Michel Vandewiele
Biographic Data
| ID | 332243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michel Vandewiele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michel |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandewiele |
| SIGNATURE | VANDEWIELE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université de Dakar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
L'être humain dessiné par les écoliers japonais de 7 à 12 ans
Le test du bonhomme a été administré à 233 (121 garçons et 112 filles) écoliers de sept à douze ans, habitant la petite ville Seto près de Nagoya au Japon. Le dépouillement a été exécuté selon la grille d'OSTERRIETH-CAMBIER (1976). Nous avons constaté que 1) les dessins des enfants japonais sont plus sophistiqués que ceux des enfants d'autres pays (Belgique, Mexique, Afrique Noire, ...) - 2) En général, les différences entre les dessins des fille…
The ‘Maquillage’ Practice in Brazzaville
This study is about the “maquillage”, the practice of bleaching one's skin by use of cosmetics. Our objective was to appraise the extent to which the “maquillage” is accepted in the population of Brazzaville and to measure attitudes toward this practice. Administering a questionnaire to 420 subjects (190 youth and 230 adults; 210 women and 210 men), we obtained the following results: bright complexion is suitable for women while a dark one is pre…
The family drawn by 9 to 14 year-old pupils from Nigeria and Zaire
Buakasa Tutu, Ojerinde Adedibu, Vandewiele Michel. The family drawn by 9 to 14 year-old pupils from Nigeria and Zaire.. In: Cahiers de sociologie économique et culturelle, n°9, 1988. pp. 81-103
Attitudes toward Love in the Caribbean
The Munro-Adams Love Attitude Scale was administered to 369 subjects aged 15 to 35 yr. in the Caribbean islands of Barbados and St. Lucia. Unlike North American and African samples surveyed with this instrument, West Indians endorsed Romantic Idealism more strongly than Conjugal Love. Data are interpreted in terms of Caribbean household structures and patterns of males' and females' relationships
The Protestant Ethic in West Africa
Beit-Hallahmi had found Protestant Work Ethic beliefs did not discriminate between Protestants and Catholics. It may be interesting to measure these values in an Islamic context. The Protestant Ethic Scale (6) was administered to 163 secondary school students (81 girls and 82 boys) from Dakar, ranging in age from 17 to 21 yr. The mean was 19.6 yr. They were subdivided according to socioeconomic status (33 subjects from rich families, 80 from the …
Les écoliers nigériens de sept a douze ans et le test de l'arbre
Le test de l'arbre a été administré à 300 filles et 300 garçons du Niger. Il s'agit d'enfants scolarisés âgés de sept à douze ans. Le dépouillement s'est fait selon une grille basée sur les travaux de Stora (1975) et de Bolander (1977). Nous avons ainsi pu fixer les normes concernant la situation globale de l'arbre, les dimensions, le sol, les racines, le tronc, les branches, les feuilles et le feuillage. L'évolution génétique est en général très…
Occupational Aspirations of Secondary School Students in Transkei
One of the main problems of secondary school students is the choice and acquisition of a profession. Many investigations in an African context on this subject have been done (Cassiers, et al., 1980). Our purpose was to identify the choices and preferred subjects for secondary school students in Transkei. W e asked in classrooms 161 representative pupils (76 girls and 85 boys) to answer two questions: What would you like .to do when you complete s…
L'être humain dessiné par les écoliers sénégalais de sept à treize ans
Une variante du test du bonhomme a été administrée à 700 (350 garçons, 350 filles) écoliers de sept à treize ans, habitant les principales villes du Sénégal. Le dépouillement a été exécuté selon le plan de dépouillement d ' OSTERRIETH-CAMBIER (1976). Nous avons constaté : 1) une régression des dessins des écoliers de huit ans par rapport à ceux des écoliers de sept ans. A douze-treize ans, les premiers signes de caractéristiques clairement différ…
Attitudes of Senegalese Secondary School Students toward Death
This questionnaire study investigated attitudes toward death of 340 Senegalese boys and 340 girls and their families, together with the ideals for which they might sacrifice their own lives and the time at which they would like to depart. The students, aged from fifteen to twenty-two years, described the following attitudes: 1) of their family toward death–resignation (26%), fear (23%), serenity (20%), and moralizing tendencies (19%); 2) their ow…
Use of drugs among Senegalese school going adolescents
Opinions des lycéens sénégalais sur le cinéma
