scholarly journals Teachers' social representations on drug use in a secondary school

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (spe) ◽  
pp. 601-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jussara Gue Martini ◽  
Antonia Regina Ferreira Furegato
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The Family ◽  
Production Distribution

Increased concern regarding drug abuse among adolescents contributes to the elaboration of prevention programs at schools. This investigation aims to know teachers' social representations, regarding drug abuse, in a secondary school in Florianopolis, SC, Brazil. A total of 16 teachers of the 5th to 8th grades participated in the study. Data were collected through associations elaborated by teachers in response to the expression: drugs use/abuse. The teacher's representations are organized around a central concept - the vulnerable other: a needy adolescent, who becomes drugs user, highlighting the family, everyday coping, and the school's (in)visibility in prevention actions, as factors related. The complexity of factors involving drugs production, distribution and its commercialization, demands the implementation of actions that go beyond the scopes of education and health. The elaboration of inter-sector prevention programs considering local characteristics is necessary.

scholarly journals School as a "protective factor" against drugs: perceptions of adolescents and teachers

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (spe) ◽  
pp. 590-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
María del Carmen García de Jesús ◽  
Maria das Graças Carvalho Ferriani
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Structure Interview ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Public Secondary School ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Semi Structure Interview

This study aims to discover and describe protective factors regarding the use of drugs, according to teachers and students, aged 14 to 15 years, from a Public Secondary School in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. This is a descriptive and exploratory study. Data collection was carried out through semi-structure interview and non-participative observation with ten students and five teachers. Three themes resulted from data analysis: school and school's environment: the school does not provide a healthy environment; use of drugs: perceived by both the students and teachers in the institution itself; prevention programs: there are health promotion and prevention programs available at the school. According to the students' and teachers' perceptions, the school represents a risk factor.

scholarly journals Psychological image of childhood characteristic of modern schoolchildren’s parents

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
A. D. Andreeva
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Age Related ◽  
The Family ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Descriptive Models

Introduction: psychological image of childhood is considered as a set of parents’ social representations about the value of childhood as a period of life, the purpose and the point of education, the future they want for their children, social and cultural resources of the family. We have assumed that the subjective image of childhood determines the educational trajectory parents choose for their child and becomes relevant in a situation of choice. We present the results of a three-year-long empirical research on structure and content of social representations about the main components of childhood characteristic of the parents whose children move up to a new stage of education: enter primary school, move to secondary school and graduate from secondary school.Materials and research methods: the research was carried out in the framework of the structural approach by J.-C. Abric, developed in line with the conception by S. Moscovici. As the main methodological technique, we used the method of prototypical analysis of free associations by P. Verges.The results of the research: it has been found out that parents’ psychological image of childhood is stable in the part which is based on the stereotypes and cultural traditions of the society, as well as on their own life experience. Another part of the childhood image, that is more mobile and variable, reflects the changes associated with the age-related needs of the children as well as the parents’ goals.Discussion and conclusion: we have confirmed the hypothesis that parents whose children go to schools that implement educational programs of different complexity have different representations about the values and goals of childhood as a life period. Based on the data received, we have reconstructed descriptive models of childhood image that are characteristic of parents who choose schools with different requirements for children’s intellectual and psychological development: ordinary secondary schools or educational institutions having high rating positions.

Errata

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. i-i
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Family Physician ◽  
State Prison ◽  
Medical Office ◽  
The Family ◽  
Human Side

The articles referred to in the footnote in Dr. Kaplan's paper on page 61, and intended to follow his article, were misplaced in this issue of the Journal. The articles referred to are: A Proposal To Place the Treatment of Addiction in The Private Medical Office…………………Alvin J. Cronson A Human Side To The Addict………………………Joan C/chosz Developing a Comrnunlty-Oriented Drug Abuse Program in a State Prison……………………Leont/ H. Thompson The Treatment of Drug Abuse by the Family Physician…………………………Ronald N. Horowitz and Ronald North

The Prevalence of Suicidal Behaviours among Secondary School Adolescents in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. N. Madu ◽  
M. P. Matla
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Suicidal Thoughts ◽  
Drug Overdoses ◽  
Commit Suicide

The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of suicidal behaviours among secondary school adolescents in the Limpopo Province. The participants in this study were 435 secondary school adolescents from Polokwane and surrounds. Two hundred and forty-three (56%) participants were female, and 192 (44%) were male. They were aged between 15 and 19 years, with a mean age of 17.25 years ( SD = 1.34). A questionnaire was used to record participants' demographic data and suicidal behaviours, including suicidal thoughts and threats, plans, and attempts to commit suicide). Thirty-seven percent of the secondary school adolescents surveyed indicated having thought of taking their own lives; 17% had made threats or informed others about their suicidal intentions; 16% had made plans to take their own lives but did not carry them through; 21% reported having attempted to take their own lives. These results indicate that a higher percentage of males than females had attempted suicide. The most frequent method used for attempting suicide was self-poisoning (44% of the attempters), followed by drug overdoses (25.3%), hanging (22%), self-stabbing (2.2%), and other methods, such as, jumping from heights, starvation, and drug abuse (6.6%).

scholarly journals Keith Stewartson, 20 September 1925 - 7 May 1983

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 545-569
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Mechanics Of Fluids ◽  
School Certificate ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Home

Keith Stewartson, one of the most mathematically profound of this century’s great applied mathematicians active in the mechanics of fluids, was brought up in Billingham, County Durham , where his father was a master baker. Keith was the youngest of three children, two boys and a girl, but his sister died very young and he was not subsequently able to remember her. Later on, an eminent academic career was nearly smothered at its inception when the eleven-plus examiners failed Keith Stewartson. Fortunately, however, they put him on a reserve list, from which he was in the end selected for entry to Stockton Secondary School. After a brilliant performance in the School Certificate Keith was encouraged to enter only a year later, in 1942, for the Higher School Certificate. Immediately after his extremely distinguished examination achievement leading to a State Scholarship and Kitchener Memorial Scholarship to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, the family home received a direct hit from a German bomb. Happily, however, the Stewartsons escaped owing to their air-raid shelter’s robust construction.

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