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Peace Mamle Yoko Tetteh

Peace Mamle Yoko Tetteh
Senior Lecturer
ptetteh@ug.edu.gh

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PROFILE

Dr Peace Mamle Tetteh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana. She is a Childhoods Scholar whose primary research interests relate to all aspects of children’s lives. Her research in childhoods studies has focused on early childhood development and education (ECDE), child labor (especially domestic labour), children’s rights, child sexual abuse, children’s play cultures, child marriage, child rights monitoring, innovative methods in childhoods research and constructions of childhoods in contemporary society. Her secondary interests are in Gender Studies, Women & Adolescent Reproductive Health, Advanced Qualitative Research, Ethics, and Visual Ethnographies and the Krobo Culture. She has collaborated with other scholars in these areas to research childcare arrangements of working mothers, gender and migration, gender and work, gender and reproductive health decisions, and cancer and fertility research.  She has over the years, collaborated with scholars from Ghana, the United Kingdom, USA, Germany, Switzerland to explore many aspects of children’s lives. She has more than two dozen publications and technical reports from these research activities.

Dr. Tetteh obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Ghana. She spent the final year of her PhD programme at the University of Bristol, UK as a Commonwealth Scholar. Her MPHIL Degree in Sociology was obtained from the University of Ghana, as was her B.A Degree in Sociology with the Study of Religions (First Class Honours).

Over the last two decades at the University of Ghana, Dr. Tetteh has been actively engaged in teaching several courses at both undergraduate and post graduate levels, and employing innovative pedagogies based on her teaching philosophy. She has supervised eleven PhD and nine MPhil candidates and 100+ undergraduate students. She has also examined more than a dozen PhD and MPhil theses from the Universities of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Cape Coast.

She has won grants for international research and networking projects from Ghana and UK- based funders and is increasingly being recognized over the last twelve years as a leading scholar in the field of global childhoods studies. Dr. Tetteh has consulted for several International and National non-governmental organizations such as UNICEF, PLAN, and International Organization for Migration (I.O.M) and served in several administrative, academic, and non-academic positions within and outside the University. She has served as the Ethics Advisory Chair and Mentor for Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and European Commission funded Projects. She serves on the Ethics Board of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR-IRB) (2011-date) and is an Executive Committee member of Unashamedly Ethical Ghana (UE) Power Group, SA.

Dr Tetteh is a former Presiding Member of the Lower Manya-Krobo Municipal Assembly (LMKMA) (2014-2016). She presided over the General Assembly Meetings; and was Head of the Audit Review Implementation Committee (ARIC) which reviewed the audit reports of the Assembly and ensured that the recommendations were implemented; Head of the Complaints Committee of the Assembly; Represented the Assembly at Regional and National Levels-e.g., Public Accounts Committee.

She is a Life Member of the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI) and a member of the National Executives of the Ladies of the Fellowship in charge of Hospital Outreaches. Dr. Tetteh is an old student of Anum Presbyterian Secondary School and Okuapeman School.

 

RSEARCH AREAS AND SPECIALISATION:

  • Sociology of Childhoods
  • Gender Studies
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Advanced Qualitative Research
  • Ethics

 

ONGOING RESEARCH/ WORKS IN PROGRESS (WIPs):

  • Makerspaces: Children Learning in West Africa, (with Karen Wells & Erdmute Alber). Routledge: Spaces of Childhoods and Youth Services.

This book draws on a two-year research project, Development Education in the Vernacular for Infants, and children in West Africa (DEVI: the Ewe word for child) to show how young children (up to ten years old) develop embodied knowledge of mathematical and scientific concepts through the observation of proficient others and collaborating with other children and adults in the making of artefacts.  This book is situated in a critique of the expansion of Early Childhood Development and Education models to the Global South that has arisen partly in reaction to the failure of Universal Primary Education to match learning outcomes to enrolment numbers, and partly by the grand claims of neuroscience about early brain development.

  • Bullying Victimization among Children among children in basic schools.
  • The Krobo Project

 

TEACHING: Core Courses Taught at Undergraduate Level:

  • Social Structure of Modern Ghana
  • Traditional Ghanaian Social Institutions
  • Social Psychology
  • Groups, Organizations, and the Individual
  • Foundations of Social Thought
  • Social Theory
  • Research Methods
  • Context of Development and Underdevelopment
  • Theories of Social Development
  • Social Anthropology
  • Societies and Cultures

 

Elective Courses taught at Undergraduate Level:

  • Sociology of the Family
  • Gender Studies
  • Culture and Development
  • Contemporary Sociological theories

 

Core Courses taught at Postgraduate Level

  • Advanced Qualitative Research
  • Research Methods
  • Research and Public Policy (CSPS)
  • MRPP-Advanced Qualitative Methods (CSPS)

 

Elective Courses Taught at Postgraduate Level

  • Social Life of Urban Communities
  • Transformations in Rural Communities
  • Gender Sociology

 

ACADEMIC AWARDS:

  • Commonwealth Scholar (tenured at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom) 2009-2010

 

  • Visiting Scholar - Institute of African Studies, University of Vienna-Austria (March 25- April 7, 2019), funded by the EU Erasmus+ Mobility for Teaching and Training Programme.  