Une enquête a été effectuée afin de pouvoir établir 1) le degré de fréquentation du film par un public d'adolescents sénégalais scolarisés - 2) les facteurs déterminant le choix d'un film - 3) l'appréciation des films vus par les lycéens et 4) l'orientation de leurs préférences. Pour atteindre cet objectif, nous avons soumis à 806 élèves du secondaire (300 filles et 306 garçons) un questionnaire écrit que l'on trouve en annexe. Ensuite nous avons…
Animistic Practices in Senegal
This paper examines the place and role of animistic beliefs and practices in the psychological make-up of Senegalese schoolgoing adolescents. Despite a long tradition of Islamization and a growing involvement in the Western educational and social models, Senegalese adolescents still largely believe in such phenomena. However, animistic practices are increasingly challenged by educational attainment and moral rectitude
Perception of Women's Religious Status by Senegalese Adolescents
The Senegalese society is one in which early Islamization has profoundly shaped the mentality of people. The role of women—essential in the traditional society—has also been altered in the process. This paper describes an assessment of the status of Senegalese women in contemporary Senegal as perceived by adolescents, who are equally at a cultural-cross roads of non-islamic traditions, early and intensive islamization, and Western education. Desp…
Attitudes of Senegalese Students toward Love
A classical approach opposes Western conceptions of love and African conceptions, without always giving fair treatment to either group. This study compared love attitudes among American, Ugandan, and Senegalese subjects. Though African, the Ugandan and Senegalese subjects show significant differences that indigenous characteristics only can account for even though on the whole their love style contrasts with the Western one. Senegalese subjects o…
Perception of Money as a Value by Senegalese Adolescents
The Senegalese society is marked both by the traditional values of solidarity, noncompetitiveness, and sharing characteristic of their past and Islamic emphasis on moral and spiritual values to the detriment of material possession. In such a context, Senegalese adolescents (200 boys, 200 girls) requested to comment on the value of money showed a typically ambivalent attitude: the need for social promotion requires money, and their religiosity mak…
Attitudes of West African Students toward Love and Marriage
While attitudes about love and marriage of youth in most Western countries have been studied, the Senegalese youths' attitudes represent the specific interests of a society in which traditional social and religious values of adolescents in school are challenged as they are exposed to new values and attitudes. Despite a growing preference for romantic love and a desire for greater self-assertion in selection of a mate, the youths' attitudes toward…
History of Western Education in French-Speaking Africa: The Example of Senegal
Three centuries of French government with a colonial policy of cultural assimilation have earned Senegal a rich yet ambiguous educational system. While contributing to the full development of the country one consequent would restrict separateness of cultural identity for the Senegalese and require adaptation of the French educational system to their specific needs. This paper examines the history of Senegal's integration as a colony with the Fren…
Attitudes of Senegalese schoolgoing adolescents towards tobacco smoking
Wolof Adolescents' Opinions of the Best Periods in Life from Certain Viewpoints
A questionnaire completed by 630 Senegalese secondary school students requested their opinions for various periods in the life of an individual (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age) of happiness, freedom, financial security, health, etc. Periods given the most favorable comments were adolescence and adulthood, while the most unfavorable comments are reserved for old age
Image of Self, Schoolmates, Parents, and Adults among Wolof Adolescents
This study investigated 695 Wolof secondary school students' (176 girls, 519 boys, age range from 17 to 20 yr.) perception of self, family, comrades and adults in general by a questionnaire. (a) Subjects were twice less worried about their physical appearance than about their psychological makeup. (b) Subjects' criticisms were levelled mainly at adults in general and less at themselves. (c) There was a greater concern for the family's poverty and…
How Senegalese Adolescents Consider Traditional Funerals
“What do you think of traditional funerals?” was the question we put in writing and anonymously to 400 secondary school students (as many boys as girls) at school. More than two thirds of the sample criticized funerals; a change of mentality toward traditional funerals is likely to occur. This is discernible in the youths' reluctance to meet the expenses of large and long funerals
