John Kwame Boateng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3573273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Kwame Boateng |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Kwame |
| FAMILY NAME | Boateng |
| SIGNATURE | BOATENG J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3934-986X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 12 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Examining the influence of Ghanaian coastal communities’ cultural practices on the cultural rights of small-scale fishers: A focus on livelihood impacts
This study investigates the impact of cultural practices within Ghanaian coastal communities on the cultural rights of small-scale fishers, with a focus on livelihood dynamics. Employing a qualitative approach, data was collected through focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, in four coastal communities: Apam, Elmina, Takoradi, and Axim. The sample comprised 56 participants, including men, women, and youth purposively sampled for their …
Reconciling conflicts between cultural beliefs, and human rights standards in coastal communities of Ghana: Preserving cultural rights and promoting sustainable fishing practices
this study explores conflicts stemming from the intersection of cultural practices, beliefs, and international human rights standards within coastal communities.through rigorous focus group discussions, it examines the interplay between culture and human rights, identifying colonial legacies, economic disparities, and environmental challenges as primary sources of tension.concrete examples, such as disputes over fishing access and clashes with re…
Managing learning outcomes with technology in Ghanaian higher education
The Internet and Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in general have significantly transformed the world’s economy and social landscape, enhancing the lives of individuals, promoting business growth, and stimulating economic development. Not having access to the Internet and the appropriate technology comes with a high probability of constrained prospects of quality education, social mobility, employment opportunities, and other factors…
Compensation payment for fisherfolk during closed-season fishing: Lessons from small-scale fisherfolk in Ghana
This study contributes to the literature on marine conservation, fisheries management, and coastal development. The study investigated the distribution mechanism of government -led compensation payment schemes for small-scale coastal fisherfolk in Ghana during the closed season. We also sought to explore the perception of fisherfolk concerning equity and fairness in the distribution of the compensation scheme. The empirical data consisted of 220 …
Mobile learning behaviour of university students in Ghana
This study was planned to investigate the effect of distance education students’ attitudinal, social, and control beliefs on their mobile learning usage at the University of Ghana and the University of Education, Winneba. The Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour (DTPB) was modified to explain how students’ attitude, subjective norms, and behavioural control of mobile learning influenced their current mobile learning usage. The study used an exp…
Influence of adult learners’ self-direction on group learning
The purpose of the study is to present the group learning behaviours of adult students at a public university in Ghana. The study setting is the University of Ghana, specifically the Department of Adult Education and Human Resource Studies. Adults engage in continuous learning for purposes of personal and professional development. The study draws from the concept of self-directed learning and constructivist theories, examining the relationship be…
Using Africa’s past to promote change toward safer alternatives for food packaging in Accra
This study aimed at promoting attitude change among street vendors and their customers by exposing them to a communication intervention. The respondents were exposed to digitized images of ancient pottery and materials used to meet daily needs of food storage in Africa’s past, followed by a narration of how these materials were used in the past that could be used in the present day to package food. Respondents reflected on their experiences in th…
Gender politics of Sultan Hamengkubuwono x in the succession of Yogyakarta palace
The aristocratic theory is essential in the kingdoms’ political system because some countries use monarchical leaderships in the modern era. However, no research has been conducted on the aristocratic theory to examines succession in kingdoms without male descendants. This research aims to review the aristocratic theory in the succession practice in the Yogyakarta Palace. This research employed a qualitative approach. Data was collected using int…
China Quest for global governance overhaul
The international framework in which China’s economically unprecedented development is highly institutionalized, fragmented, issue-specific, and driven by the US and its allies. With the Chinese-led initiative, including the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), China is now an institution-builder positioned to cement Beijing’s leading global governance role. In this respect, under current presidencie…
Two centuries of Greek governments from a social network analysis perspective
Two hundred years after the Greek Revolution (1821), a large number of different administrations (governments) comprising of an even larger number of members of the implementing authority have served the Greek State. In this paper, we study these entities from a Social Analytic Perspective view. We create networks of actors (ministers) over the above-mentioned time period and perform network analysis in the global, average, and local levels, toge…
Challenges in Nigeria’s education sector and the migration of Nigerian postgraduate students to South African universities
Education remains the weapon for upward stratification, social and economic development of any nation but the Nigerian government has not shown enough commitment to the educational sector. The manifestation could be seen in the shrinking government funding on education, decaying and lack of infrastructure in Nigeria’s universities which have led to demoralization of the academia. A major consequence of this is the frustration experienced by postg…
