Drug Abuse in Schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Karimi Njogu
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Major Threat ◽  
Decisive Action ◽  
Drug Challenge ◽  
Opening Up

The article sets out to unveil the challenge of drugs in Njega and Kamuiru secondary schools of Kenya. With drug challenge becoming the single major threat to the entire education system in tropical Africa, the sampling of the two schools will help in opening up the matter for decisive action by the relevant stakeholders. Methodologically, the article begins by theorizing the issues regarding drug menace as it wonders: Why do teens engage in this vice? What are the practical effects of drug abuse? And more importantly, what can we do to arrest the challenge? Even though the article has not given the final solution on how it can comprehensively be tackled, it has however opened up possibilities that can lead to the final onslaught. The materials in this article are gathered via oral interviews, some selected readings, participant observation especially through visiting the specific sites, and through critical analysis.

Digital is Dead

2014 ◽  
pp. 220-236
Author(s):  
Santos Felipe Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Wall Street

This chapter draws from a 6-month participant-observation with an Occupy Wall Street group in Richmond, Virginia—Occupy Richmond—to deliver an ethnography of public discourse in postcolonial, queer, and multimedia contexts, as part of a critical analysis of imperialism in the digital age. The author develops techno-seduction as a term to deconstruct the lure of technological determinism that promotes static interpretations of democracy, participation, and the digital, in addition to considering how these interpretations impact intrapersonal and group identity formation. Finally, the chapter asks that we suspend our conception of the digital/non-digital dichotomy by thinking of the digital as dead, as a force that guides and influences our sociopolitical interactions, rather than as an isolated concept wholly separable from the non-digital.

“Maybe You Should Try It This Way Instead”: Youth Activism Amid Managerialist Subterfuge

2021 ◽  
pp. 000283122199347
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Clay ◽  
David C. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Youth Participatory Action Research ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Color Experience ◽  
Ethnographic Studies

The authors theorize what we call managerialist subterfuge, drawing on distinct ethnographic studies to examine how adult “partners” leverage the language and strategies of corporate managerialism to undermine youths’ radical visions of change. Critical analysis of patterns in interview and participant observation data across two youth participatory action research projects revealed the ways in which adult interventions functioned to co-opt youths’ activist agendas; following the rationale that youth who are presumed to be in need of adult management are “out of their depth” when it comes to civic matters. The authors assert that managerialist subterfuge functions as a mechanism to further bureaucratize youth activism and absolve state actors of accountability for harm that Black youth and youth of color experience.

scholarly journals KOMUNIKASI TERAPEUTIK DALAM KONSELING ANTARA KONSELOR DAN PASIEN PENYALAHGUNAAN NARKOBADI KLINIK BADAN NARKOTIKA NASIONAL PROVINSI JAWA BARAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
ADRIO KUSMAREZA ADIM ◽  
OKI ACHMAD ISMAIL
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Counseling Service ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Therapeutic Communication ◽  
West Java ◽  
Internet Searching ◽  
Termination Phase ◽  
Service Plan ◽  
Interaction Phase

The purpose of this study was to determine Therapeutic Communication in Counseling between Counselors and Drug Abuse Patients. To answer the research objectives, the four focus of the researcher, namely the pre-interaction phase, the orientation phase, the working phase, and the termination phase of Counselor Therapeutic Communication in Rehabilitating Drug Abuse Patients at the National Narcotics Agency Clinic of West Java Province.This study uses qualitative research methods with descriptive studies. The number of informants in this study were four people, consisting of three key informants and one supporting informant. Data collection techniques used in this study are literature study, internet searching, indepth interviews, non-participant observation and documentation.The results of research conducted by the Clinical Counselor of the National Narcotics Board of West Java Province are the pre-interaction phase where the counselor studies patient data. The orientation phase in which the counselor performs the Screening approach and builds trusting relationships with the patient and the Assessment of the counselor ensures patient safety as well as establishes a counseling service plan, and a termination phase where a drug abuse counseling service has been completed and will be referred to post-rehabilitation

scholarly journals ‘Radical Focusing’ as the ideal conceptual framework in addressing substance abuse

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Karimi Njogu
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Ideal

The article seeks to philosophically introduce “Radical Focusing” as a new concept in fighting drugs among the Kenyan youths and in the rest of the tropical Africa. By “Radical Focusing”, it means, employing the whole armour for combat in our bid to dismantle this destructive trajectory that principally threatens to wipe out the youth, and the boy-child in particular. The concept of radical focusing is largely inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s concept of the “Costly Grace.” In this concept of the costly grace in Nazi Germany of 1930s, Bonhoeffer fought injustices to the point of his own physical destruction during the era of Adolf Hitler. Owing to the sad scenarios of the day, Bonhoeffer inspired us to fight vices to the very end, and radically focus on the noble agenda throughout.  The data in this article has been collected through the use of questionnaires and interview schedule. Questionnaires were administered to the interviewees, most of whom sought anonymity owing to the sensitive nature of research. Apart from the interviews, existing commissions of investigative inquiry on education such as the Ominde commission of 1964 which proposed that the government should take over from churches and eventually manage schools; and Kamunge Commission among others, have provided resourceful information to the research that gave birth to this article. It is hoped that the research findings will go a long way in reconstructing our broken society for the better, and eventually bring remedy for drug abuse to masses of people who have lost direction in this endeavor.

