About

Dr. Abraham Okrah is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Teacher Education, University of Ghana, Prior to his appointment at the University of Ghana, he lectured at the Valley View University, worked as Director of Quality Assurance, Head of the Department of Education and Coordinator of the Sandwich programme in the same university respectively. He also worked as a Part-time lecturer at the Language Centre of the University of Ghana. 

Education

Dr. Okrah holds a PhD (Curriculum and Teaching) from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, MPhil (Curriculum Studies) from the University of Cape Coast, Master of Arts (M.A.) in English from the University of Education, Winneba, Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) from the University of Cape Coast and Bachelor of Arts (French and Linguistics – focusing on Linguistics of English) from the University of Ghana.

Research Interest

curriculum design, implementation and evaluation, curriculum and teaching, curriculum in-context and out-of-context analysis, curricular material analysis in relation to relevance, literary criticism, British literature from Anglo-Saxon through Renaissance, Romanticism to the 20th Century literature particularly the themes underpinning poetry.

Publications

Text Book 

Okrah, A. K., Anku, J., Ofosu, V. S. & Odame, C. O. (2019). Literary criticism: Theory   and application. Accra: Woeli Publishing Services. 

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles 

Amponsah, K. D., Adasi, G. S., Mohammed, S. M., Ampadu, E. & Okrah, A. K. (2020).   

Stressors and coping strategies: The case of teacher education students at University of Ghana. Cogent Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2020.1727666

Anderson, H. K., Okrah, A. K. & Titty, C. A. (2020). Curriculum evaluation: A 

comparative study of a 4-year B.Ed. regular and A 2-year diploma sandwich results in Music, Movement and Drama. ECRTD-UK, British Journal of Education, 8(5), 1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37745/bje/vol8.no.5.p1-14.2020

Anku, J. S. A. & Okrah, A. K. (2020). From social media English to academic English: 

Analysis of surface errors in undergraduate ESL students’ writing. International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD), 5(1), 1384-1393. Available at: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38169.

Anto, S. K. & Okrah, A. K. (2015). Exploring the syntax of the Mo/Deg adjective phrase. 

Journal of Advances in Linguistics, 6 (2), 906-915. DOI: 10.24297/jal.v6i2.2951

Gyasi, M. N. K., Okrah, A. K. & Anku, J. S. A. (2020). Teachers’ knowledge of special educational needs and disability students and their classroom management approaches. World Journal of Education, 10(4), 2020, 160-172.

Okrah, A. K., Ofosu, V. S., Odame, O. C. & Anku, J. A. S. (2021). Gender differences in the construction of English of SDA College of Education. Dialectologia, 26(2021), 187-211. Available at: dialectologia 26(2021). DOI: 10.5539/jel.v9n3p57.

Okrah, A. K.,Ampadu, E. & Yeboah, R. (2020). Relevance of the senior high school curriculum in Ghana in relation to contextual reality of the world of work. Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 9 (1), 1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5430/jct.v9n1p1.

Okrah, A. K.. & Amponsah, K. D. (2020). Science related senior high school curriculum in Ghana and its relevance to the world of work. Social Science Learning Education Journal, 5(5), 142-156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15520/sslej.v5i05.2671.

Okrah, A. K., Anku, J., & Yeboah, R. (2019). Adjectival level sentimental analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Implications. Valley View University Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 1 (1), 88-102.

Yeboah, R., Ampadu, E., Ahwireng, D. & Okrah, A. (2020). Knowledge and usage of flipped classroom instructional strategy: The views of Ghanaian teachers. Journal of Education and Learning, 9(3), 57-65.DOI: 10.5539/jel.v9n3p57.