Credit Hours - 3

Students present their research proposals for selected topics of detailed study. Students will be required to identify a unique area of research interest, identify relevant literature on the selected topic, and choose an appropriate methodology to utilise in their research. Students will be assigned a supervisor to support the research process. Students will present their proposals to members of the Department using appropriate media tools and will submit a detailed written report on their research findings.

Credit Hours - 3

Students present their research proposals for selected topics of detailed study. Students will be required to identify a unique area of research interest, identify relevant literature on the selected topic, and choose an appropriate methodology to utilise in their research. Students will be assigned a supervisor to support the research process. Students will present their proposals to members of the Department using appropriate media tools and will submit a detailed written report on their research findings.

Credit Hours - 2

This course addresses the organizational management applied to educational leadership theories in developing, financing and implementing the instructional program in the elementary school. Topics to be covered include frameworks and approaches of change; individual and organisational change; management in education, theories of educational management, principles and practice of educational management, contemporary issues in educational management. 

Credit Hours - 2

This course utilises media and video games as texts for studying about learning in the digital age. Students will critically examine diverse perspectives on learning, interactive media and games in the Ghanaian context to identify the implicit and explicit social and educational implications. Topics include identity, learning contexts, motivation, social and cognitive consequences and the value-added approach. 

Credit Hours - 2

This course is designed to afford students the opportunity to utilise new technologies to develop a professional language. It will also provide the needed theoretical and conceptual frames to guide their gathering, examining, analysing, evaluating and reflecting upon a variety of records of classroom practice. Topics include high leverage practices, capture and analysis of audio and video records, classroom environment and intellectual work, and analysis of student work.

Credit Hours - 2

This course explores instructional or pedagogical approaches to the preparation of prospective teachers in the Ghanaian and West African contexts. It will explore the professional identity of teachers and the factors which shape their professional practice. Topics include instructional processes, assessment for learning, organizational structures, delivery systems for curriculum, enquiry and reflection strategies and student learning strategies in diverse teacher education contexts.

Credit Hours - 3

This course reviews major paradigms and debates in educational research. It explores research methodologies by studying qualitative methods and techniques in the light of students’ current research interest; explore relevant qualitative research design approaches and data collection tools; and develop a proposal for a feasible and meaningful field-based research enquiry. Topics explored include the qualitative research design, structural and thematic analysis.

Credit Hours - 3

This course will involve active critical consideration of participating in an educational internship in relation to professional context mapping and workplace learning. These processes will be achieved through partnership with an established educational institution, purposeful mentorship and guidance and a process of engaging in educational inquiry relevant to the candidate’s school context. Students will be assessed on a reflective paper utilising evidence from their internship experience.

Credit Hours - 3

This course is designed to assist students in developing those skills essential for curriculum restructuring, planning, and implementation at the basic and secondary school levels.  Emphasis will be placed on the role of responsible leadership in assuring that these processes function effectively.  Analysis of existing curricula from different disciplines and different contexts would form an integral part of this course. Topics to be treated include the types of curriculum, elements of curriculum, curriculum implementation and design, curriculum evaluation, curriculum development models, and factors that influence curriculum implementation and design.

Credit Hours - 3

This course conceptualises inclusive education as being about a broad range of groups vulnerable to marginalisation, exclusion, and low achievement. It will examine different dimensions of differences such as special needs, gender, race, social class, age and sexuality and its implications in teaching and learning. Students will critically analyse current educational policies and their implications for access to intellectual, human, and material resources. Topics include disability and special needs education, types, approaches and challenges of integration. 

Credit Hours - 3

This course will require students to select a topic of interest in a school or other educational institutional setting. The topic must be approved by the Department before a supervisor will be assigned to guide the student in the writing of the special topic through directed reading of current topical issues in education. The original research problem must be clearly addressed and could be theoretical, practice or policy-oriented, or methodological. 

Credit Hours - 2

This course introduces students to the design and implementation of evaluations of educational programmes. Topics include theories and practice of educational evaluation, evaluation planning and designs, and developing evaluation instruments, assessment of the educational performance of students, schools, and teachers, the impact of educational policies, measurement of the efficacy of specific instructional programs and materials, and exploration of the relationships between teacher education and teacher quality.

Credit Hours - 2

This course examines the different ways policy is conceived and the underlying principles and assumptions that underpin educational policy formulation and analysis. It considers the planning processes used by leaders to direct educational change and improvement in various departments and educational institutions under the Ministry of Education such as Ghana Education Service and National Inspectorate Board, their influence on school policies, plans, structures and practice. Topics include: policy conceptions, strategic planning and management in education, planning functions, models and relationships, assumptions about conceptions, factors that shape the political and policy contexts of schools and the influence of government policy on school structures. 