 

SELECTED RESEARCH GRANTS:

British Academy (BA) Global Challenges Research Fund (2020-2022). Development and Education in the Vernacular for Infants and children (DEVI): a view from rural villages in West Africa. (In Collaboration with Professor Karen Wells, University of London, Birkbeck & Professor Erdmute Alber, University of Bayreuth, Germany. (281,000 GBP)

British Academy (BA)Global Challenges Research Fund (2019) ‘Foregrounding the Perspectives of West African Scholars in Childhood Studies Discourses’. In collaboration with Afua Twum Danso Imoh (Lead), University of Sheffield and Joshua Ariansola, Obafemi Awolowo University. (20,000GBP)

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/ RESEARCH OUTPUTS:

  • Documentary: Wells, K., Tetteh, P.M., Alber, E. (2022).

 ‘DEVI’: Weaving Knowledge-Development and Education in the Vernacular for Infants (DEVI) was a research project in West Africa that aimed to identify how families in rural communities support their children’s learning in the early years. The Project sought to identify how children’s cognitive development is accomplished and embedded in daily practices and interactions. The film tells the story of how children in villages where the DEVI research was conducted learn through making toys, transforming matter, weaving materials, and playing games. The documentary has since been screened in the UK, Ghana, Togo, and Senegal. The documentary was accepted into the Prestigious British Academy Summer showcase and was screened on loop for the three days of the showcase.

Co-Editor-Special Issue:

  • Searching for the Everyday in African Childhoods Journal of the British Academy, (2022). Afua Twum-Danso Imoh (University of Bristol, UK), Peace Mamle Tetteh (University of Ghana) & Georgina Yaa Oduro (University of Cape Coast, Ghana).

 

Book Review:

 

Book Chapters

  • Tetteh, P. M. (2023). ‘Children’s Play Cultures’ in the Handbook on Childhood and Global Development. (Eds.) Tatek Abebe, Anandini Dar & Karen Wells.  Routledge. forthcoming.

 

  • Tetteh, P.M. (2023). ‘Social Groups and Organizations’ in Social Change in a Global Era: Introduction to Sociology in Ghana. (Eds). Korbla Puplampu & Akosua Darkwah. Sub-Saharan Publishers. forthcoming.

 

  • Tetteh, P. M. (2013). ‘Negotiating Access and Preventing Risk in Child Domestic Labour Research in Ghana’ In K. te Riele and R. Brooks (eds) Encountering Ethical Challenges in Youth Research, Routledge, New York, and London. (pp. 71-83).

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Tetteh, P. M., Hiadzi, R. A., & Boafo, I.M. (2023). ‘This is what we call delayed humiliation’: Negotiating socio-cultural challenges in the use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) by couples with infertility problems in Urban Ghana. Ghana Social Science Journal, 20(2),15–25.

 

  • Boafo, I. M., Tetteh, P. M., & Hiadzi, R. A. (2023). Exploring prostate cancer screening among men in Accra using the health belief model. Ghana Medical Journal, 57(3), 226-233.http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gmj.v57i3.10

 

 

 

  • Hiadzi, R. A., Boafo, I. M., & Tetteh, P. M. (2021). ‘God helps those who help themselves’… religion and Assisted Reproductive Technology usage amongst urban Ghanaians. Plos one, 16(12), e0260346. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260346.

 

  • Markwei, U., & Tetteh, P. M. (2022). A study of alternative measures in resolving cases of child sexual abuse among the Ga Community in Accra, Ghana. Child abuse review, 31(1), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2711

 

  • Markwei, U & Tetteh, P. M. (2020). ‘To speak or not to speak’: exploring the reasons for (non) disclosure of child sexual abuse in the Ga Community in Ghana. Children and Youth Services Review, 121,105796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105796

 

 

  • Boafo, I. M., & Tetteh, P. M (2020). Self-Efficacy and perceived barriers as Determinants of Breast Self-examination among female nonmedical students of the University of Ghana", International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 40(4), 289-297. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272684X19885501

 

  • Tetteh, P. M., & Markwei, U. (2018). Situating the Notion of “gbekɛfɔŋs” in the Discourse of Child Sexual Abuse Among the Ga in Accra, Ghana. Journal of child sexual abuse, 27(5), 510-522. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2018.1477225

 

 

  • Tetteh, P. M. (2013) ‘Me sumsum ni ha’-The Dislocation and Non-Belonging of Child Domestic Workers in Accra. Ghana Social Science Journal. Volume 8, Numbers 1 &2, (2011) 106-127.

