Black Board Struggles: Teacher Unionism Under the ‘Democratic’ Rawlings Regime 1992-2000
Introduction hana’s return to liberal democratic rule formed part of what has been generally accepted as the third wave of democratisation in Africa, when internal frustrations with growing corruption, repression and unemployment in most African countries, conjoined with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, triggered waves of democratic protests, which eventually led to the birth or rebirth of new democracies across Africa (see Bratton & Van de Walle 1997). In Ghana, by December 1991, when the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), the quasi-military regime that was formed after the 1981 coup, observed its tenth anniversary, the move towards constitutional rule had taken firm roots. Two significant developments in 1992 sealed the rebirth of a democratic Ghana. The first was a
Labor Relations in Education: An International Perspective
Foreword by Charles T. Kerchner Introduction by Bruce S. Cooper Australia by Andrew Spaull Canada by Michel Grant China by Sun Jun England and Wales, by Martin A. Lawn and Geoff Whitty France by Guy Coq Germany by Deiter Wunder and Manfred Weiss Greece by Chris Jecchinis and Theoderos Koutroukis Hungary by Peter Darvas India by N. Jayaram Israel by Haim H. Gaziel Italy by Mario Ricciardi and Tiziano Treu Mexico by Regina Cortina New Zealand by Liz Gordon and Ken Wilson Sweden by Jan-Erick Lane United States of America by Albert Shanker Trends and Developments by Bruce S. Cooper Bibliographic Essay Index
Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa
This book makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on "globalization," culture and gender. Focusing on intersections of the local and the global in Africa, contributors elucidate how translocal and transnational cultural currents are mediated by gender, how they reshape gender constructs and relations, and how they both manifest and impinge on relations of power.