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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2012
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.
Agreements, discords, conflict and the promotion of accurate judgments by a breaking down of the individual components, especially in his substantially subtly mentioned capitalistic issues and allowing others to draw the evidences to a conclusion. How history is a constant series of competitive accidents: and how the effects have wider implications. His social setting, and earlier studies and working relationships that developed his thinking and multi-sectional research based working methodologies in establishing what is “civic order” (Boltanski and Thévenot, 1991, p.38) and potential “Problematic” elements that may present (Foucault, 2002, throughout). He establishes a universal methodology of a linguistic assessment as a commonage, and carefully unveils and examples content analysis as a primary method to safeguard the social members and introduce a transparency. This in turn develops a concentric effect on all others that surround the social aspect or “city” (Boltanski and Chippallio, [1999] 2005, p.xiii) attentioning a newer responsibility for the new “Departure” (Boltanski and Chippallio, [1999] 2005, p.68) and set it as a sustainable effort. His pragmatic critique methodologies, demonstrating how to deal with all levels of social issues in a logical and sequential fashion and how he rarely reverted back to previous wisdoms and theories, but further developed his own. In his love theories, he demonstrates how sequential arrangements [although individual] still exist, and he examples the workplace regularly and uses slightly dramatic language as “euphemisms” (Boltanski, 2012, p.3) to show his self-perceived inadequacies and admits to despairing as he finds his sociology tools inadequate: in advance reverting back to his safety of linguistics. Etiquette and frameworks develop in his methodologies, and he sets a scene, and regularly reviews his work and his working methods. The socio-linguistics tools he uses are supported by much secondary researches of the time. The close readings demonstrates a bled of these and the “interdependencies” (Elias, 2001, p.272) that exist and developed into strong allies, once reputable techniques and manners are employed. These developed and blend into a newfound accepted second nature that is more “efficien[t and] . . . secur[e]” (Boltanski & Thévenot, 1997, p.363) and he metaphorically demonstrates this in a meals serving order, and how newly and innovation can compromise between potentially rivaling parties to a newfound acceptable framework. While still aware of the potentials of the dualistic styling “tests” (Boltanski, 2005 [1999], p. 15) of his previous colleague Éve Chapilipo, to discourage ‘conflicts’ “in a natural order” (Boltanski & Thévenot, 1997, p.363). The illustration of his ‘city’ metaphor and theory are given in a contemporary and universal example of Waterford Institute of Technology, in its physical. metaphysical and forms of ethos. The basic components and its co-existences in a wider society, in ever-changing times. These co-existences are at all levels and the most basic component of a society or a city, must transaction in these also.
This issue of KIU Journal of Humanities deals with organizational development, development administration, entrepreneurial studies, social psychology, educational management, human rights and literary analysis. Articles in this 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.
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