PAUL ANDREW BOURNE, B.Sc. (Hons), Dip Edu. INTRODUCTION Drug use among our nations’ youth has become the focus of concern in our schools. With the widespread availability and enormous variety of drugs, serious implications are placed on the society. Kleber (1994) confirmed that the use and abuse of drugs is a critical issue in most societies and it is
Paul Bourne, Bsc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION “One key feature of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action is a move towards a holistic approach to reproductive health, away from the verticality of population programmes. The vision was of a health system and a social structure tha
Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Booth (1994) wrote that, “in the early 1980s there was a widely share sense that social research and theorizing about development had reached some kind of impasse.” He continued that “crucial real-world questions were not being addressed and the gulf betwe
By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate); BSc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. The government of Jamaica and by extension the ruling People’s National Party (PNP) through the Minister of Education, the Most Honourable Mrs. Maxine Henry-Wilson, recently took a principled and land marked position. They agreed in allowing all the current students (May 200
By Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons), U.W.I.; Dip. Edu. According to Bourne (2005) in ‘A phenomenal Fallacy: The First Reflection’ wrote, “Instead, the focus seems to be an advanced version of the undergraduate course FD10A with a dosage of research [writing] technique” which speaks to a number of issues in the graduate language programme. The viewp
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. The Keynote speaker at the ninth Bob Marley lecture was Dr. Patricia Anderson, sociologist within the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mona Campus, University of the West Indies. Pat Anderson formulated her presentation around the theme “Govament Y
By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate); BSc. (Hons.) Economics and Demography Some Jamaicans habitually use the above quotation in a pejorative manner about deported individuals. This ideographic has seemingly crept into the psyche of the average person so much so that many peoples are promoting their individualized positions on the issue as ontology.
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. According to Mead (1934), “language is the means whereby individuals can indicate to one another what their responses to objects will be, and hence what the meanings of objects are . . .” Within Mead’s perspective lies the essence of writing at graduate level: it is a process that is succinct,
According to the passage, ‘Writing to Communicate’ effectively is governed by techniques that are oftentimes seen in ‘effective writing’ for which strategies can be given to readers that will facilitate them understanding the intent of writers (Ormrod, 1999). There are ten (10) such strategies. The use of ‘appropriate’ linguistic structure is a prerequisite strategy
By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (candidate), BSc. (Hons.) The PNP administration and the governing policymakers are 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, the missing element to date in the discourse is “what about those at th
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending);B.Sc. (Hons), UWI; Dip. Edu. As a partial new convert of democracy, which is primarily due to the constant indoctrination of Westerners’ theorizing on the matter, I have come to believe that the United States’ (US) in-depth conviction on the issue is concrete fact. Was I naïve? As this concept is the furthest from
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. “Poor people have to meet the increasing price of foodstuffs whose extra cost does not necessarily mean an increase in nutritional value; indeed in many cases much of the food in advanced societies is losing its food value.” Andrew Webster, 1970, p.16 Webster’s socio
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, “sleep occurs because the fluid or ‘liquor’,
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, “sleep occurs because the fluid or 
Introduction/Background In Jamaica, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has unleashed its supremacy over the general populace. This virus is single-handedly annihilating the productive sector, and it is equally removing from the landscape of this society its future human resources. Despite the many social marketing campaign that are aired on local media, the issue of HIV/AIDS catastrophic consequences has seemingly not reached the socia
The issues of trade and the gains thereof are of immense significance to economists, sociologists, political scientists and non-academic alike. Trade directly and profoundly impacts on peoples’ welfare. As such, many proponents in favour of international trade wholesale and blindly ascribe to free trade as they see the gains from trade and the benefits there from as the saviour of participation countries. Many of them do this without
Debbieann Sealey and Paul Andrew Bourne M.Sc. (pending), B.Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Edu. Introduction From the beginning of history dating back to Aristotle, researchers have used slumber to explain certain aspects of human behaviour. Chief among them is the issue of performance. The primary significance of this concept is to demonstrate the di
A historical comparative perspective of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its impact on the Jamaican adolescents. By Jamar Davis and Paul Bourne B.Sc. (Hons.), Dip. Edu Introduction/Background In Jamaica, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has unleashed its influence over the general populace. This happening has eliminated many peoples of the p
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending), B.Sc. (Hons), Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Development today has taken on a new sphere in that in earlier time, it were viewed as an economic situation but today, academic development has taken on a much stronger view concerning social research. In the early 1980s, there was a marked difference between soci
By paul andrew bourne B.Sc. (Hons) Economics and Demography Human development has replaced the classical economists’ conceptualization of development such so that modern economists refer to this construct as including social, political and economic development. Bourne (2004) in a paper titled Development: beyond an economic perspective wrote that: Karl Marx’s theorizing on economic development was interpreted within the construc
Human development has replaced the classical economists’ conceptualization of development such so that modern economists refer to this construct as including social, political and economic development. With this change in ideography, peoples’ welfare is a vital component in the new thrust. Now that welfare is measure beyond the capitalism perspective of costing, the
LITERATURE REVIEW INTRODUCTION David Hargreaves (Haralambos 1997, 5:231) states that, “many schools fail to produce a sense of dignity of working-class. If pupils fail to achieve individual success in competitive exams they will tend to rebel and fail to develop a sense of belonging within the school.” The researcher concurs with that conclus
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (candidate), B.Sc. (Hons), Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION The development discourse has taken on a new persona in the last decade. Traditionally, this phenomenon was seen as primarily economic. In order that this paper be comprehensive presented within the scope of a research proposal, we will
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INTRODUCTION Jamaica is the third largest landmass in the Greater Antilles of the West Indies. The island is located 90 miles south of Cuba and 100 miles west of Haiti. Its mountainous terrain spans an area of 235 kilometers (km) long, 80 km wide and covers a land area of 10, 991 squared kilometers. The country got independence from Britain on August 6, 1962, when the human population was 1,624,400 (STATIN 2001: xxvi). The nation’s pop
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