Wishes of Adolescents in Senegal
By letting 803 secondary school students state three wishes each, classified according to the criteria determined by Jersild, et al. (1932) and Wilson (1938), we noted that avocation was a more frequently quoted category in Senegal than in other Western countries. Altruistic wishes more frequent in Senegal were more often given by boys than girls. Finally, the influence of age on the percentage of wishes expressed by the Senegalese adolescents af…
Attitudes of Wolof Adolescents toward Peers and Parents as Revealed on a Sentence-Completion Test
A sentence-completion test given 955 secondary school students showed their attitudes toward peers of the opposite sex are less positive than those toward peers of the same sex and that attitudes toward the mother are more positive that those towards the father. These adolescents seem to be looking to parents more than to peers
Expressed Values of Senegalese Adolescents
With the help of a questionnaire given to 727 secondary school students (215 girls and 512 boys) we have tried to investigate the main life goals of Senegalese adolescents. These long-term objectives are classified according to Glicksman and Wohl's (9) criteria. They belong in decreasing order of importance to the following categories: economic success and security, social concern, family, vocation, and “marriage and children.” The life goals of …
Influence of Family, Peers, and School on Senegalese Adolescents
From responses to a 6-item questionnaire, given to 815 secondary school students, were inferred interactions of authority exerted by parents, school staff, and friends on students. Generally the influence of teachers on decisions made by students outside school is as important as that exerted by peers, while parents' authority remains strongest. Scarcity of affective teacher-student contacts led to less reliance on them for advice than on parents…
Perception of Causes of and Attitudes towards Cheating at School by Senegalese Secondary School Children
This paper examined the causes of and the attitudes towards cheating in class as they were perceived by 800 secondary school students in Senegal. The causes of cheating as seen by our subjects fell into the following categories: students' laziness (47%), too many demands from the family (29%), teachers' attitudes (14%), a school syllabus too large or uninteresting (10%). The reasons for which pupils refrain from cheating are moral (57.5%), or the…
What Senegalese Youth like and Hate Most in Life
To describe the areas of dissatisfaction and various wishes of secondary school students in Senegal we asked some 1090 of them to tell us what they liked or hated most in life. Answers to both inquiries were gathered round a few chosen themes. What Senegalese students liked most were leisures and pastimes (24.3%), then certain moral and social values (19.5%), such as communal life, love between men, peace and calm. They generally wish to have a j…
Senegalese Secondary School Students' Preferences between Living in Town and Living in the Countryside
Out of 1039 Senegalese students of the secondary cycle who answered our questionnaire, 47% made clear they wished to live in town, while 49% would rather live in the country. Reasons put forward for their choices for living in town were either material (56 6% of those who made that choice believed that: living conditions were better in town, there were more schools, more pastimes, less unemployment, etc.) or socio-cultural (32.7% held that urban …
Wishes of Senegalese Secondary School Students
To know the areas of dissatisfaction and various aspirations of the Senegalese secondary school students we have allowed 700 to express freely their desiderata should they win the jackpot of the national lottery. These wishes have a restriction which is not always the case with similar studies: the wishes expressed here can actually come true. Half of the answers show a clear desire to support their families and the poor, a desire far less freque…
How Senegalese Secondary School Students Feel about Euro-African Mixed Marriage
To describe Senegalese students' feelings and understand their viewpoints and motivations towards Euro-African mixed marriage, we interrogated 882 students from all public secondary schools with 7 forms (Lycée) in Senegal. Supporters and opponents of mixed marriages are of equal importance. The reasons put forward in favour of such marriages were material (by 11%), affective (“I am for mixed marriages on condition that partners love each other st…
Persons Who Most Impress the Young Senegalese
