Ghanaian Girls in STEM: A Paradigmatic Shift
Author(s): Gideon Adjei-Mawutor
Type:
Final project
Year of publication:
2020
Specialisation:
Gender and Education
Number of pages:
34
Supervisors: Thomas Brorsen Smidt
Abstract
The inclusion of girls into STEM fields has become a global conversation of which Ghana is partaking in. However, the androcentric posturing of science and its related fields have made it difficult, if not impossible for girls to get in. Many barriers stand in the way of girls’ involvement. The mode of teaching and learning—a relic from colonial past and the persistence of cultural and gendered norms that prohibit girls are main reasons for this barrier. This paper seeks to explore these underpinning reasons for the exclusion of girls in STEM fields in Ghana.