National Excellence in Teaching Award

New Voices in Psychology, 2016

I love learning, whether it is through a lecture, practical application or a book. Not only that, I love the opportunity experiential learning brings to the individual. Furthermore, when it is incorporated in a learning programme, the reflective component of experiential learning provides a heightened sense of being part of something bigger than self. It not only enriches the individual with a deeper knowledge of one's self and capabilities, but also an opportunity to peer into this emerging new professional identity rearing to go and contribute! That's the essence of what I came with to the Student's Conference. Although it was my first students' conference to attend, I had a sense of 'this is bigger than me this is a special moment

2008

In the face of what we used to calling "the rise of violence" and the diversification of its manifestations, this article aims to reflect on the different psychological practices present nowadays in the field of education and, at the same time, to think about the possible contributions from psychoanalysis in this domain. We deal with diagnostics such as "bullying" and "Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder" through to techno-scientific imagery. The article demonstrates the illusions at play following the imposition of technical and (psycho)pedagogical policies destined to be applied in state schools by teachers and psychologists, without their having participated in the construction and discussion of these methods. Using some examples, drawn mainly from today's tendencies in Brazil's education system, the authors offer a critical analysis of neoliberal policies, based on an authoritarian and instrumentalized scientific discourse such as that of behaviorism and cognitivism, which insist on regulating everything. This is why violence is starting to emerge as a response to the attempts of normalization, in the wake of the excessive use of diagnostics in schools and its respective medicalization, which has ultimately led to stigmatization and contributed to the sharp increase in passages à l'acte by children and teenagers. The authors dare to ask: what is the place for conversation in this context? Thinking about some less ambitious but perhaps more effective interventions, the authors defend the development of a psychological praxis oriented by psychoanalysis, founded on the valorization of singularity and subjectivity, that promotes a real insertion of children and teenagers in the adult universe of language and culture.

2006

To Mom and Dad for believing in me and making it possible To Lourens Human for his guidance and patience To Chris von Bergman for the proof-reading and feedback To The Trauma Centre and the participants for putting their trust in me To my dear friends and family for the circle of understanding To my peers for their shoulders, feedback and support

