed. Topics include behaviourism and contrastive analysis,strategies, and personality factors influencing SLA are investigated.

EDTE 309:           Introduction to Special Needs Education

This course will explore aspects of psychology relevant to the education of adolescents and adults with learning problems or learning disabilities. Topics such as diagnosis, remediation, integration, and types of support within schools will be addressed. Development of Individualised Educational Plans (IEPs) will be a core component of this course.

EDTE 311:          Development Education in the Era of Globalisation

The course will examine concepts and meaning of globalisation and the influences of globalisation on education, particularly in low-income countries.  Students will examine how international and regional assessments of education performance are influencing policies and practices of education worldwide. The course content will include Education for All (EFA); global analysis of educational access and quality; International aid and education development in sub-Sahara Africa; the role of non-governmental organisations and post Millennium Development Goals. Students will also examine how globalisation agendas on education influence national policies on education, and the biases involved in international assessments.

EDTE 312:           Problem Solving in Mathematics Education

Alternative approaches to solving mathematical problems and incorporating problem solving into senior high school mathematics teaching. This course teaches mathematics in the connected sense-making way that future teachers need and is consistent with the national curriculum requirements as well as other recent national and international reports on school mathematics. The course also prepares students in the selection, appraisal, and uses of problems in the mathematics classroom.

EDTE 313:            Introduction to Technology in Education

This course is designed to introduce students to different types of instructional technologies that can be effectively used in teaching secondary school students. This hands-on class will be focused on web-based applications and tools used in teaching at the basic and senior high school levels. Students will experiment with the different tools such as geogebra, Google apps for education, Teaching with Technology video library, Power of Minus Ten: Bone, Virtual heart, TD Brain, Sakai, TedTalks, Kahn Academy, and Essential Skeleton.

EDTE 315:           Integrated Science Curriculum and Classroom Practice

This course critically examines how integrated science is reflected in the school curriculum and recent curriculum initiatives and developments in Ghana and other international contexts. Topics to be treated include formal and informal science education, science and literacy connections, assessing science understanding and demonstrations, science laboratory practices and safety, the impact of policy on science education, the transition from primary to secondary school, girls in science, language and communication in the classroom, world science and local science.

EDTE 316:           Education for Sustainable Development

This course is designed to prepare students to implement environmental education opportunities in formal and non-formal education settings. It will provide students with the skills, knowledge, and inclinations to make well-informed choices and exercise the rights and responsibilities of members of a community. Some of the topics to be addressed in this course include history and philosophy of environmental education, environmental laws and regulations, curriculum integration and environmental education teaching methodologies.

EDTE 318:           Video Games and Learning

This course will utilise a variety of video games as texts for studying about learning in the digital age.It provides a critical perspective on learning, interactive media and games in the Ghanaian and other contexts. The underlying assumptions about and implications of social positioning in games and their relationship to teaching and learning will also be addressed. Topics to be studied include learning and identity, situated meaning and learning, the social mind, cognitive consequences and the value added approach.

EDTE 319:           Research Methods in Education

This course is designed to introduce prospective teachers to different qualitative and quantitative research tools used in education. It explores research methodologies by studying research interest. Topics to be studied include research design such as case-study, correlational, and experimental, and quantitative methods such as descriptive and inferential data analysis, measures of central tendency and their implications within diverse educational contexts.

EDTE 322:           Teaching Senior High School Integrated Science

This course focuses on scientific teaching practices that mirror authentic scientific practices. It utilises available research on how students learn science to discuss relevant case studies, appraise student work, and learn about existing best practices as well as a variety of teaching practices to teach authentic science within the Ghanaian context. Topics to be covered include determining and adapting appropriate teaching methods, promoting enquiry, fostering dialogue, meeting national standards, using technology to promote learning, and assessing students’ learning.

EDTE 323:           School Assessment and Evaluation in Ghana

This course investigates the development and use of standardised psychological and educational tests in general educational use in the Ghanaian context. Students will be introduced to the different forms and features of school assessment at the basic level. Students will explore the concepts of testing, measurement, evaluation, functional assessment and will construct different types of assessment tools designed for the different cognitive levels at the basic level.

EDTE 326:           Integrated Media Applications for Instruction

This course is designed to provide students with the relevant ICT knowledge and skills of teaching. It provides students with diverse uses of media applications in the instructional environment. Emphasis will be placed on proper curriculum integration based on sound curriculum design principles and professional standards within the changing Ghanaian context.

EDTE 328:           Micro-Teaching

This practicum course is designed to provide students with a supervised opportunity to engage in peer teaching. It will simulate authentic teaching environments and students will rehearse different dimensions of teaching practice. It involves classroom techniques, instructional procedures, and teacher/learner behaviors that emerge when a variety of senior high school subjects are taught.

EDTE 400:          Project Work

This course is spread over two semesters. Students will conduct an independent research-based study on a topic relevant to education and approved by the Department. The thesis will have no more than 10,000 words.  Students will be expected to appropriately apply their understanding of research methods within their unique areas of study.

