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Consulting the things of the spirits: Evidencing unseen presences in missionary collections
Museum Anthropology, Volume 48, Issue 1, Spring 2025.Abstract Contributing to current efforts to grapple with museums' colonial legacies, this article takes the question of evidence as an entry point to unlock the multi‐layered make‐up of African spiritual artifacts in missionary collections. Focussing on Dutch and German missionary collections of legbawo and dzokawo from the Ewe region in Ghana and Togo,
Marleen de Witte, Birgit Meyer
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Mathematics and science teachers’ cultural beliefs about giftedness and gifted students’ education in Ghana [PDF]
This study delves into the cultural perspectives surrounding gifted education practices in Ghana, focusing on 10 junior high school classroom mathematics and science teachers.
Allotey, Gladys Ami +4 more
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Ghanaian Graphic Design Education: Redefining Western Influences and Reclaiming Indigenous Cultures
International Journal of Art &Design Education, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 80-97, February 2025.Abstract In this paper, we explore the evolution of graphic design and its education in Ghana. Graphic design emerged in Ghana through colonisation, which influenced the perceptions of traditional art forms. We review the tensions between Western and indigenous trends in Ghanaian art and design and explore existing pedagogical philosophies in Ghana's ...
Frank Mensah Bonsu +3 more
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Indigenous Genres on Digital Keyboards: Vitalizing Choral Worship in the Methodist Church Ghana [PDF]
, 2023 This research examines digital keyboard workstations for choral accompaniment in the Methodist Church Ghana from an Ethnodoxological perspective. The Methodist Church Ghana has a strong choral tradition and is known for using indigenous African musical ...
Essilfie, George Mensah
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Health &Social Care in the Community, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.The global population is ageing at an unprecedented rate, with Africa experiencing the fastest growth in the number of older persons (aged 60 and above), followed by Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia. Like other developing nations, such as Zimbabwe, Namibia, India and Indonesia, Ghana is witnessing a rapid rise in its ageing population.
Joseph Kojo Oduro, Qing-Wei Chen
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Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 1208-1225, December 2024.Abstract Stigma reduces the status of individuals from full social acceptance, motivating the stigmatized person to find ways to cope with the perceived threat as much as possible. The present study explored the experience of dealing with a mental illness daily within the public space.
Sebastian Gyamfi +3 more
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Dancing black Christianity: revealing African American and Ghanaian cultural identity through movement in Christian worship [PDF]
, 2007 While Christianity has been with African-Americans in the United States for so long that it has become a “native” faith, the foreign imposition of Christianity is still fresh in other countries, such as Ghana. This means that over the past few centuries,
Mosley, Sydnie L.
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Rehabilitation of post‐stroke aphasia in Ghana
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 1308-1321, July/August 2024.Abstract Background Aphasia, a common consequence of stroke, which affects both communication and social functioning, and in turn, quality of life, is on the rise due to increases in stroke prevalence and survival rate. The rehabilitation of post‐stroke aphasia primarily falls within the purview of speech‐language pathology and research supports the ...
Keren Kankam, Laura Murray
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Citizenship Education and Embodied ways of Knowing: What can be learned from the voices of Ghanaian youth in schooling and education? [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines Ghanaian youth voices about issues of personal and moral character development through the teachings of local embodied ways of knowing and how such ways of knowing further inform our understanding of discipline and the socialization
Sefa Dei, George J., Simmons, Marlon
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“Entanglement” as a concept in recent research on Christian missions in the South Pacific and Africa
History Compass, Volume 22, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract This article provides a short overview of ‘entanglement’ in recent histories of mission, examining what distinguishes it from earlier conceptualisations of cross‐cultural encounters. This article locates the emergence of the term in the social sciences and global histories of empire, and explores its current influence in studies of Christian ...
Kate Tilson
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