This issue of KIU Journal of Humanities touches on organizational development, development administration, diplomatic relations, clinical child psychology, philosophy and education, legal studies and literary analysis. In Organizational Development, Oluka analyzes the prepotency of needs and reward valence of employees in the Uganda’s Ministry of Local Governments. He advises the government to set up policies and guidelines to identify and meet the needs of employees; find ways of rewarding employees by enhancing their salaries, allowances and other motivational strategies. Looking at the effect of the Reward Management System (RMS) and Cost of Living (COL) on the Performance of academic staff in the selected private universities in Uganda, Emuron advises management of private universities to always adopt reward policies that are responsive to changes in their workers’ cost of living. Abubakar highlights some of the major challenges of managing newspaper organizations in Nigeria and concludes that Journalism training has to be reoriented to accommodate more training in economics, the arts and the economy in general. In the Second Part which is devoted to Development Administration, Assair and Oketch examine the relationship between youth empowerment and reduction of unemployment in Gardo, Puntland, Somalia. They suggest that the State should join hands with non-governmental organizations to put in place programs that target the youth. Wandiba also examines the level service delivery in the divisions of Kampala District, Uganda and recommends that leaders of divisions of Kampala district should close the gaps between the high to very high scores of service delivery by monitoring the teachers, local council workers, and health workers that provide the services and a two way research tool of those who get the services and those that provide the services to be used for representative responses. Sota, finally, examine the role of local authority leaders in traffic accident prevention in rural areas of Northeastern Thailand and suggests that it is very important to have capacity building for traffic accident prevention in local authority leaders in rural areas for increasing concern and good behavior for traffic accident prevention and create activities in the communities for decreasing number of traffic accident. In part three, Majok and Oketch report their findings on the effect of Security Threats on Diplomatic Relations between South Sudan and Sudan and recommend that sustainable security promotion between South Sudan and Sudan should be a comprehensive and coherent approach against security threats to diplomacy which should be implemented by both countries. Ikegbu also examines China’s development aid assistance to Africa and concludes that although China provides aid to Africa simply because China wants resources, China’s contribution towards the achievement of development in Africa is quite significant and cannot be undermined. In the Section on Clinical Child Psychology, Imbuki establishes that most of the children with Hearing Impairment came from Low social economic status Societies and that an Hearing Impaired child was at a higher risk of HIV infection due to poor communication skills, abuse from the hearing communities and little information about HIV. Based on these findings, he suggests that there is need to use a different language of communication for the children with Hearing Impairment about HIV. Nafiu and Okello also examine how maternal age at first birth, maternal age, previous birth interval, maternal education, maternal occupation, paternal occupation, latrine use and source of drinking water affect under-five mortality prevalence in Abim District, Uganda. They recommend that campaign against early marriage and teenage pregnancy be explicitly done, mothers be encouraged to exclusively breastfeed for at least 2 years, mothers be sensitized about the advantages of family planning, personal hygiene and good sanitation be continuously practiced if under-five mortality in the Abim District is to be controlled. Under Philosophy and Education, Adeleye examines naturalism and its tenets on education. He discusses positions of prominent the exponents of this school of thought in order to bring out its implications for education. Ogunlade and Ariko establish that there is no significant relationship between age difference and management of students’ discipline and that students’ average level of perception are significantly different from teachers’ perception on the use of ICT in relation to the management of students’ discipline. They, therefore, recommend that tutors should combine their knowledge of education and training with their experience as parents in applying rules and regulations towards management of discipline among students. Sapele and Ekereke finally discuss the contributions of education to politics as medium for grass root participation. They conclude that for effective participation in politics especially the grass root, education has to be given its rightful place as proper funding from federal, state and local governments should be made a priority to make the sector produce the desired results which will stimulate political participation. In Legal Studies, Sanni explores the meaning of the right to health and emphasizes its relationship with medical liability which lead to cause of action in negligence or criminal liability. Looking at the issue of court’s jurisdiction as a threshold issue, Ariyoosu recommends transferring cases to the appropriate court rather than striking out for want of jurisdiction for the proper and effective administration of justice. Relying on observation derived from documentary sources such as case laws, charters, treatise, journals, books and field observation, Tarabinah establishes that the Alien Torts Claims Act provides compensatory and punitive awards for damages against violations of international law and that a non U.S. resident can successful assert a claim against a tort feasor under the Alien Torts Claims Act in a U.S. Court. He suggests that foreign government of the home state of transnational corporations should ensure that people whose fundamental human rights are violated by the operations of oil transnational corporations domiciled in their territory should have unhindered access to effective remedy through the legal system. Ariyoosu and Ayinla also discusse the imperative of the relevance of Mini-Trial and other ADR processes that are yet to be explored in Nigeria but which arefunctional, in viewof the yawningtowards ensuring a practical application of ADR in the Nigerian telecommunications industry. Through Literary Analysis, Udi explores how Africans struggled against the colonization in Kenya and how the people of Niger Delta in Nigeria currently respond to economic and political woes of the colonialism imported into the Postcolonial era. Oboli also examines the attempts of African novelists to explicate the effect of the absence of mothers in a family and especially in the lives of children. Finally, Alonge and Akinyede reveal that explicit phonics instructional strategy has an effect on pupil’s literacy skills. They therefore, recommend that effective use of explicit phonics instructional strategy should be adopted in teaching and learning of literacy skills. On the whole, articles in this maiden edition of KIU Journal of Humanities are both strongly theoretical and applied. They provide solutions to some of the problems confronting communities, societies, economies, and the environment. The authors’ teachings and areas of research must certainly influence their perspectives on the diagnoses of the matters they have addressed. The methodologies used in the articles are useful to academics and policy makers.

1996

Over the past few years a number of initiatives against sexual harassment and violence have been launched by large corporations and South African universities, with mixed results. As an active member of one of the first projects of this kind, it became evident to Kottler how severely hampered policy making, education and prevention are by definitional problems and varied gendered and cultural constructions of the issues involved. With a view to addressing some of these an educational campaign at the University of Cape Town was proposed in 1993, part of which involved an attempt at an innovative multi-methodological approach free from the trappings of one particular discipline. Drawing on research using post-modern ideas and social constructionism looking at talk about sexual harassment, a post-graduate drama producer (Peter Hayes) was drawn in. He conducted workshop discussions on sexual harassment with men and women from a wide range of contexts (all audio or video taped), with a v...