Credit Hours - 2

This course will explore major teaching and learning theories that have influenced instruction over the years.  The course will also introduce students to the different ways of how development of knowledge on instructional theories will improve teaching and learning.

Topics include major instructional theories such as behaviorism, cognitive information processing, meaningful learning/schema theory, situated cognition, cognitive development and constructivism. 

Credit Hours - 2

This course examines relevant philosophical, historical, social, cultural, political, and economic questions and influences on the development of educational policies and practices in education. Topics to be covered include influence of socio-economic trends, school restructuring, curriculum development, inclusive education, gender and society, international and comparative education, distance education, school reform, technology and education, human rights education; and the social scientific critique of educational thought and current teaching practices.

Credit Hours - 3

The course is designed to acquaint students with essential concepts in educational measurement and to provoke inquiry into assessment issues within the Ghanaian school context. Topics include reliability, validity, error, and bias; assessment and accountability, classroom-based assessment, especially formative assessment, assessing students with special needs standards for educational assessment, technology-based approaches to assessment, to examine contemporary educational assessment practices in diverse contexts.

Credit Hours - 3

This course introduces students to general and specific pedagogies that promote high levels of intellectual work and quality learning. Students will examine and actively engage in a variety of methods for teaching in senior high schools and critique materials and activities important to teaching and learning. Topics include creative teaching approaches, conceptual and procedural knowledge, lesson plan and development, classroom management, factors influencing teaching and learning, differentiated instruction, and theories of instruction.

Credit Hours - 3

This course reviews major paradigms and debates in educational research. It explores research methodologies by studying quantitative analytical methods and techniques in the light of students current research interest; explore relevant quantitative research design approaches and data collection tools; explore quantitative analytical methods and techniques and develop a proposal for a feasible and meaningful field-based research enquiry. Topics explored include the logic of research design, graphical and tabular displays of univariate and bivariate distributions, statistical inference and significance testing, contingency tables, t-tests, ANOVA, and regression.

Credit Hours - 2

This course is designed to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills associated with the building and use of information within an educational setting; how technology may be used as a tool to facilitate changes in the ways teachers teach and students learn. The course will enable students to access, retrieve and critically assess the accuracy and significance of information, and use technology for teaching. Topics include definition and concepts of information literacy; sources of information; affordances of technology for learning and teaching, integrating technology in various content areas; and appropriate instructional uses of software.

Credit Hours - 3

This course explores learners’ understanding of ‘a school’, and considers the different cultures that schools exhibit as well as the community and the wider societal influences on schools. Students will examine forms of argument, assumptions, historical interplays, and purposes of education through the study of works by philosophers such as Socrates, Rosseau, Dewey, Rand, Skinner, Plato and Marx. Psychological topics such as cognitive and language development, sociocultural diversity, exceptional learners, behavioural and socio-cognitive approaches, socio-constructivist approaches, classroom management will be discussed.

Credit Hours - 3

Carbohydrates Metabolism: Digestion of carbohydrates, glycolysis and fate of pyruvate in different organisms; tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle; pentose phosphate pathway and fate of reduced coenzymes; catabolism of monosaccharides other than glucose; gluconeogenesis, Calvin Benson cycle, Cori cycle, glyoxylate cycle; glycogenesis and glycogenolysis; regulation of carbohydrate metabolism; Diseases of carbohydrate metabolism. Aerobic metabolism of pyruvate, starvation and obesity. The coenzyme role of B vitamins. Changes in nutritional requirement and metabolic rate in injury and disease. Lipids Metabolism: Digestion of triacylglycerols; the different lipases (lipoprotein lipase, hormone-sensitive lipase); fate of glycerol; beta-oxidation of fatty acids; fate of products (acetyl and propionyl CoA, ketone bodies, reduced coenzymes); synthesis of fatty acids triacylglycerol, cholesterol; regulation of metabolism. Protein Metabolism: Digestion of proteins, transamination, deamination and decarboxylation of amino acids and the fate of ammonia (urea cycle) and carbon skeleton; metabolism of specific amino acids (aromatic and sulphur-containing amino acids); synthesis of amino acids; in-born errors of amino acid metabolism; regulation of metabolism. Enzymes as biological catalyst: Enzyme kinetics and concept of rate-determining step. Enzyme specificity and allosteric regulation. Mechanisms of enzyme action and examples. Coenzymes and vitamins. Drugs and their effect on enzymes.