Inclusive Education in Ghana: Practices and Teacher Perspectives in the Central Region

Featuring Dr. Tiece Ruffin, UNC Asheville Associate Professor of Education. Dr. Ruffin discusses her 10 month Fulbright grant award to Ghana, focusing on her teaching, service, and research. She discusses co-teaching graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Education Winneba with colleagues in UEW's Department of Special Education where she worked with 159 students. Ruffin discusses her experiences serving on a UEW committee on Internationalization, participating in Ghana's Third National Curriculum Writing Workshop to Reform Teacher Education, and the co-organization of a collaborative program between the departments of basic education and special education on the use of children's literature to foster inclusivity in basic schools.