scholarly journals Lobbying Transparency: The Limits of EU Monitory Democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Dinan
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Official Data ◽  
Monitory Democracy ◽  
The Eu

This article examines the origins and current operation of the EU’s lobbying transparency register and offers a critical review of the drivers and politics associated with lobbying reform in Brussels. The analysis considers the dynamics of political communication in EU institutions and draws on concepts of the fourth estate, the public sphere and monitory democracy to illustrate the particular challenges around lobbying transparency and opening up governance processes to wider scrutiny, and wider participation, at the EU level. This article draws upon interviews, official data and participant observation of some of the deliberations on lobbying transparency dating back to the 2005 ETI. The analysis is brought up to date by examining the data within the Transparency Register itself, both substantively in terms of the kinds of information disclosed and in relation to trends around disclosures and registration, since the register was launched over a decade ago. The article concludes with a critical appraisal of the evolving issue culture relating to lobbying transparency in Brussels as well as recommendations for the development of the Transparency Register itself.

scholarly journals Penggunaan Bahasa Verbal Hipnoterapis dan Pengaruh Nonverbal Terhadap Pecandu Rokok: Suatu Kajian Neurospikolinguistik

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-248
Author(s):  
Fetri Reni
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Client Data ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Informal Method ◽  
Observation Method

This research is aimed at finding the suggestion forms of verbal hypnoterapist language and its nonverbal reaction to cigarette suffering (clients). In collecting data is used observation method and non-Participant observation technique followed by recording and note taking method. The data is collected at one of hypnoteraphy clinic in Padang. In analyzing the data, the writer uses referential and pragmatic identity method. To finding data clearly, valuable, and easy to read is used descriptive statistic in order to know client condition and how far verbal hypnotherapist can influent to the client. Data is served in the formal and informal method. Based on the analysis is concluded that, somnabulistic is an important section in giving hypnotherapy suggestion. Using word “belatung” to AM client, “tikus” to WW client, and “ular” to IR client have a different reaction to each client. Client AM in the 21-27 scale, is a good suggestion. He is a Physical Sugestible who has right hemisfer domain. Client WW is an Emotional Sugestible, in the 21-27 also but she has dificulty in the open eyes trance, she is a middle suggestion who has left hemisfer domain and client IR has Intelectual Sugestible, who has critical analysis, in the 28-35. Beside that suggestions must have given reapeatly short, clear and motivation understandable langguage. Suggestions are in the plural and active sentences which avoid in using words “dont”, “will”, “no”.              Overall, cigarette suffering is a person who suffer from unconsious mind or psychomatis that can give negative effect to his healhty. Giving suggestion motivation sentences in hypnotherapy can hamper the critical factor of client and finally, can solve client suffer problems.

Indeterminate: Flora, 3D scanning and the instability of data

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Najdowski
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
3D Scanning ◽  
Environmental Media ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Scanning Process ◽  
Digital Materiality ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Media Project

This article discusses Echo, an environmental media project that explores the possibility of defamiliarizing representational structures of nature through creative practice techniques. Through a reflective, critical analysis of Echo, this article examines how the 3D scanning process, used at the threshold of viability, can illuminate the fragile conditions of data and the complexities of photographic representation. I argue that movements from the plane of environmental forces and forms into a digital materiality carries meaning in addition to signifying practices. This article suggests that viewing environmental photomedia through the lens of posthumanism and materialist philosophy offers the possibility of opening up more-than-representational meanings within materialities, processes, practices and art encounters.

scholarly journals Earthquakes and tsunami in November 1755 in Morocco: a different reading of contemporaneous documentary sources

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 725-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.-L. Blanc
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Seismic Source ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Tsunami Waves ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Astronomical Tide ◽  
Lisbon Earthquake ◽  
Tide Level ◽  
Run Up

Abstract. Tsunami seldom strike the European Atlantic shores. The great Lisbon Earthquake of 1 November 1755 is the main destructive tsunamigenic event recorded. Since the mid-1990's, many simulations of propagation of tsunami waves from variants of the possible seismic source have been conducted. Estimates of run-up in Morocco are seldom included in publications, maybe for want of reliable historical data to control the simulations. This paper revisits some early accounts, transmitted as translations to European Chanceries, Scientific Societies and Newspapers. A critical analysis of the documents leads us to conclude that the Lisbon earthquake was overestimated because of amalgamation with a later Rifian earthquake. Then, the overestimation of the tsunami through worst interpretation of the scant data available appeared only reasonable, while the moderate measurements or interpretations were not given their due attention. In Morocco the amplitude of the tsunami (i.e. height at shoreline minus expected tide level) may not have exceed the measurement given by Godin (1755) for Cadiz, 2.5 m above the calculated astronomical tide, a crest-to-trough amplitude of 5 m at most. This age-old overestimation of both the earthquake and tsunami is detrimental to the evaluation of the risk for coastal people and activities.

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