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Exploring narratives of education: disabled young people’s experiences of educational institutions in Ghana

Pages 322-338 | Received 11 Aug 2015, Accepted 08 Mar 2016, Published online: 27 Apr 2016

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Gifty Owusu, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Joslin A. Dogbe, Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, William Nketsia & Vincent Opoku Karikari. (2022) Criminal justice in Ghana as experienced by people with disabilities: An analysis of the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of services. Journal of Human Rights 21:5, pages 558-574.
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Maxwell Opoku, Monica Cuskelly, Christopher Rayner & Scott Pedersen. (2022) The Impact of Teacher Attributes on Intentions to Practice Inclusive Education in Secondary Schools in Ghana. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education 69:2, pages 382-398.
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Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Christopher S. Rayner, Scott J. Pedersen & Monica Cuskelly. (2021) Mapping the evidence-based research on Ghana’s inclusive education to policy and practices: a scoping review. International Journal of Inclusive Education 25:10, pages 1157-1173.
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Lois Odame, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, William Nketsia & Betty Nanor. (2021) University Experiences of Graduates with Visual Impairments in Ghana. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education 68:3, pages 332-346.
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Maxwell Peprah Opoku, William Nketsia, Mohammed Alzyoudi, Joslin Alexei Dogbe & Elvis Agyei-Okyere. (2021) Twin-track approach to teacher training in Ghana: exploring the moderation effect of demographic variables on pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education. Educational Psychology 41:3, pages 358-377.
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Seth Amoako, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, William Nketsia, Anthony Kweku Edusei, Sally Adwoa Afriyie & Eric Badu. (2020) Inclusivity in neo-liberal policy environment: preparedness of mass media to support disability awareness campaigns in Ghana. Disability and Rehabilitation 42:21, pages 3015-3023.
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Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Richard Tawiah, Elvis Agyei-Okyere, Shaibu Osman & Sally Adwoa Afriyie. (2019) Teaching students with Down syndrome in regular classrooms in Ghana: views of secondary school mathematics teachers. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education 66:2, pages 218-232.
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Andrew A. Bayor, Margot Brereton, Laurianne Sitbon & Bernd Ploderer. (2023) ICT use and competencies of school children with intellectual disabilities in low-resource settings: the case of Ghana in sub-Saharan Africa. Universal Access in the Information Society.
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Maxwell Peprah Opoku. (2022) Inclusive School Leadership in Developing Context: What Are the Levers of Change?. Journal of Research on Leadership Education 18:3, pages 378-403.
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Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Joana D. A. Kyeremateng, Hala Elhoweris, Joslin Alexei Dogbe, William Nketsia, Charles Hammond & Shashidhar Belbase. (2023) Caregivers’ Accounts of School Searches for Children with Cerebral Palsy in a Developing Sub-Saharan African Context. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
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Huafeng Zhang & Stein T. Holden. (2023) Numeracy skills learning of children in Africa:—Are disabled children lagging behind?. PLOS ONE 18:4, pages e0284821.
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Shonisani Agnes Mulovhedzi & Takalani Rhoda Luhalima. 2023. Using African Epistemologies in Shaping Inclusive Education Knowledge. Using African Epistemologies in Shaping Inclusive Education Knowledge 29 48 .
Maxwel Preprah Opoku, William Nketsia, Michael Amponteng, Lois Odame, Shashidhar Belbase & Aysha Al Nuaimi. 2022. Rethinking Inclusion and Transformation in Special Education. Rethinking Inclusion and Transformation in Special Education 233 249 .
Guy Le Fanu, Elena Schmidt & Bhavisha Virendrakumar. (2022) Inclusive education for children with visual impairments in sub-Saharan Africa: Realising the promise of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. International Journal of Educational Development 91, pages 102574.
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Shakeel Ahmad, Mazhar Islam, Muhammad Zada, Afraseyab Khattak, Rezwan Ullah, Heesup Han, Antonio Ariza-Montes & Luis Araya-Castillo. (2022) The Influence of Decision Making on Social Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities: A Case Study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19:2, pages 858.
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Rylan Egan, Rosemary Wilson, Madison Robertson, Jillian Scandiffio, Amanda Ross-White & Angela M. Coderre-Ball. (2022) Barriers and facilitators to education experienced by students with disabilities in low- and middle-income African countries: a systematic review of qualitative evidence. JBI Evidence Synthesis 20:10, pages 2475-2511.
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Rodney Buadi Nkrumah & Vandna Sinha. (2020) Revisiting global development frameworks and research on universal basic education in Ghana and Sub‐Saharan Africa: a review of evidence and gaps for future research. Review of Education 8:3, pages 733-764.
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Michael Amponteng, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Elvis Agyei‐Okyere, Sally Adwoa Afriyie & Richard Tawiah. (2018) Understanding of inclusive education practices among parents in Ghana. Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs 19:3, pages 207-219.
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Harriet Cameron, Bryan Coleman, Tamara Hervey, Sabrina Rahman & Philip Rostant. (2019) Equality law obligations in higher education: reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 in assessment of students with unseen disabilities. Legal Studies 39:2, pages 204-229.
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Maxwell P. Opoku, J-F, Karen Swabey, Darren Pullen & Tony Dowden. (2019) Poverty alleviation among persons with disabilities via United Nations' sustainable development goals in Ghana: Voices of stakeholders with disabilities. Sustainable Development 27:1, pages 175-182.
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Ebenezer Alfa Senayah, Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Anthony Kweku Edusei & Eric Lawer Torgbenu. (2018) The accessibility of health services to young deaf adolescents in Ghana. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management 34:1.
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