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POTAG ENCOURAGED TO RESEARCH

 





Head of Department S. Ansah receiving a book donation from Dr. S. Laryea of WABER



By:KwaminaBamfo-Agyei

Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana has been encouraged to engage in research activities to add more knowledge in their field of endeavour.

The Coordinator of West Africa Built Environment Research, Dr. Samuel Laryea disclosed this during his interaction with teaching staffs of the Building Department of Cape Coast Polytechnic.

He stressed that research is an unusual way to contribute to theory and  is to produce a survey paper. He noted that a  good survey paper will critically review the literature in a particular topic or sub-topic, and place the various contributions in relation to each other, showing the emergence and development of ideas and evaluating the relative strengths and weaknesses of the various strands of enquiry already published. By pulling together all the literature in this way, an enormous contribution to our understanding may be made.

Dr. Laryea added that any serious piece of research will involve concepts that are specific to the issue being investigated, or to the investigative approach that has been taken. These should be summarized and explained if they are not common within the field of the target audience.

This is not just a case of explaining the concepts related to the particular phenomena under investigation, but, more importantly, to identify the methodological basis of the work: to answer the question, “what kind of research is this?”  

Dr. Laryea interracting with some of the teaching staff



You should report what you have done and what you have discovered, and show how it relates to what we already know.

He later presented a book entitled “Construction Law and Management Contracts’ by John Murdoch and Will Hughes to the Building Department.

The Head of Department Samuel Ansah, expressed his gratitude to the organisers of West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER) for the interaction with staff of the department in inspiring  them to take research activities seriously and pledged to put a mechanism in place that will motivate the staff to engage in research work especially in the built environment.