Ahmed Bawa Kuyini
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 78000 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ahmed Bawa Kuyini |
| PRENOMES | Ahmed Bawa |
| SOBRENOME | Kuyini |
| ASSINATURA | KUYINI A B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1083-8862 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Norwegian teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, attitudes and concerns about implementing inclusive education
The study employed a survey questionnaire to examine Norwegian teachers’ attitudes, self-efficacy and concerns about implementing inclusive education in lower secondary and upper secondary schools. Participants were 99 Norwegian general education teachers and 7 special education counterparts who responded to various scales of attitudes (ATIES), self-efficacy and concerns about implementing inclusive education, and the data were analysed using a v…
Educational Accountability in Inclusive Schools
Accountability in education is an important legal, professional and ethical consideration for all teachers in their practice, as it leads to deep reflections about educational outcomes for their students. However, in respect of inclusive education, a constellation of implementation barriers has led to difficulties with understanding and ensuring accountability of outcomes for students with special educational needs (SENs). Additionally, there is …
Extending Climate Change Action to Persons with Disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa
Persons with disabilities have consistently been excluded from deliberations on climate change actions since the beginning of the global debate on this crucial issue. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has the harshest weather conditions worldwide, highlighting the need to understand the factors that could impact awareness of climate change among persons with sensory impairments. Guided by Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour, this stu…
School principals’ expectations of teachers to implement inclusive education practices and teachers’ understanding of the expectations in Ghana
The “TOP” drivers of academics’ adoption of ChatGPT in teaching
Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors that affect educators’ adoption of ChatGPT for teaching activities. Design/methodology/approach Using the TOP framework, this research uses a survey methodology, gathering data from 479 higher education staff across various universities and countries. Findings This study reveals that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, artificial intelligence (AI) learning and anxiety indir…
Tell me a story
Implementation of Social Inclusion to Support Refugee Students’ Well-Being in Victoria, Australia
This paper explores social inclusion approaches implemented by ten secondary schools in Victoria, Australia, to support refugee students’ well-being, as articulated in their policies, reports, and other published documents. Using an exploratory, qualitative research design, we found that all schools employed a holistic approach to implementing social inclusion programs for refugee students. This paper reports on the best practices and unique exam…
A Culturally Humble Approach to Designing a Sports-Based Youth Development Program With African-Australian Community
This article draws on the concept of cultural humility, to describe and analyze a decolonizing approach to co-designing a primary prevention basketball program for young African-Australian people in Melbourne, Australia. We explore the potential for genuine collaboration and power-sharing with a culturally diverse community through collaboratively developing the co-design process and resultant program design. This article highlights the central r…
Advocacy as a Human Rights Enabler for Parents in the Child Protection System
Parents and guardians in child protection systems are in unequal power relationships with child protection practitioners. This relationship is experienced as exclusionary or even oppressive by many parents and guardians. For families and communities in the child protection system who experience intersectional discrimination and disadvantage, such as people with intellectual disabilities and First Nations people, this unequal relationship and subs…
Norwegian teachers
This study explored what teaching competencies teachers in Norwegian Junior high and Senior high schools perceived as important to their teaching in inclusive education (IE) classrooms. The participants (N-206) responded to a 15-item survey Perceived Competencies for Inclusive Teaching Scale focussed on competencies, and one open-ended question about the resources that will support effective teaching. The results were analysed using descriptive s…
An evaluation of the Free Senior High School Policy in Ghana
Based on 65 interviews and secondary information, this study evaluated the programme, process and political dimensions of the Ghana Free Senior High School Education (SHS) Policy. The evidence from the data showed that the programme and its political dimensions were emphasised to the neglect of the process dimension. Effectiveness, one of the criteria in the programme dimension, was somewhat stressed. The remaining five criteria, including Equity…
Social work students’ attitudes, self-efficacy, and concerns about clients with developmental and psychiatric disabilities in the UAE
This study examined the attitudes, self-efficacy beliefs, and concerns of social work students in relation to working with clients with developmental disabilities and psychiatric (mental health) issues in the UAE. A four-part survey questionnaire—comprising Participants’ Background Information, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Concerns about working with clients—was used to collect data. The data were analyzed using Descriptive statistics, t-tests, …
