Can a constructivist, community-based intervention increase student motivation to study history? A case study from Ghana

Author:

Getz Trevor1ORCID,Ayirah Fredrick Kofi23ORCID,Yeboah Tony4ORCID,Kertsman Stacey5ORCID,Getz Benjamin6ORCID,Bakare Fara7,Kertsman Ariana8ORCID,Getz Kaela9ORCID,Mintah Tryphena Ebu10

Affiliation:

1. Professor of African and World History and Interim Chair of Secondary Education, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

2. History Tutor, Academy of Christ the King, Cape Coast, Ghana

3. EdD candidate, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

4. PhD candidate in history at Yale University, New Haven, USA

5. Independent scholar and consultant; career professional K–12 educator

6. Student in Linguistics, University of California, Davis, USA

7. Undergraduate student in Science, Technology, and Society, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

8. Undergraduate student in Afroamerican and African Studies and Social Theory and Practice, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

9. Graduate in Biology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA

10. Student, Academy of Christ the King, Cape Coast, Ghana

Abstract

Student interest in studying history is in decline in Ghana, as it is in secondary schools in many other parts of the world. Can student interest be stimulated, and can they be better served, by a curriculum that includes a focus on community, belonging and co-creation? This article details a preliminary intervention of just such a learning unit in a high school in Central Region, Ghana. Using a framework aligned with the historically responsive literacy approach, this programme supported student-directed research into aspects of local and personal history. The evidence from this study suggests that student motivation did increase, justifying an expanded future study of greater length, with additional participants, and building on the lessons from this preliminary effort.

Publisher

UCL Press

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