We asked some 1090 students to tell us who had most impressed them in life and for what reasons so as to evaluate a few of their reference values through their partial identification to the proposed persons. Persons belonging to their family circle got the highest score (24.3%), then' persons endowed with many religious and moral qualities (15%). Next come political or historic characters (14.4%), men gifted with many intellectual and artistic qu…
Adolescents' Groups in Senegal
From 1000 students attending each of the secondary public schools in Senegal (West Africa) responses to a brief questionnaire were analyzed for characteristics of favourite peer groups. More than 80% of the respondents belonged to one or several groups. Their activities were: culture (216 %), sports (21 2%), dance-parties (18.8%), social evenings (10.7%), music (99%), and day-tripping (6%). As regards size, the number counting 11 or more members …
Attitudes of Senegalese Secondary School Students towards Traditional African Way of Life and Western Way of Life
With the help of an open-ended questionnaire addressed to some 882 Senegalese collegians, we inquired about the opinions of school-going adolescents upon traditional and Western ways of life, including two major problems, polygamy and the bride-price. Nearly half of the Senegalese adolescents (45%) wish to preserve, before everything else, certain traditional virtues such as solidarity, sharing with others, hospitality, respect paid to parents an…
Authority as Perceived by the Schoolgoing Senegalese Adolescents
With the help of a questionnaire addressed to 882 Senegalese secondary students we have investigated their views of the ideal mother, ideal father, and ideal teacher. We also examined how they perceived their relationships with their teachers and the incidence of family and school environment. Starting from Tap's classification (1966), we have tried to show that love and confidence were the qualities most expected from mothers. On the other hand,…
Occupational Aspirations of Secondary School Students in Senegal
One of the main concerns of Senegalese secondary school students is the choice and acquisition of a profession.l Investigations on the subject in the past few years have included studies on Chad, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone.2 Our purpose here is to delineate the motives for the choices and to examine the students' attitudes towards those who do not attend school. Like most of those mentioned above, this study also considers…
How Senegalese Adolescents Consider Traditional Funerals
“What do you think of traditional funerals?” was the question we put in writing and anonymously to 400 secondary school students (as many boys as girls) at school. More than two thirds of the sample criticized funerals; a change of mentality toward traditional funerals is likely to occur. This is discernible in the youths' reluctance to meet the expenses of large and long funerals
Wishes of Adolescents in Senegal
By letting 803 secondary school students state three wishes each, classified according to the criteria determined by Jersild, et al. (1932) and Wilson (1938), we noted that avocation was a more frequently quoted category in Senegal than in other Western countries. Altruistic wishes more frequent in Senegal were more often given by boys than girls. Finally, the influence of age on the percentage of wishes expressed by the Senegalese adolescents af…
Attitudes of Wolof Adolescents toward Peers and Parents as Revealed on a Sentence-Completion Test
A sentence-completion test given 955 secondary school students showed their attitudes toward peers of the opposite sex are less positive than those toward peers of the same sex and that attitudes toward the mother are more positive that those towards the father. These adolescents seem to be looking to parents more than to peers
Expressed Values of Senegalese Adolescents
With the help of a questionnaire given to 727 secondary school students (215 girls and 512 boys) we have tried to investigate the main life goals of Senegalese adolescents. These long-term objectives are classified according to Glicksman and Wohl's (9) criteria. They belong in decreasing order of importance to the following categories: economic success and security, social concern, family, vocation, and “marriage and children.” The life goals of …
Influence of Family, Peers, and School on Senegalese Adolescents
From responses to a 6-item questionnaire, given to 815 secondary school students, were inferred interactions of authority exerted by parents, school staff, and friends on students. Generally the influence of teachers on decisions made by students outside school is as important as that exerted by peers, while parents' authority remains strongest. Scarcity of affective teacher-student contacts led to less reliance on them for advice than on parents…