Botswana teachers
The implementation of inclusive education continues to pose challenges to teachers world-wide and Botswana is no exception. This study aimed to explore the teaching competencies general education teachers in Botswana primary schools perceived as important to their teaching in inclusive classrooms. Using a quantitative research approach, 116 general education primary school teachers completed a 14-Item questionnaire titled Perceived Competencies f…
Teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, attitudes and concerns about implementing inclusive education in Ghana
This study explored teacher self-efficacy, attitudes and concerns about implementing inclusive education in Ghana, using a four-part survey questionnaire comprising Teachers’ Background Information, Self-Efficacy About Inclusive Education, Attitudes Toward Inclusive Education and Concerns About Inclusive Education. Data obtained from 134 primary school teachers in two regions were analysed using Descriptive statistics, t-Tests, ANOVA and Correlat…
African refugee spouses’ experience of resettlement in regional Australia
This study examined the experiences of eight African refugees resettled in regional Australia. Informed by the notion/idea of intersectionality and others, this study utilised interviews to capture the role of gender, culture, contextual realities of Australia and the participants’ family relations to analyse experiences of gender conflict. The study found that among other things, financial pressures, self-development and differences in power rel…
Consumer participation at Specialist Homelessness Services
This study in the state of New South Wales, Australia, explored what Specialist Homelessness Services are currently implementing in regard to consumer participation, what is working and what barriers to consumer participation have been encountered by both service users and providers. Three staff members, one consumer volunteer and 10 homeless persons from three services were interviewed. The interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. The s…
Understanding and Applying Research Paradigms in Educational Contexts
The concept of research paradigm is one that many higher degree research students, and even early career researchers, find elusive to articulate, and challenging to apply in their research proposals. Adopting an ethnographic and hermeneutic methodology, the present paper draws upon our experiences as lecturers in Research Methods over many years, and upon pertinent literature to explain the meaning of research paradigm. The paper elucidates the k…
Ghanaian teachers
The study aimed to explore the teaching competencies teachers in Ghana perceived as important to their teaching in inclusive classrooms. Using a quantitative research approach, 163 regular school teachers from two geographic regions of Ghana completed a 14-item questionnaire titled Perceived Competencies for Inclusive Teaching Scale and an open-ended question about the supportive resources they require to be effective in their classrooms. Descrip…
Social Work Student Views on Palliative Care Learning Resources
Many social workers are expected to work with individuals and families who are dealing with life-limiting illnesses, yet during their university education they may not have been exposed to materials that address issues related to death and dying. The Social Work Department of University of New England in Armidale, Australia designed and delivered a palliative care teaching and learning session using publicly funded online materials. Themes emergi…
Education and Health Care Policies in Ghana
Education and health care policies in Ghana since independence have been universalist in approach providing free universal health care and free basic and tertiary education until the early 1980s. Precipitated primarily by a severe drought, stagnant economic growth, mismanagement, and political instability, Ghana undertook major economic reforms with prodding from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in a bid to salvage the economy. Thes…
Settlement Experiences of African Refugees
Cast in the framework of social capital theory, this research used case studies to investigate the settlement experiences of African migrants in Armidale, Tamworth and Coffs Harbour in Australia. Analysis of individual ( n = 29) and one focus group interview data revealed that most migrants expressed some satisfaction with service provision in the areas of initial settlement support and the work of local community organizations. Problems still re…
Ghana's education reform 2007
Bhutanese stakeholders’ perceptions about multi-grade teaching as a strategy for achieving quality universal primary education
Traditional kinship foster care in northern Ghana
Surveys were employed to explore the experiences of children in care and their carers about traditional fostering. They also examined the perspectives of randomly selected adults in the community about the practice of traditional foster care in the Tamale area of northern Ghana. The 74 participants responded to closed‐ and open‐ended interview questions about traditional foster care. Frequencies and thematic grouping of qualitative responses show…
Understanding and Applying Research Paradigms in Educational Contexts