 

  • Tetteh, P. M. (2013). Understanding the Logic Underpinning the Recruitment of Children for Domestic Work in Accra. Sociology Reader, University of Ghana.

 

  • Tetteh, P. M. (2011). ‘Child Domestic Labour in (Accra) Ghana: A Child and Gender Rights Issue?’  International Journal of Children’s Rights (IJCR) 19 (2011) 217-232.

 

  • Tetteh, P. M. (2011). Child Domestic Labor in Accra: Opportunity and Empowerment or Perpetuation of Gender Inequality? Ghana Studies v. 14:163-189. 

 

  • Tetteh, P. M. (2010). ‘The American Baby Syndrome and the Migration of Ghanaian Women’. Journal of Management Practice and Policy (11)5: 145-154.

 

  • Tetteh, P. M. (2005). ‘We are Managing-Childcare Arrangements of Working Mothers in Accra. Legon Journal of Sociology, Vol. 2 No. 2, (81-98).

 

Conference Proceedings

Tetteh, P. M. (June 2022)., ‘The Development and Education in the Vernacular for Infants and Children (DEVI): learning cultures in rural villages in Africa. Poster Exhibition and Presentation. College-Level Celebration of the Day of Scientific Renaissance of Africa Celebration, College of Humanities, University of Ghana.

 

Tetteh, P. M. (February 2022). Reimagining Childhoods in Low Resource Contexts: What has Childism got to do with it?  Panel 1: Decolonial and Global South Perspectives. Childism and Feminism Colloquium: Transnational Colloquium Series. Childism Institute-Rutgers University, USA.

 

Tetteh, P. M. (April 2021). Vernacularizing the sexual and reproductive health rights of children in Ghana. British Sociological Association (BSA) 70th Anniversary Virtual Annual Conference 2021: ‘Remaking the Future’. 70th Anniversary Virtual Conference. Session RIG 1 PS2.

 

Tetteh, P. M. & Boafo, I. M. (April 2019). Factors influencing Prostate Cancer Screening among Ghanaian men-a health belief approach. 5th School of Social Science Conference University of Ghana.

Tetteh, P. M. & Torto, E.O. (April 2018). Exploring the Discursive Dynamics of youth engagement and inclusive development in Ghana. 4th School of Social Sciences International Conference, University of Ghana.

 

Tetteh, P. M. (April 2016). ‘Researching the Hidden, Taboo and Sensitive Issues in an African Context. Panel Discussion Lead, School of Social Sciences International Conference, University of Ghana, Legon.

 

Tetteh, P. M. (January 2015) Researching Children and Young people on Sensitive Issues: Ethical Considerations and Power Dynamics. Trainer of Fieldworkers- Impact of Sexual and Gender Identity Acquisition on Children and Young People’s Views and Understandings of Sexual Violence, Power, and Oppression in Ghana. Collaboration between the University of Sheffield, U.K & the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

 

Tetteh, P. M. (January 2015) Introduction to Creative and Participatory Child-Focused Research Methods. Trainer of Fieldworkers- Research Project on the Impact of Sexual and Gender Identity Acquisition on Children and Young People’s Views and Understandings of Sexual Violence, Power and Oppression in Ghana. Collaboration between the University of Sheffield, U.K & the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

 

Tetteh, P. M. & Anarfi Gyasi-Gyamerah, A. (May 2014). Homosexuality: Answering the Controversial Questions. 7th Annual Faculty of Social Science Colloquium Themed Social Sciences and Development in the Post Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Era: Old and Emerging Issues. University of Ghana. 15-16 May. 

 

Tetteh, P. M. & Ohemeng, F. (May 2014). The MDGs and Child Domestic Labour.7th Annual Faculty of Social Science Colloquium Themed the Social Sciences and Development in the Post Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Era: Old and Emerging Issues. University of Ghana.

 

Tetteh, P. M.  (April 2012). Recruitment of child domestic workers: a charity or a job? British Sociological Association, Annual Conference 2012. University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.

 

Tetteh, P. M. (April 2011).  Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place: the case of Child Domestic Workers in Accra. British Sociological Association (BSA) 60th Anniversary Conference, London School of Economics (LSE) London, United Kingdom,

 

Tetteh, P. M. (September 2010) Child Domestic Labour in Accra: the Voices of the Little Maids. The Child and Childhood in Theory and Policy Conference, University of Leeds/Manchester Metropolitan University, Weetwood Hall, Leeds, UK.