Deradicalization program in Indonesia radicalizing the radicals
“Deradicalisation” refers to the process through which members of radical Islamic groups abandon their commitment to extreme ideologies and beliefs that could potentially bring them to organised violence. Since the mid-2000s, Indonesia has witnessed an increasing numbers of deradicalization programmes and activities. This article focuses on how so-called deradicalisation interventions intended to normalise Islamic radicals in Indonesia has instea…
Has anything changed with illegitimate electoral financing and political power contestation in Nigeria
This paper examines the monetization of politics through the manipulation of the loopholes in the electoral funding architecture of Nigeria. It evaluates whether the ceiling placed on individual and group donations to candidates and political parties by Nigeria’s Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) was adhered to in mobilizing election funds in recent presidential elections. In other words, this paper investigates whether election funding in Nigeria’…
The limitation of voting rights for people with permanent mental disabilities in Indonesia: A debate between reasonable and unreasonable rights
Voting rights are fundamental rights under Article 28D Paragraphs (1) and (3) as well as Article 28I of the. However, the Indonesian has excluded people with permanent mental disabilities from the right to vote. This article aims to carefully examine whether the Indonesian Constitutional Court’s decision violates the voting rights of people with permanent mental disabilities. The study used hermeneutic and qualitative content analysis to interpre…
Women and Ethiopian politics: Political leaders’ attitude and views on women’s effectiveness
In the assertion of democracy, good governance, and development, there needs to be a fair and equitable representation of all members of the community in the political process of the country. Besides, women’s involvement in political leadership is imperative for the prevalence of democracy and good governance in the country. Accordingly, women’s participation in the legislative and executive leadership of the country can be determined by the atti…
Exploring Philippine Presidents’ speeches: A sentiment analysis and topic modeling approach
This study analyzed the annual obligatory and traditional speeches, referred to as State of the Nation Address (SONA), of the 13 past Philippine presidents. The study determined the sentiments, as well as the emergent topics, expressed in these materials. It is found that these SONAs generally expressed positive sentiments while the lowest negative sentiment, on the other hand, was during the martial law period in 1974. Also, it is shown that “de…
Village public innovations during Covid19 pandemic in rural areas: Phenomena in Madura, Indonesia
This research was driven by the innovation kebijakan publik and adaptation process to new habits during the COVID19 pandemic in villages in Sampang Regency. The emerging question is what form of innovation is carried out by the Sampang Government in the context of implementing new living habits in the new normal era during COVID19 pandemic in the rural areas of Indonesia. This study used public sector innovation as the primary theory and from the…
Enabling Urban Social Farming: The need for radical green infrastructure in the city
With the global population set to reach 9.8 billion by 2050, there are concerns that health services are beginning to be stretched beyond working limits, particularly in the Global North, where many nations face ageing populations and similar obstacles. One suggested radical method to tackle these issues would be to provide access to Green Infrastructure (GI) interventions, including the development of social farms, particularly within urban area…
Factors influencing implementation of bylaws on sustainable crop intensification: Evidence from potatoes in southwestern Uganda
The study examined the factors for the successful implementation of bylaws on sustainable crop intensification. The study used the new institutionalism theory to examine the implementation of bylaws in the potato cropping system in southwestern Uganda. A mixed model featuring both qualitative and quantitative approaches was used in the study. This involved analysis of primary data. The primary sources were key informants, focus group discussions,…
Togetherness in Difference: Perceived Personal Discrimination and Acculturation Preferences among Internal Migrants in a Poor Urban Community in Accra
This paper assesses the relative effects of acculturation preferences (assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization) on migrants' perception of acceptability in James Town, a traditional urban neighborhood in Accra, Ghana. There is a paucity of academic work on the relationship between migrants' acculturation inclinations and their assessment of the hosts' attitude towards them in Ghana. Cognizant of the fluidity of acculturation st…
Acculturation inclinations and subjective health status of internal migrants in James Town, an urban slum settlement in Accra
Asymmetry in an uneven place: Migrants’ lifestyles, social capital, and self-rated health status in James Town, Accra
Women's access to health care in Ghana: Effects of education, residence, lineage and self-determination
Women's physical and psychological access to health care was analyzed using the 2003 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS), a nationally representative study for monitoring population and health in Ghana. Female respondents from the 2133 cases in the couple's data set were used in this study. Women's level of education was positively related to physical but not to psychological access to health care. Residing in an urban area was positively …
Application of the verbal autopsy during a clinical trial
Togetherness in Difference: Perceived Personal Discrimination and Acculturation Preferences among Internal Migrants in a Poor Urban Community in Accra
This paper assesses the relative effects of acculturation preferences (assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization) on migrants' perception of acceptability in James Town, a traditional urban neighborhood in Accra, Ghana. There is a paucity of academic work on the relationship between migrants' acculturation inclinations and their assessment of the hosts' attitude towards them in Ghana. Cognizant of the fluidity of acculturation st…