The concept of research paradigm is one that many higher degree research students, and even early career researchers, find elusive to articulate, and challenging to apply in their research proposals. Adopting an ethnographic and hermeneutic methodology, the present paper draws upon our experiences as lecturers in Research Methods over many years, and upon pertinent literature to explain the meaning of research paradigm. The paper elucidates the k…
Traditional kinship foster care in northern Ghana
Surveys were employed to explore the experiences of children in care and their carers about traditional fostering. They also examined the perspectives of randomly selected adults in the community about the practice of traditional foster care in the Tamale area of northern Ghana. The 74 participants responded to closed‐ and open‐ended interview questions about traditional foster care. Frequencies and thematic grouping of qualitative responses show…
Consumer participation at Specialist Homelessness Services
This study in the state of New South Wales, Australia, explored what Specialist Homelessness Services are currently implementing in regard to consumer participation, what is working and what barriers to consumer participation have been encountered by both service users and providers. Three staff members, one consumer volunteer and 10 homeless persons from three services were interviewed. The interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. The s…
Ghanaian teachers
The study aimed to explore the teaching competencies teachers in Ghana perceived as important to their teaching in inclusive classrooms. Using a quantitative research approach, 163 regular school teachers from two geographic regions of Ghana completed a 14-item questionnaire titled Perceived Competencies for Inclusive Teaching Scale and an open-ended question about the supportive resources they require to be effective in their classrooms. Descrip…
African refugee spouses’ experience of resettlement in regional Australia
This study examined the experiences of eight African refugees resettled in regional Australia. Informed by the notion/idea of intersectionality and others, this study utilised interviews to capture the role of gender, culture, contextual realities of Australia and the participants’ family relations to analyse experiences of gender conflict. The study found that among other things, financial pressures, self-development and differences in power rel…
Education and Health Care Policies in Ghana
Education and health care policies in Ghana since independence have been universalist in approach providing free universal health care and free basic and tertiary education until the early 1980s. Precipitated primarily by a severe drought, stagnant economic growth, mismanagement, and political instability, Ghana undertook major economic reforms with prodding from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in a bid to salvage the economy. Thes…
Ghana's education reform 2007
Botswana teachers
The implementation of inclusive education continues to pose challenges to teachers world-wide and Botswana is no exception. This study aimed to explore the teaching competencies general education teachers in Botswana primary schools perceived as important to their teaching in inclusive classrooms. Using a quantitative research approach, 116 general education primary school teachers completed a 14-Item questionnaire titled Perceived Competencies f…
A Culturally Humble Approach to Designing a Sports-Based Youth Development Program With African-Australian Community
This article draws on the concept of cultural humility, to describe and analyze a decolonizing approach to co-designing a primary prevention basketball program for young African-Australian people in Melbourne, Australia. We explore the potential for genuine collaboration and power-sharing with a culturally diverse community through collaboratively developing the co-design process and resultant program design. This article highlights the central r…
Advocacy as a Human Rights Enabler for Parents in the Child Protection System
Parents and guardians in child protection systems are in unequal power relationships with child protection practitioners. This relationship is experienced as exclusionary or even oppressive by many parents and guardians. For families and communities in the child protection system who experience intersectional discrimination and disadvantage, such as people with intellectual disabilities and First Nations people, this unequal relationship and subs…
Norwegian teachers
This study explored what teaching competencies teachers in Norwegian Junior high and Senior high schools perceived as important to their teaching in inclusive education (IE) classrooms. The participants (N-206) responded to a 15-item survey Perceived Competencies for Inclusive Teaching Scale focussed on competencies, and one open-ended question about the resources that will support effective teaching. The results were analysed using descriptive s…
Teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, attitudes and concerns about implementing inclusive education in Ghana
This study explored teacher self-efficacy, attitudes and concerns about implementing inclusive education in Ghana, using a four-part survey questionnaire comprising Teachers’ Background Information, Self-Efficacy About Inclusive Education, Attitudes Toward Inclusive Education and Concerns About Inclusive Education. Data obtained from 134 primary school teachers in two regions were analysed using Descriptive statistics, t-Tests, ANOVA and Correlat…
Settlement Experiences of African Refugees