Critical psychology -to my mind at least -revolves around one central (and fairly basic) tenet -that psychology is a political tool. Bulhan makes this point at the beginning of his (1985) Frantz Fanon and the psychology of oppression, by means of a pointed comparison between the careers of Fanon and Verwoed: "The two men ... were psychologists who put to practice their profession in ways that made history and affected the lives of millions ... Verwoed was a staunch white supremacist, a Nazi sympathizer, an avowed anti-Semite, and a leading architect of apartheid ... Fanon, in contrast, was a relentless champion of social justice who, when barely 17 ... volunteered for the forces attempting the liberation of France from Nazi liberation" (p3). This is an important contribution to the socio-political history of psychology in that it leaves little doubt as to the political utility of psychology, as either instrument of oppression, or as potentially enabling means of progressive politics. One word of caution though: this comparison should not be taken to imply that psychology's involvement in politics is merely circumstantial, arbitrary, opportunistic. As Bulhan (1985) goes on to make abundantly clear, and as critical psychology should assert whenever possible, psychology is always -even in its most everyday and mundane forms -political. In many ways in fact, and depending on the radicalism of one's critique, this may be not only psychology's most important functiongenerating and cementing kinds of politics -but also the motivating objective behind its initial emergence as a disciplinary practice. [In this respect see particularly and , but also ].

New York, 2012

NAME: CEBIBY, Age: 34 Nationality: Africa

South African Journal of Psychology, 2010

It is hard to believe that we have reached the end of the first term of the year already. As mentioned on previous occasions, the SAJP's success can be attributed to many factors including the exceptional support from the editorial board, which, among other things, has helped us reduce the backlog of articles. Only a few articles currently in our offices have been under review for longer than five months and even fewer for longer than four months. We have finalised Issue 40(2) (June, 2010) and are in the process of compiling Issue 40(3). The core editorial staff-PsySSA president, Kopano Ratele, consulting editor, Anthony Pillay, consulting editor: statistics, Tyrone Pretorius, copy editors, Willy Nel and Martin Strous, and publishing editor, Erna Kinsey-have combined well to maintain on-time delivery and the smooth running of the journal by dealing timeously with potential problems. After consulting global experts on ways to heighten the impact of the SAJP, we can report that we are particularly interested in reviewing articles covering meta-analyses of previous research/ theoretical points of view and articles on the standardisation of new assessment instruments. Articles that cast new light on 'old' issues (articles dealing with issues of the day in an innovative, creative manner) will also be most welcome. As always, an imposing array of scholars has contributed to Issue 40(1). Interested readers will be given insight into research endeavours in a number of psychological subfields, into progress made in terms of racial integration in training institutions over the past few years, and into the consequences of and contributory factors in teen-aged pregnancy. Other topics covered are the impact of stress on human behaviour and personality, the merit of Rasch modelling methods when constructing and using interval scale measures, and whether emotional intelligence should be considered an integral part of positive psychology. The various authors also investigate the psychological impact of child sexual abuse, the correlation, if any, between limited mental health knowledge and attitudes toward mental illness and the seeking of psychological treatment, and the training of the personnel and the efficacy of psychological services rendered by registered counsellors The role of language skills and social interaction in the development of social understanding as well as a strategy to deal with the negative self-concept and unhealthy eating habits of adolescents are also examined. Readers will have noted that we always attempt to publish articles dealing with issues that cut across the different subdisciplines of psychology (clinical, counselling, educational and research). We are particularly interested in themes that provide a starting point for interpreting psychological reality. It was especially heartening to receive, for example, a longitudinal study on teen-aged pregnancy in which the contributory factors are tackled head on in an attempt to better understand and manage the phenomenon. The contributions, as usual, reflect research conducted in all three research paradigms (qualitative, quantitative, and multi-method). Boasting a number of exceptional international contributions by leading global scholars, the list of contributions is diverse in terms of institution, gender and international profile. As only one article in this issue was authored by emerging black authors, we wish to repeat our invitation to established as well as emerging black researchers to use the SAJP as an outlet for their publications. We remain committed to capacity building and supporting black scholarship. We wish to thank all colleagues who responded to our call for readers to review articles. The response was heartening.