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Parental Involvement in the Education of Children With www.udsspace.uds.edu.gh UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, TAMALE PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN THE JAMAN NORTH DISTRICT OF GHANA SEIDU JUSTICE ADAMS 2018 www.udsspace.uds.edu.gh UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, TAMALE PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN THE JAMAN NORTH DISTRICT OF GHANA BY SEIDU JUSTICE ADAMS (UDS/MTD/0011/13) THIS THESIS IS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS, FACULTY OF EDUCATION IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE IN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT JUNE, 2018 www.udsspace.uds.edu.gh DECLARATION Student I hereby declare that this dissertation/thesis is the result of my own original work and that no part of it has been presented for another degree in this university or elsewhere: Candidate’s Signature ……………………… Date………………… Name: Seidu Justice Adams (Index No. UDS/MTD/0011/13) Supervisor I hereby declare that the preparation and presentation of the dissertation/thesis was supervised in accordance with guidelines on supervision of dissertation/thesis laid down by the University for Development Studies. Supervisor’s Signature:……………………….. Date………………… Name DR. ABDUL-RAZAK KUYINI ALHASSAN ii www.udsspace.uds.edu.gh ABSTRACT This study explored parental involvement in the education of the child with disabilities (CWD) in Jaman North District of the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana. Specifically, the study investigated parents’ expectations of the CWD in school, parents’ involvement in decision making process in the schools of CWD, parents’ contributions and collaborations between parents and teachers to enhance learning outcome of the CWD in schools. In conducting the research, a concurrent mixed method was used. The study involved interviewed 110 respondents consisting of teachers, parents of children with disabilities and children with disabilities. A mix of sampling methods was used. Purposive and simple random sampling methods were used in the selection of parents and teachers and the data was collected using a questionnaire through a survey approach. The result of the study showed that parents expected their CWD to acquire basic employable skills, able to live independent lives and contribute to national development. Secondly, the study also concluded that although there was high attendance of PTA meetings by parents particularly mothers, parents are not part of decision making of issues of their wards schools. The study also discovered that parents poorly contribute to learning outcomes of their children because they do not assist them with homework and also un-empowered. Lastly, the study also discovered that there is weak teacher-parents relationship. The study therefore recommended the targeting of parents with CWD to guide and assist them to ensure they have fair expectation of CWD and make them meaningful stakeholders in delivering quality education to children with disabilities. iii www.udsspace.uds.edu.gh ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like express my profound gratitude to the Almighty God for guiding me through this exercise successfully. Similarly, many other people have made significant contributions to preparation of this dissertation and I wish to commend them. Most especially I would like to acknowledge the concern of Dr. Abdul-Razak Kuyini Alhassan who painstakingly supervised and saw to the completion of this work. It is through his efforts and commitments in reading through every section of the manuscript that have helped me reach this far. Again, I am greatly indebted to my elder brother, Lt. Col. G.I. Sulleyman of 37 Military Hospital and the entire teachers, parents, and pupils of the selected schools for answering the questionnaire promptly which made the study very successful. Finally I thank my wife Zeliatu Adams, Jamila, Louisa and Khamil, my children, for their concerns, support and patience throughout the period of this work. iv www.udsspace.uds.edu.gh DEDICATION This work is dedicated to Bawa Tozu and Hawawu Issaka, my parents. v www.udsspace.uds.edu.gh TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents DECLARATION ........................................................................................................................... II ABSTRACT..................................................................................................................................III ACKNOWLEDGMENT...............................................................................................................IV DEDICATION ............................................................................................................................... V TABLE OF CONTENTS..............................................................................................................VI LIST OF TABLES........................................................................................................................IX LIST OF MAPS ............................................................................................................................. X LIST OF ACRONYMS.................................................................................................................XI CHAPTER ONE ...........................................................................................................................1 INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................1 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY .........................................................................................1 1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM ........................................................................................4 1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS.......................................................................................................6 1.4 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES .....................................................................................................6 1.5 METHODOLOGY....................................................................................................................7 1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY..........................................................................................7 1.7 DELIMITATION AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY ....................................................8 1.8 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY .......................................................................................9 1.9 CHAPTER SUMMARY.........................................................................................................10 CHAPTER TWO ........................................................................................................................11 LITERATURE REVIEW...........................................................................................................11 2.0 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................11 2.1CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES........................................................................................11 2.2 PARENTAL EXPECTATION IN THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES .............................................................................................................................17 2.3 PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION………………………………………………20 2.3.1 PARENT AND PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION ...................................23 2.3.2 SCHOOLS BELIEFS ABOUT PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE EDUCATION OF CWD .............................................................................................................................................26 2.3.3 THE ROLE OF TEACHERS IN PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT......................................27 2.4 PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN DECISION-MAKING IN THE SCHOOLS ..................31 vi www.udsspace.uds.edu.gh 2.5 PARENTAL CONTRIBUTION IN THE LEARNING OUTCOMES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES .............................................................................................................................37 2.6 PARENTAL PARTNERSHIP WITH TEACHERS IN THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN ..................................................................................................................................40 2.7 CHAPTER SUMMARY.........................................................................................................49 CHAPTER THREE ....................................................................................................................50 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ..............................................................................................50 3.0 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................50 3.1 PROFILE OF THE STUDY AREA........................................................................................50 3.2 RESEARCH APPROACH......................................................................................................52 3.3 MIXED METHOD DESIGN..................................................................................................53 3.3.1 SURVEY APPROACH .......................................................................................................54 3.3.2 CASE STUDY .....................................................................................................................55 3.4 POPULATION........................................................................................................................58 3.4.1 SAMPLING DESIGN..........................................................................................................58
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