Reaching the underserved with complementary education
Lessons from Ghana's state and non-state sectors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3887282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie Casely-Hayford (Yahoo (United Kingdom), corresponding author), Ash Hartwell |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 527-539 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development in Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09614521003763152 |
| OpenAlex | W1986986150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 3 |
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 tongue within a shorter timeframe and more cost-effectively than formal state primary-school systems can
Basic education · Economic growth · Economics · Formal education · Literacy · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Primary education · Rural area · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Universal Primary Education · Education Systems and Policy · Medicine · Multilingual Education and Policy · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
Political Factors in the Growth of Social Assistance
The Gendered Politics of Securing Inclusive Development
Governing Natural Resources for Inclusive Development
The Political Determinants of Economic Growth
Exploring the Politics of Inclusive Development
Ethnicity, State Capacity, and Development
The Politics—and Process—of Rule of Law Systems in Developmental States
China in Africa
The Politics of What Works for the Poor in Public Expenditure and Taxation
The Politics of Aid Revisited
The Politics of What Works in Service Delivery
Socio-cultural and economic determinants of girl child education in Ashaiman municipality of the Greater Accra region of Ghana
Cultural wealth as pedagogy
How do national regulations for publicly subsidized private schools work in a decentralized context
Using educational transitions to estimate learning loss due to Covid-19 school closures
Empowering parents and promoting school and teacher accountability and responsiveness
Under/misrepresentation of Ghanaian Languages in the Literature Curriculum in Senior High Schools
Exploring the role of evidence in the government's adoption of Ghana's Complementary Basic Education program
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |