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Ghana Programme - Resources

Newsletters

Newsletters written, produced and distributed by the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) at the University of Cape Coast (Ghana) are available to download from the following links:

Volume 1, Issue 1 (2011)
Volume 1, Issue 2 (2011)
Volume 2, Issue 1 (2012)
Volume 2, Issue 2 (2012)
Volume 3, Issue 1 (2013)

Other Resources

A YouTube video demonstrates the context in which LfL is operating in schools in Ghana.

Leadership for learning: concepts, principles and practice. Download.

Leadership for learning: an integrative model. Download.

Papers and Articles

Major, L. & Swaffield, S. (2014). Introducing the Most Significant Change technique to support Leadership for Learning in Ghana. Commonwealth Centre for Education Report No. 14. University of Cambridge. Download.

Swaffield, S. (2014). Learning from a national programme for school leadership development - Leadership for Learning Ghana: The contribution of educational research. Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, USA, 3-7 April.

Swaffield, S., & MacBeath, J. (2013). Deliberating on School Leadership in Post-Conflict Contexts: A Ghanaian Snapshot. Presented at the ICSEI 2013, Santiago, Chile. Download.

Swaffield, S., Jull, S., & Ampah-Mensah, A. (2013). Using mobile phone texting to support the capacity of school leaders in Ghana to practise Leadership for Learning. Presented at the International Educational Technology Conference (IECT 2013), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Download.

MacBeath, J., & Swaffield, S. (2013). Ghana: Resolving the tensions between colonial values and contemporary policies. In School-level Leadership in Post-Conflict Societies: The importance of context (pp. 49–63). Abingdon: Routledge.

Jull, S., Swaffield, S., & MacBeath, J. (2013). Changing perceptions is one thing…: barriers to transforming leadership and learning in Ghanaian basic schools. School Leadership & Management, 1–16. doi:10.1080/13632434.2013.849679

Jull, S., Swaffield, S., & MacBeath, J. (2012c). Transformational school leadership in sub-Saharan Africa: Leadership for Learning (LfL) in Ghana. Presented at the International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET) 2012, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Jull, S., Swaffield, S., & MacBeath, J. (2012b). LfL Ghana: Systemic Bottom-up Top-down Change (No. 13). University of Cambridge. Download.

Jull, S., Swaffield, S., & MacBeath, J. (2012a). Leadership for learning in Ghana: Shared leadership improving pedagogy in basic education. Presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2012), Universidad de Cadiz, Spain.

MacBeath, J., Swaffield, S., Oduro, G., & Ampah-Mensah, A. (2012). Building leadership capacity, enchancing learning and teaching in Ghanaian basic schools. In Millennium Goals Revisited: A Common Wealth of Learning (pp. 49–60). Abingdon: Routledge.

MacBeath, J., & Swaffield, S. (2011). Leadership for Learning in Ghana. Presented at the ICSEI 2011, Limassol, Cyprus. Download.

MacBeath, J., Swaffield, S., Oduro, G., & Bosu, R. (2010). Developing Leadership for Learning in Ghana: opportunities and challenges. Presented at the ICSEI 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Download.

Swaffield, S., & MacBeath, J. (2010). Leading professional development to build the capacity of head teachers in Ghana. Presented at the CamERA 2010, Cambridge.

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