Wolof Adolescents' Opinions of the Best Periods in Life from Certain Viewpoints
A questionnaire completed by 630 Senegalese secondary school students requested their opinions for various periods in the life of an individual (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age) of happiness, freedom, financial security, health, etc. Periods given the most favorable comments were adolescence and adulthood, while the most unfavorable comments are reserved for old age
Image of Self, Schoolmates, Parents, and Adults among Wolof Adolescents
This study investigated 695 Wolof secondary school students' (176 girls, 519 boys, age range from 17 to 20 yr.) perception of self, family, comrades and adults in general by a questionnaire. (a) Subjects were twice less worried about their physical appearance than about their psychological makeup. (b) Subjects' criticisms were levelled mainly at adults in general and less at themselves. (c) There was a greater concern for the family's poverty and…
Animistic Practices in Senegal
This paper examines the place and role of animistic beliefs and practices in the psychological make-up of Senegalese schoolgoing adolescents. Despite a long tradition of Islamization and a growing involvement in the Western educational and social models, Senegalese adolescents still largely believe in such phenomena. However, animistic practices are increasingly challenged by educational attainment and moral rectitude
Perception of Women's Religious Status by Senegalese Adolescents
The Senegalese society is one in which early Islamization has profoundly shaped the mentality of people. The role of women—essential in the traditional society—has also been altered in the process. This paper describes an assessment of the status of Senegalese women in contemporary Senegal as perceived by adolescents, who are equally at a cultural-cross roads of non-islamic traditions, early and intensive islamization, and Western education. Desp…
Attitudes of Senegalese Students toward Love
A classical approach opposes Western conceptions of love and African conceptions, without always giving fair treatment to either group. This study compared love attitudes among American, Ugandan, and Senegalese subjects. Though African, the Ugandan and Senegalese subjects show significant differences that indigenous characteristics only can account for even though on the whole their love style contrasts with the Western one. Senegalese subjects o…
Perception of Money as a Value by Senegalese Adolescents
The Senegalese society is marked both by the traditional values of solidarity, noncompetitiveness, and sharing characteristic of their past and Islamic emphasis on moral and spiritual values to the detriment of material possession. In such a context, Senegalese adolescents (200 boys, 200 girls) requested to comment on the value of money showed a typically ambivalent attitude: the need for social promotion requires money, and their religiosity mak…
Attitudes of West African Students toward Love and Marriage
While attitudes about love and marriage of youth in most Western countries have been studied, the Senegalese youths' attitudes represent the specific interests of a society in which traditional social and religious values of adolescents in school are challenged as they are exposed to new values and attitudes. Despite a growing preference for romantic love and a desire for greater self-assertion in selection of a mate, the youths' attitudes toward…
History of Western Education in French-Speaking Africa: The Example of Senegal
Three centuries of French government with a colonial policy of cultural assimilation have earned Senegal a rich yet ambiguous educational system. While contributing to the full development of the country one consequent would restrict separateness of cultural identity for the Senegalese and require adaptation of the French educational system to their specific needs. This paper examines the history of Senegal's integration as a colony with the Fren…
Attitudes of Senegalese schoolgoing adolescents towards tobacco smoking
Attitudes of Senegalese Secondary School Students toward Death
This questionnaire study investigated attitudes toward death of 340 Senegalese boys and 340 girls and their families, together with the ideals for which they might sacrifice their own lives and the time at which they would like to depart. The students, aged from fifteen to twenty-two years, described the following attitudes: 1) of their family toward death–resignation (26%), fear (23%), serenity (20%), and moralizing tendencies (19%); 2) their ow…
Psychology (30 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Developmental psychology (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)