Cast in the framework of social capital theory, this research used case studies to investigate the settlement experiences of African migrants in Armidale, Tamworth and Coffs Harbour in Australia. Analysis of individual ( n = 29) and one focus group interview data revealed that most migrants expressed some satisfaction with service provision in the areas of initial settlement support and the work of local community organizations. Problems still re…
Traditional kinship foster care in northern Ghana
Surveys were employed to explore the experiences of children in care and their carers about traditional fostering. They also examined the perspectives of randomly selected adults in the community about the practice of traditional foster care in the Tamale area of northern Ghana. The 74 participants responded to closed‐ and open‐ended interview questions about traditional foster care. Frequencies and thematic grouping of qualitative responses show…
Bhutanese stakeholders’ perceptions about multi-grade teaching as a strategy for achieving quality universal primary education
Ghana's education reform 2007
Settlement Experiences of African Refugees
Cast in the framework of social capital theory, this research used case studies to investigate the settlement experiences of African migrants in Armidale, Tamworth and Coffs Harbour in Australia. Analysis of individual ( n = 29) and one focus group interview data revealed that most migrants expressed some satisfaction with service provision in the areas of initial settlement support and the work of local community organizations. Problems still re…
Social Work Student Views on Palliative Care Learning Resources
Many social workers are expected to work with individuals and families who are dealing with life-limiting illnesses, yet during their university education they may not have been exposed to materials that address issues related to death and dying. The Social Work Department of University of New England in Armidale, Australia designed and delivered a palliative care teaching and learning session using publicly funded online materials. Themes emergi…
Education and Health Care Policies in Ghana
Education and health care policies in Ghana since independence have been universalist in approach providing free universal health care and free basic and tertiary education until the early 1980s. Precipitated primarily by a severe drought, stagnant economic growth, mismanagement, and political instability, Ghana undertook major economic reforms with prodding from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in a bid to salvage the economy. Thes…
Ghanaian teachers
The study aimed to explore the teaching competencies teachers in Ghana perceived as important to their teaching in inclusive classrooms. Using a quantitative research approach, 163 regular school teachers from two geographic regions of Ghana completed a 14-item questionnaire titled Perceived Competencies for Inclusive Teaching Scale and an open-ended question about the supportive resources they require to be effective in their classrooms. Descrip…
Consumer participation at Specialist Homelessness Services
This study in the state of New South Wales, Australia, explored what Specialist Homelessness Services are currently implementing in regard to consumer participation, what is working and what barriers to consumer participation have been encountered by both service users and providers. Three staff members, one consumer volunteer and 10 homeless persons from three services were interviewed. The interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. The s…
Understanding and Applying Research Paradigms in Educational Contexts
The concept of research paradigm is one that many higher degree research students, and even early career researchers, find elusive to articulate, and challenging to apply in their research proposals. Adopting an ethnographic and hermeneutic methodology, the present paper draws upon our experiences as lecturers in Research Methods over many years, and upon pertinent literature to explain the meaning of research paradigm. The paper elucidates the k…
Teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, attitudes and concerns about implementing inclusive education in Ghana
This study explored teacher self-efficacy, attitudes and concerns about implementing inclusive education in Ghana, using a four-part survey questionnaire comprising Teachers’ Background Information, Self-Efficacy About Inclusive Education, Attitudes Toward Inclusive Education and Concerns About Inclusive Education. Data obtained from 134 primary school teachers in two regions were analysed using Descriptive statistics, t-Tests, ANOVA and Correlat…
African refugee spouses’ experience of resettlement in regional Australia
This study examined the experiences of eight African refugees resettled in regional Australia. Informed by the notion/idea of intersectionality and others, this study utilised interviews to capture the role of gender, culture, contextual realities of Australia and the participants’ family relations to analyse experiences of gender conflict. The study found that among other things, financial pressures, self-development and differences in power rel…
An evaluation of the Free Senior High School Policy in Ghana
Based on 65 interviews and secondary information, this study evaluated the programme, process and political dimensions of the Ghana Free Senior High School Education (SHS) Policy. The evidence from the data showed that the programme and its political dimensions were emphasised to the neglect of the process dimension. Effectiveness, one of the criteria in the programme dimension, was somewhat stressed. The remaining five criteria, including Equity…
Social work students’ attitudes, self-efficacy, and concerns about clients with developmental and psychiatric disabilities in the UAE
