Leslie Casely-Hayford
Biographic Data
| ID | 1401260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Casely-Hayford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Casely-Hayford |
| SIGNATURE | CASELY-HAYFORD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yahoo (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Parents and community agency in early childhood education and development in rural Ghana
Introduction This study addresses a critical gap in Ghana's efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.2 by exploring how indigenous, play-oriented pedagogies support children's holistic development across 12 rural communities in northern and southern Ghana. Despite Ghana's early childhood education (ECE) policy, which emphasises scaling evidence-based best practices to strengthen the capacity of parents and communities to deliver EC…
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition
Ghana’s Free Senior High School policy, which was introduced in 2017, is the most prominent and comprehensive free secondary education policy in the region. It is therefore an ideal case for studying the effects of free secondary education on students, families and schools. We conducted an in-depth qualitative study of students, parents and school leaders’ perspectives on and experiences with the policy. The findings show that stakeholders genera…
Secondary School Fee Abolition in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this study, we take stock of fee-free secondary education (FSE) initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa and review their impact on equitable access and achievement, as well as their cost-effectiveness. We begin by discussing the theoretical arguments for and against the abolition of secondary school fees. Second, we examine aggregate statistics on enrollment and transition rates and find that primary school completion remains far from universal in m…
Post-colonial dilemmas in the construction of Ghanaian citizenship education
The impact of education in shaping lives
There is increasing recognition of the importance of focusing on people with disabilities (PWDs) in international efforts aimed at poverty alleviation. While universal education has been central to these efforts, the specific and additional needs of children with disabilities are often overlooked in policies and programmes. In order to gain a nuanced appreciation of the lives of young PWDs in a Ghanaian context, this paper draws on research condu…
Schooling and domestic transitions
Transitions to adulthood are usually defined by markers such as leaving school, starting a first job, leaving the parental home, forming a first union, marrying and having a first child. Youth policy remains strongly influenced by these linear transitions, and by the metaphor of a ‘pathway’ from school to work and adulthood, taking little account of poverty, and the significance of micro-social changes within personal relations, which in many rur…
Reaching the underserved with complementary education
Between 1995–06 and 2005–06, more than 85,000 children between the ages of 8 and 14 years participated in a complementary education programme in rural areas of northern Ghana. School for Life, a non-profit organisation, provides nine months of instruction in the children's spoken language. An impact assessment of the programme demonstrates that complementary education programmes are able to help children attain basic literacy in their mother tong…
Schooling and domestic transitions
Transitions to adulthood are usually defined by markers such as leaving school, starting a first job, leaving the parental home, forming a first union, marrying and having a first child. Youth policy remains strongly influenced by these linear transitions, and by the metaphor of a ‘pathway’ from school to work and adulthood, taking little account of poverty, and the significance of micro-social changes within personal relations, which in many rur…
Post-colonial dilemmas in the construction of Ghanaian citizenship education
The impact of education in shaping lives
There is increasing recognition of the importance of focusing on people with disabilities (PWDs) in international efforts aimed at poverty alleviation. While universal education has been central to these efforts, the specific and additional needs of children with disabilities are often overlooked in policies and programmes. In order to gain a nuanced appreciation of the lives of young PWDs in a Ghanaian context, this paper draws on research condu…
Reaching the underserved with complementary education
Between 1995–06 and 2005–06, more than 85,000 children between the ages of 8 and 14 years participated in a complementary education programme in rural areas of northern Ghana. School for Life, a non-profit organisation, provides nine months of instruction in the children's spoken language. An impact assessment of the programme demonstrates that complementary education programmes are able to help children attain basic literacy in their mother tong…
Reaching the underserved with complementary education
Between 1995–06 and 2005–06, more than 85,000 children between the ages of 8 and 14 years participated in a complementary education programme in rural areas of northern Ghana. School for Life, a non-profit organisation, provides nine months of instruction in the children's spoken language. An impact assessment of the programme demonstrates that complementary education programmes are able to help children attain basic literacy in their mother tong…
Schooling and domestic transitions
Transitions to adulthood are usually defined by markers such as leaving school, starting a first job, leaving the parental home, forming a first union, marrying and having a first child. Youth policy remains strongly influenced by these linear transitions, and by the metaphor of a ‘pathway’ from school to work and adulthood, taking little account of poverty, and the significance of micro-social changes within personal relations, which in many rur…
The impact of education in shaping lives
There is increasing recognition of the importance of focusing on people with disabilities (PWDs) in international efforts aimed at poverty alleviation. While universal education has been central to these efforts, the specific and additional needs of children with disabilities are often overlooked in policies and programmes. In order to gain a nuanced appreciation of the lives of young PWDs in a Ghanaian context, this paper draws on research condu…
Post-colonial dilemmas in the construction of Ghanaian citizenship education
Secondary School Fee Abolition in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this study, we take stock of fee-free secondary education (FSE) initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa and review their impact on equitable access and achievement, as well as their cost-effectiveness. We begin by discussing the theoretical arguments for and against the abolition of secondary school fees. Second, we examine aggregate statistics on enrollment and transition rates and find that primary school completion remains far from universal in m…
The intended and unintended effects of secondary school fee abolition
Ghana’s Free Senior High School policy, which was introduced in 2017, is the most prominent and comprehensive free secondary education policy in the region. It is therefore an ideal case for studying the effects of free secondary education on students, families and schools. We conducted an in-depth qualitative study of students, parents and school leaders’ perspectives on and experiences with the policy. The findings show that stakeholders genera…
Parents and community agency in early childhood education and development in rural Ghana
Introduction This study addresses a critical gap in Ghana's efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.2 by exploring how indigenous, play-oriented pedagogies support children's holistic development across 12 rural communities in northern and southern Ghana. Despite Ghana's early childhood education (ECE) policy, which emphasises scaling evidence-based best practices to strengthen the capacity of parents and communities to deliver EC…
Political science (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Social science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works)