BY Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc.; BSc.; Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION The desire to conduct this study spawns from the level of concern caused by violence in our schools. Besides causing physical harm, there is the psychological distress associated with violence. It is important that the school environment be free from fear and experience, the desired level of safety. This is only achievable if the worsening trend of violence is eradicated. Teachers and students alike should be able to perform ...
Poverty and Access to education By Paul Andrew Bourne Illiterate adults tend to be poor (Younger, 2002 p.98) Poverty is correlated with adults’ educational level: 66 percent of illiterate are adults poor, …, 64 percent of adults who did not graduate for primary school are poor, …, 22 percent of secondary school graduates are poor (Younger, 2002, p. 100) From Younger’s findings, an underline principle of poverty is illiteracy and how it affects the adult age cohorts. With such...
CORRECTIONAL INTERVENTIONS USED IN SCHOOLS INFLUENCE THE LEVEL OF VIOLENCE By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons) INTRODUCTION The desire to conduct this study spawns from the level of concern caused by violence in our schools. Besides causing physical harm, there is the psychological distress associated with violence. It is important that the school environment be free from fear and experience, the desired level of safety. This is only achievable if the worsening tr...
An investigation into the attitudes of school personnel toward ‘gifted’ children in two inner-city secondary schools in Kingston, Jamaica Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc (Hons.); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION The education system is a mode of psychosocial and cultural socialization for all peoples of societies (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). It is through this medium that many children are exposed to the requirements of an organic society where the system functions on the basis of solidarity...
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. The World Health Organization (W.H.O) is to be lauded for its involvement in the advancement of women’s ‘rights’ in the context of reproductive choices, and its effort in the coinage of a conceptualization and an operationalization on the phenomenon that is important in social research. This organization coupled with the United Nations (U.N) has extensively researched numerous population issues in different areas of this world. They have spe...
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Many developing countries continue to grapple with deficient economic resources, reprehensible government policies and a robust hegemonic class that maintain the exploitation of the laboured class. These societies have a social welfare system that does not ameliorate the wellbeing of the poor. With time, it is revealed that the demagogues are primarily concerned with self, associates and the perpetuation of the status quo that oftentimes exclud...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons), Dip. Edu. The ‘sugar daddy’ phenomenon has been a controversial area of focus in the Jamaican social culture. It has been purported by many lay researchers that the women are the only beneficiaries from these relationships (that is, practice). The phenomenon is becoming a norm within the Jamaican society. But the initial practice began with younger innercity females being lured into sexual escapades by middle/upper class older men...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Introduction It was during the unprecedented social upheavals in Europe that the formal study of sociology was developed. The industrialization of the topologies at the time meant that people were migrating from rural to urban areas, and the traditional agents of authority, such as the Church and the landed aristocracy, were losing much of their influence. This period earmarked the birth of organized labour, modern i...
Introduction Political Sciences cannot be viewed in a vacuum disconnected from the other sub-disciplines of the social sciences, as it is continuously interfacing with issues in sociology, psychology and demography, to name a few, in order to ground various theorizing. The issue of socialization is crucial to political scientists as well as to other social scientists. Nevertheless, the branch of study in the social sciences that looks comprehensively at socialization is sociology. As...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate), BSc. (Hons.) The PNP administration and the governing policymakers have been eagerly promoting "performance pay for teachers." This is rightfully so in an economy with dwindling resources and low productivity. In a global context of high-end competition from efficient producers, the missing element to date in the discussion is "what about those at the helm of the society?" Many people in this nation continue to advocate for the fundamental issues ...
By Paul Andrew Bourne I was named Paul Andrew Bourne by my parents Janet Green and Percival Bourne. The Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Downtown Kingston, is where I was born on December 5, 1968. Besides having lived with my mother, I was also raised by my stepfather, Alfred Beckford. Some people asked, "Can anything good come from the ghettos?" Despite that claim, I am the first of three children for my mother; and I was raised in the communities of August Town and Waltham Park. Thos...
In retrospect - Seaga: Wise or ignorant in his utterances By Paul Andrew Bourne The Most Honourable Edward George Phillip Seaga, leader of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has been battered, bruised and left for dead. Nevertheless, like a Phoenix, he is still searching for one last reign at the helm. However, despite the seemingly unwitting approaches that he has taken in the past, the letter to Bruce Golding, party Chairman, in regards his resignation is simply leveling th...
Debbieann Sealey and Paul Andrew Bourne M.Sc. (pending), B.Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Edu. Introduction Since the time of Aristotle and the period of the enlightenment, researchers have used slumber to explain aspects of human behaviour. Chief among them is the issue of performance. The primary significance of this concept is to demonstrate the differences in academic performance of people through the vantage point of their sleeping habits. According to Dutch physician Herman Boerhavve, ...
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. Capitalist ideology is the main source of interpreting the socio-political world since the late fifteenth century. (Addo, 1985, p.20) This Eurocentric edifice is generally promulgated as the ontology of this social and physical universe. Europe has not governed the world since its inception but their philosophy is so similar to that of the Greek-imperialism, the Roman-supremacy and the Babylonian-dominance but the former has made its theorizin...
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. The World Health Organization (W.H.O) is to be lauded for its involvement in the advancement of women’s ‘rights’ in the context of reproductive choices, and its effort in the coinage of a conceptualization and an operationalization on the phenomenon that is important in social research. This organization coupled with the United Nations (U.N) has extensively researched numerous population issues in different areas of this world. They have s...