Asymmetry in an uneven place: Migrants’ lifestyles, social capital, and self-rated health status in James Town, Accra
Application of the verbal autopsy during a clinical trial
Acculturation inclinations and subjective health status of internal migrants in James Town, an urban slum settlement in Accra
Women's access to health care in Ghana: Effects of education, residence, lineage and self-determination
Women's physical and psychological access to health care was analyzed using the 2003 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS), a nationally representative study for monitoring population and health in Ghana. Female respondents from the 2133 cases in the couple's data set were used in this study. Women's level of education was positively related to physical but not to psychological access to health care. Residing in an urban area was positively …
Application of the verbal autopsy during a clinical trial
Women's access to health care in Ghana: Effects of education, residence, lineage and self-determination
Women's physical and psychological access to health care was analyzed using the 2003 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS), a nationally representative study for monitoring population and health in Ghana. Female respondents from the 2133 cases in the couple's data set were used in this study. Women's level of education was positively related to physical but not to psychological access to health care. Residing in an urban area was positively …
Acculturation inclinations and subjective health status of internal migrants in James Town, an urban slum settlement in Accra
Asymmetry in an uneven place: Migrants’ lifestyles, social capital, and self-rated health status in James Town, Accra
Togetherness in Difference: Perceived Personal Discrimination and Acculturation Preferences among Internal Migrants in a Poor Urban Community in Accra
This paper assesses the relative effects of acculturation preferences (assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization) on migrants' perception of acceptability in James Town, a traditional urban neighborhood in Accra, Ghana. There is a paucity of academic work on the relationship between migrants' acculturation inclinations and their assessment of the hosts' attitude towards them in Ghana. Cognizant of the fluidity of acculturation st…
Factors influencing implementation of bylaws on sustainable crop intensification: Evidence from potatoes in southwestern Uganda
The study examined the factors for the successful implementation of bylaws on sustainable crop intensification. The study used the new institutionalism theory to examine the implementation of bylaws in the potato cropping system in southwestern Uganda. A mixed model featuring both qualitative and quantitative approaches was used in the study. This involved analysis of primary data. The primary sources were key informants, focus group discussions,…
Gender politics of Sultan Hamengkubuwono x in the succession of Yogyakarta palace
The aristocratic theory is essential in the kingdoms’ political system because some countries use monarchical leaderships in the modern era. However, no research has been conducted on the aristocratic theory to examines succession in kingdoms without male descendants. This research aims to review the aristocratic theory in the succession practice in the Yogyakarta Palace. This research employed a qualitative approach. Data was collected using int…
China Quest for global governance overhaul
The international framework in which China’s economically unprecedented development is highly institutionalized, fragmented, issue-specific, and driven by the US and its allies. With the Chinese-led initiative, including the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), China is now an institution-builder positioned to cement Beijing’s leading global governance role. In this respect, under current presidencie…
Two centuries of Greek governments from a social network analysis perspective
Two hundred years after the Greek Revolution (1821), a large number of different administrations (governments) comprising of an even larger number of members of the implementing authority have served the Greek State. In this paper, we study these entities from a Social Analytic Perspective view. We create networks of actors (ministers) over the above-mentioned time period and perform network analysis in the global, average, and local levels, toge…
Challenges in Nigeria’s education sector and the migration of Nigerian postgraduate students to South African universities
Education remains the weapon for upward stratification, social and economic development of any nation but the Nigerian government has not shown enough commitment to the educational sector. The manifestation could be seen in the shrinking government funding on education, decaying and lack of infrastructure in Nigeria’s universities which have led to demoralization of the academia. A major consequence of this is the frustration experienced by postg…
Deradicalization program in Indonesia radicalizing the radicals
“Deradicalisation” refers to the process through which members of radical Islamic groups abandon their commitment to extreme ideologies and beliefs that could potentially bring them to organised violence. Since the mid-2000s, Indonesia has witnessed an increasing numbers of deradicalization programmes and activities. This article focuses on how so-called deradicalisation interventions intended to normalise Islamic radicals in Indonesia has instea…
Has anything changed with illegitimate electoral financing and political power contestation in Nigeria
This paper examines the monetization of politics through the manipulation of the loopholes in the electoral funding architecture of Nigeria. It evaluates whether the ceiling placed on individual and group donations to candidates and political parties by Nigeria’s Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) was adhered to in mobilizing election funds in recent presidential elections. In other words, this paper investigates whether election funding in Nigeria’…
The limitation of voting rights for people with permanent mental disabilities in Indonesia: A debate between reasonable and unreasonable rights
