Abstract:
Globally, education has been recognised as a human right since the adoption of the
Universal Declaration on Human Rights in 1948. It has since been affirmed in
numerous global human rights treaties, instruments, and documents including the
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Conventions against
Discrimination in Education, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (UNESCO & UNICEF, 2007). The Topic- Newspaper
Reportage on The Right to Education in Ghana: A Content Analysis of Ghanaian
Times and Daily Guide, sought to investigate how the print media in particular the
above mentioned newspapers reported on the right to education. This was aimed at
finding out the right to education themes they used in their headlines to promote the
subject matter amongst Ghanaians from January, 2012 to September, 2015. The study
made use of the qualitative research method and the data came from an in-depth and
systematic content analysis of the Ghanaian Times and Daily Guide newspapers while
the Agenda Setting and Social Responsibility Theories of the Media were employed
for the analysis. The findings of the study revealed that even though the two
newspapers reported on education, the human right aspect of education in the
headlines was less in both newspapers. These were corroborated in the content
analysis undertaken by the researcher on the two newspapers. The study therefore
recommends that newspapers should use the right to education themes in their
educational headlines to promote the subject matter as human rights amongst
Ghanaian. The study will open the door for future researchers to delve more into
issues on the right to education promotion by the media including radio and television
to expand the frontiers of academic literature on the subject matter.
Description:
A THESIS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION,
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF
GRADUATE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA IN
PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF
MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY (M.PHIL) DEGREE IN HUMAN RIGHTS
OCTOBER, 2016