Obed Mfum-Mensah

Mfum-Mensah

Research:

• Citizenship Education
• Education and social development in the developing world
• Curriculum theorizing and development
• Alternative primary schooling in the developing world

Current Projects:

• Education for citizenship, schooling and children at the margins
• Ideologies and curriculum reforms in English Speaking West Africa
• Complementary education programs in the developing world

Recent Publications:

• Mfum-Mensah, O. & Friedson-Ridenour, S. Mechanisms for community participation in education in northern Ghana. Submitted to Comparative Education in July 2011

•  Mfum-Mensah, O. Ideologies and curriculum reform discourse in Anglo-West Africa from 1980 to present. Submitted to Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Education in July 2011 

• Mfum-Mensah, O. (2011). Education Collaboration to Promote School Participation in Northern Ghana: A Case Study of a Complementary Education Program. International Journal of Educational Development 31(5), 459-465

•  Mfum-Mensah, O. (2011) “Out of many we are one”: Ideological underpinnings of curriculum reforms in Anglo-West Africa from1980 to present. Paper to be presented at 55th Annual CIES conference, Montreal, Canada, April 30-May 5. 

• Mfum-Mensah, O. (2010). A review of Faith in Schools by Amy Stambach. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. 228 pp. (paper) ISBN 978-0-8047-6851-1. Teachers College Record, Date Published: December 21, 2010 http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 16266. 

• Mfum-Mensah, O. (2010) Education collaboration for complementary education programs: A case study of Northern Ghana. Paper presented at 54th Annual CIES conference, Chicago, IL, March 1-5. 

• Mfum-Mensah, O., & Sophia Friedson-Ridenour (2010) Community participation” in complementary education programs: A case study of Northern Ghana. Paper presented at 54th Annual CIES conference, Chicago, IL March 1-5.