Voting rights are fundamental rights under Article 28D Paragraphs (1) and (3) as well as Article 28I of the. However, the Indonesian has excluded people with permanent mental disabilities from the right to vote. This article aims to carefully examine whether the Indonesian Constitutional Court’s decision violates the voting rights of people with permanent mental disabilities. The study used hermeneutic and qualitative content analysis to interpre…
Women and Ethiopian politics: Political leaders’ attitude and views on women’s effectiveness
In the assertion of democracy, good governance, and development, there needs to be a fair and equitable representation of all members of the community in the political process of the country. Besides, women’s involvement in political leadership is imperative for the prevalence of democracy and good governance in the country. Accordingly, women’s participation in the legislative and executive leadership of the country can be determined by the atti…
Exploring Philippine Presidents’ speeches: A sentiment analysis and topic modeling approach
This study analyzed the annual obligatory and traditional speeches, referred to as State of the Nation Address (SONA), of the 13 past Philippine presidents. The study determined the sentiments, as well as the emergent topics, expressed in these materials. It is found that these SONAs generally expressed positive sentiments while the lowest negative sentiment, on the other hand, was during the martial law period in 1974. Also, it is shown that “de…
Village public innovations during Covid19 pandemic in rural areas: Phenomena in Madura, Indonesia
This research was driven by the innovation kebijakan publik and adaptation process to new habits during the COVID19 pandemic in villages in Sampang Regency. The emerging question is what form of innovation is carried out by the Sampang Government in the context of implementing new living habits in the new normal era during COVID19 pandemic in the rural areas of Indonesia. This study used public sector innovation as the primary theory and from the…
Enabling Urban Social Farming: The need for radical green infrastructure in the city
With the global population set to reach 9.8 billion by 2050, there are concerns that health services are beginning to be stretched beyond working limits, particularly in the Global North, where many nations face ageing populations and similar obstacles. One suggested radical method to tackle these issues would be to provide access to Green Infrastructure (GI) interventions, including the development of social farms, particularly within urban area…
Influence of adult learners’ self-direction on group learning
The purpose of the study is to present the group learning behaviours of adult students at a public university in Ghana. The study setting is the University of Ghana, specifically the Department of Adult Education and Human Resource Studies. Adults engage in continuous learning for purposes of personal and professional development. The study draws from the concept of self-directed learning and constructivist theories, examining the relationship be…
Using Africa’s past to promote change toward safer alternatives for food packaging in Accra
This study aimed at promoting attitude change among street vendors and their customers by exposing them to a communication intervention. The respondents were exposed to digitized images of ancient pottery and materials used to meet daily needs of food storage in Africa’s past, followed by a narration of how these materials were used in the past that could be used in the present day to package food. Respondents reflected on their experiences in th…
Managing learning outcomes with technology in Ghanaian higher education
The Internet and Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in general have significantly transformed the world’s economy and social landscape, enhancing the lives of individuals, promoting business growth, and stimulating economic development. Not having access to the Internet and the appropriate technology comes with a high probability of constrained prospects of quality education, social mobility, employment opportunities, and other factors…
Compensation payment for fisherfolk during closed-season fishing: Lessons from small-scale fisherfolk in Ghana
This study contributes to the literature on marine conservation, fisheries management, and coastal development. The study investigated the distribution mechanism of government -led compensation payment schemes for small-scale coastal fisherfolk in Ghana during the closed season. We also sought to explore the perception of fisherfolk concerning equity and fairness in the distribution of the compensation scheme. The empirical data consisted of 220 …
Mobile learning behaviour of university students in Ghana
This study was planned to investigate the effect of distance education students’ attitudinal, social, and control beliefs on their mobile learning usage at the University of Ghana and the University of Education, Winneba. The Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour (DTPB) was modified to explain how students’ attitude, subjective norms, and behavioural control of mobile learning influenced their current mobile learning usage. The study used an exp…
Reconciling conflicts between cultural beliefs, and human rights standards in coastal communities of Ghana: Preserving cultural rights and promoting sustainable fishing practices
this study explores conflicts stemming from the intersection of cultural practices, beliefs, and international human rights standards within coastal communities.through rigorous focus group discussions, it examines the interplay between culture and human rights, identifying colonial legacies, economic disparities, and environmental challenges as primary sources of tension.concrete examples, such as disputes over fishing access and clashes with re…
Examining the influence of Ghanaian coastal communities’ cultural practices on the cultural rights of small-scale fishers: A focus on livelihood impacts
This study investigates the impact of cultural practices within Ghanaian coastal communities on the cultural rights of small-scale fishers, with a focus on livelihood dynamics. Employing a qualitative approach, data was collected through focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, in four coastal communities: Apam, Elmina, Takoradi, and Axim. The sample comprised 56 participants, including men, women, and youth purposively sampled for their …
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