Exploring the Production and Usage of a Metal Wall Hanging to Highlight some of the Crucial Issues Confronting Girl-Child Education in Ghana
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Despite constitutional guarantees of free and compulsory basic education, girl children in Ghana still face significant barriers to education, due to teenage pregnancy, socio-cultural beliefs, and limited resources. This study, therefore, explored and produced a Metal Wall Hanging that highlights some of the critical issues confronting girl-child education in Ghana. This study used descriptive and studio-based research techniques within the qualitative design. The metalwork was created using etching and laser cutting techniques, emphasizing key themes. The research pinpointed certain key actions that pose crucial issues in girl-child education, which include sexual harassment and abuse, teenage pregnancy, societal expectations such as early marriage, and domestic responsibilities over education, like kayayo (head porters). The study also showed that completing techniques of etching allows artists to build complex, 2-dimensional designs that express a variety of artistic and personal messages. This procedure produced a semi-rendition that successfully conveyed the goal of the project and demonstrated how combining technical and creative expression can result in relevant fabrication products, such as a wall plaque. The research portrays that artwork can bring to light the issues of girl-child education and its effects in Ghana. The research recommends that further awareness campaigns be initiated using metal artworks and other artistic media to advocate for girl-child education in Ghana. Collaborating with educational institutions, NGOs, and artists can expand the impact of such artworks, creating more platforms for discussions and solutions to the challenges faced by girls in accessing education. Keywords: Girl Child Education, Crucial Education Issues, Artefacts, Metal Wall Hanging, Etching
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".