EDTE 401:           Internship

This course introduces students to a Ghanaian school, educational setting, or NGO where observation, enquiry, and participation in the processes of teaching and learning or other educational endeavours within the Ghanaian context are possible. It provides opportunities for the development of practical skills including instructional strategies, teaching practices or educational assessment within the education industry as well as for enquiry into the contexts of classrooms and schools and the improvement of education more broadly.

EDTE 402:           Teaching Mathematics with Technology

This course examines mathematics teaching in a technology-intensive environment. Students will utilize a variety of applications, websites, games, scientific calculators, computers, and other mobile technologies to explore different mathematical concepts. Topics to be covered include history and types of technology and the boundaries of use. Software and applications such as Geogebra, MATLAB, Maple, graphing calculator, iFormulas, NumberLine,  Sudoku, and virtual manipulatives.

EDTE 403:           Action research

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and protocols to generate and evaluate research relevant to various areas of professional education in their own contexts. Students produce a major action research and writing project designed to address an identified need in their local school context. The size and scope of the research will be codetermined by the student and supervisor.

EDTE 404:          Teacher as a Professional

This course will explore the notion of a teacher as a professional, and the extent to which the teaching profession is viewed as a vocation or occupation requiring advanced education and training and involving intellectual skills. Topics to be covered include different notions of professionalism in teaching, evaluation of teacher professionalism in the Ghanaian context, teacher management and accountability, lessons for school improvement.

EDTE 405:           Techniques and Principles of Second Language Teaching

The course discusses the major language teaching methods and focuses on uncovering the thoughts that guide language teachers in the course of teaching the syllabus contents. It introduces students to a variety of language teaching techniques. Methods such as the classical, direct, and audio-lingual will be covered. Other language teaching methods that will be treated include Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Community Language Learning (CLL), Total Physical Response (TPR), and the Silent Way.

EDTE 406:           Seminar in Mathematics Education  action research projects. Students will utilise available tools of presentation to report to the class and to the members of the School of Education and Leadership and the College as a whole. A written report will be due at the end of the semester.

EDTE 407:           Designing Science Learning Environments

This course will focus on issues related to the design of scientific problems within scientific learning environments. Students will also be exposed to various strategies of teaching and learning science though enquiry. Concepts of design, affordances and challenges of different scientific learning environments will be discussed with particular reference to the Ghanaian context.

EDTE 408:           Seminar in English Education

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EDTE 409:           Multimedia Tools in Education

variety of multimedia tools in instruction and explore the use of software applications in the teaching of specific content. It will focus on the roles of ICT in education, how ICT influences the access, generation, evaluation and utilisation of information in multimedia learning environments.

EDTE 411:            Law, Ethics, and Regulations in Schools

This course is an introductory course in education law and ethics in different contexts. Topics to be studied include education law and statutes, codes, regulations and their application in preuniversity school contexts, intended and unintended consequences of school policies for senior high school students, practical applications of the law for different populations of students will be also addressed.

EDTE 412:           Seminar in Education

Students will utilise available tools of presentation to report to the class and to the members of the School of Education and Leadership and the College as a whole. A written report will be due at the end of the semester.

EDTE 413:           Gender and Curriculum

This course offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary introduction to thinking about school curricula, policies, and practices as gendered. It extends the identification of the problems to examine various efforts to create gender-sensitive curricula and programs. Topics to be covered include concepts and theories of gender within the curriculum, learning organisations and relationships among body, identity, knowledge, language and power.

EDTE 414:           Dance and Music in Education

This course introduces students to dance and music as repositories of indigenous knowledge. It will look at dance and music as windows to explore the culture of different ethnic groups in Ghana. Topics to be covered include African conception of human nature, African epistemology, definitions of African music and dance, modern/contemporary African music and dance.

EDTE 415:           General Pedagogy

This course introduces students to the general theories of teaching in the Ghanaian school context. Students will study instructional methods of different subject areas such as Mathematics, English Language and Science. Topics to be studied include characteristics of effective and intentional teaching; student diversity, social justice, planning for instruction; creating effective lessons using a variety of approaches and technologies; classroom management; assessment of student learning; and professional development.

EDTE 416:           Teaching Gifted Students

This course examines the nature and needs of giftedness within the Ghanaian society. Students will explore topics such as the psychological, personal and social factors affecting identification and development of gifted children and youth, implications for education, counselling and guidance, learning theory and styles, creativity and metacognition.

EDTE 417:           Introduction to Education Policy

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.

EDTE 418:           African Indigenous Education 

This course provides a deeper understanding of African indigenous worldviews and an appreciation of how this knowledge can enhance teaching, learning, and research. Students will examine philosophical views shared by different African groups while honouring a diversity of identities, culture, language, and geographic locations. It will also promote an understanding and appreciation of different ethnic perspectives and explore strategies for integrating this knowledge into the work of educators and researchers. The course content includes indigenous cognitive styles, values and ethics, African traditional teachings and indigenous methodologies.

EDTE 422:           Seminar in Science Education

This seminar series will showcase research findings from prospective integrated science to the class and to the members of the School of Education and Leadership and the College as a whole. A written report will be due at the end of the semester.