 

Tetteh, P. M. (September 2010). ‘They treat us as if we are not human beings’: The Complex Realities of Child Domestic Workers in Accra and the Implications for Policy. British Sociological Association (BSA) Work Employment and Society (WES) Conference, University of Brighton, United Kingdom.

 

Tetteh, P. M. (July 2010). The Complex Dynamics of Researching Child Domestic Labour in Accra. 3rd ENQUIRE Conference, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

 

Tetteh, P. M. (July 2010). Child Domestic Labour: Opportunity, Empowerment or Perpetuation of Gender Inequalities?  British Sociological Association (BSA), Youth 2010 Conference, University of Surrey, United Kingdom.

 

Tetteh,P. M.  (March 2010). Child Domestic Labour: A child and Gender Rights Issue? Whose Right? How Right? Interdisciplinary Social Science Conference- University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

 

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

Dr Tetteh has been an advocate for children and women over the years and has actively spoken on same in several media spaces. To promote children’s wellbeing, Dr Tetteh has in recent times being engaged in training officers from Human Rights Institutions (CHRAJ), international and local NGOs, and government Departments and Agencies on child rights monitoring. As a gender advocate, Dr Tetteh has been particularly interested in women’s participation in work and politics especially at the local governance level. She is the Patron of the students Chapter of the FGBMFI and a mentor to many young persons. She is an Adhoc reviewer for the Bristol University Press and a peer reviewer for the Ghana Medical Journal, the International Journal of Sociology, Children and Society and BMC Public Health. She has also co-authored Religious and Moral Education (RME) Textbooks for Basic Schools (Year 1-9).

 

Some Selected Extension Activities

Co Panelist- WAUPSA Business Administration Department-UPSA. Panel Discussion on Work-Life Balance (April 2023). Presentation made on ‘Self-Care’.

Speaker, Office of Research, and Innovation. Human and Animal Ethics Services (HARES). Enhancing Ethical Research in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences (ECBAS), 13, 20, and 27 August 2020. Presentation on the topic ‘the Ethics Clearance Process: A necessity or a Hindrance’.

 

Speaker, Office of Research, and Innovation. Human and Animal Ethics Services (HARES). Enhancing Ethical Research in the College of Humanities (COH), 26th February 2020. Presentation on the topic ‘the Ethics Clearance Process: A necessity or a Hindrance’.

 

Co-Panelist: Women in Politics Forum, 27th November 2019. Presentation: ‘Balancing Politics and Family’ as part of the general panel Discussion on ‘Beyond Rhetoric: Navigating the Cultural and Structural Barriers against Women at the Decision-making table.

 

Keynote Speaker:  Atana Women’s Conference 2019. June 22nd, 2019, at the Kama Conference Centre, Accra. Presented a Lecture on ‘Breaking the Glass Ceiling- The challenge of Work-Life Balance’.

 

Guest Lecturer: Aya Centre for Cultural Awareness and Development. 2nd May, 2019. Presented a Lecture on ‘the influence of NGOs and Christian Evangelical Movements on Sexuality and Gender in Ghana’ to students and Faculty from The New School, New York (USA).

 

Guest Lecturer: August 2018. Presented a Paper on ‘The role of Women in National Development’ to Students and Faculty from Marymount University, USA. Hosted by the Centre for International Educational Exchange (CIEE).

 

Guest Lecturer: May 2018.  Presented a lecture on ‘the Situation of Girls Education and Health in Ghana’ to students and Faculty from Spelman College, USA. Hosted by the Centre for International Educational Exchange (CIEE).

Co-Course Developer and Facilitator-I have co-developed and taught the course on Ethics and Values Theory for the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI), Daniel Leadership Development Programme (DLDP). (2023-2024).

 

Content Developer, Ethics and Values for High Schools and Colleges- I have developed and made presentations on Ethics and Values at more than ten Senior High schools (SHS) and tertiary institutions in Ghana as a member of the FGBMFI Schools and Colleges Project (SCP) Outreach Team.

 

Member - Board of Governors -Anum Presbyterian Senior High School (2008-2014).

 

President-Ansec Old Students Association (AOSA) (2008-2012).

 

Main Speaker: Made over 25 Seminar presentations at about 15 FGBMFI Chapters on various topics ranging from Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Teamwork and Service, marriage, and parenting, amongst others, over the last three years.

 

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

  • International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee 53-Sociology of Childhoods
  • British Sociological Association (BSA)
  • Ghana Sociological and Anthropological Association (GSAA)
  • International Academy of African Business Development (IAABD)