This study examined the attitudes, self-efficacy beliefs, and concerns of social work students in relation to working with clients with developmental disabilities and psychiatric (mental health) issues in the UAE. A four-part survey questionnaire—comprising Participants’ Background Information, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Concerns about working with clients—was used to collect data. The data were analyzed using Descriptive statistics, t-tests, …
Botswana teachers
The implementation of inclusive education continues to pose challenges to teachers world-wide and Botswana is no exception. This study aimed to explore the teaching competencies general education teachers in Botswana primary schools perceived as important to their teaching in inclusive classrooms. Using a quantitative research approach, 116 general education primary school teachers completed a 14-Item questionnaire titled Perceived Competencies f…
Advocacy as a Human Rights Enabler for Parents in the Child Protection System
Parents and guardians in child protection systems are in unequal power relationships with child protection practitioners. This relationship is experienced as exclusionary or even oppressive by many parents and guardians. For families and communities in the child protection system who experience intersectional discrimination and disadvantage, such as people with intellectual disabilities and First Nations people, this unequal relationship and subs…
Norwegian teachers
This study explored what teaching competencies teachers in Norwegian Junior high and Senior high schools perceived as important to their teaching in inclusive education (IE) classrooms. The participants (N-206) responded to a 15-item survey Perceived Competencies for Inclusive Teaching Scale focussed on competencies, and one open-ended question about the resources that will support effective teaching. The results were analysed using descriptive s…
Implementation of Social Inclusion to Support Refugee Students’ Well-Being in Victoria, Australia
This paper explores social inclusion approaches implemented by ten secondary schools in Victoria, Australia, to support refugee students’ well-being, as articulated in their policies, reports, and other published documents. Using an exploratory, qualitative research design, we found that all schools employed a holistic approach to implementing social inclusion programs for refugee students. This paper reports on the best practices and unique exam…
A Culturally Humble Approach to Designing a Sports-Based Youth Development Program With African-Australian Community
This article draws on the concept of cultural humility, to describe and analyze a decolonizing approach to co-designing a primary prevention basketball program for young African-Australian people in Melbourne, Australia. We explore the potential for genuine collaboration and power-sharing with a culturally diverse community through collaboratively developing the co-design process and resultant program design. This article highlights the central r…
Educational Accountability in Inclusive Schools
Accountability in education is an important legal, professional and ethical consideration for all teachers in their practice, as it leads to deep reflections about educational outcomes for their students. However, in respect of inclusive education, a constellation of implementation barriers has led to difficulties with understanding and ensuring accountability of outcomes for students with special educational needs (SENs). Additionally, there is …
Extending Climate Change Action to Persons with Disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa
Persons with disabilities have consistently been excluded from deliberations on climate change actions since the beginning of the global debate on this crucial issue. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has the harshest weather conditions worldwide, highlighting the need to understand the factors that could impact awareness of climate change among persons with sensory impairments. Guided by Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour, this stu…
School principals’ expectations of teachers to implement inclusive education practices and teachers’ understanding of the expectations in Ghana
The “TOP” drivers of academics’ adoption of ChatGPT in teaching
Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors that affect educators’ adoption of ChatGPT for teaching activities. Design/methodology/approach Using the TOP framework, this research uses a survey methodology, gathering data from 479 higher education staff across various universities and countries. Findings This study reveals that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, artificial intelligence (AI) learning and anxiety indir…
Tell me a story
Norwegian teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, attitudes and concerns about implementing inclusive education
The study employed a survey questionnaire to examine Norwegian teachers’ attitudes, self-efficacy and concerns about implementing inclusive education in lower secondary and upper secondary schools. Participants were 99 Norwegian general education teachers and 7 special education counterparts who responded to various scales of attitudes (ATIES), self-efficacy and concerns about implementing inclusive education, and the data were analysed using a v…
Political science (12 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Pedagogy (9 obras) · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion (7 obras) · Medical education (6 obras) · Public relations (6 obras) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (6 obras) · Descriptive statistics (5 obras)