Olaniyi Bojuwoye
Biographic Data
| ID | 6327894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olaniyi Bojuwoye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olaniyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Bojuwoye |
| SIGNATURE | BOJUWOYE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social comparison influences on disciplinary panels
This study investigated the influences of social comparisons on group polarization in decision making among members of selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panels. Ten participants from 10 selected secondary school disciplinary panels were involved. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect qualitative data on the experiences of the participants regarding the influences of social comparisons on their decision-making behaviours duri…
Group Polarization Effects on Decisions by Selected Kenyan Secondary School Disciplinary Panels
This study investigated social group phenomenon of group polarization effects on disciplinary hearing decisions in selected Kenyan secondary school. The participants were 78 school personnel (females = 42 % and males 58%) from ten secondary schools with both unisex (n = 39) and co-educational schools (n = 39). Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed. The results suggested group polarization effects in disciplinary heari…
Patterns of Gender Socialization of Adolescent Boys in Single-mother Households
This article analyzes the gender socialization patterns and masculine constructions of a group of adolescent boys living in single-mother households. Data collection methods such as observation and interviews were employed together with interpretive techniques to explain how the participants constructed their realities based on their experiences. The results revealed that gender socialization of adolescent boys took place when their single mother…
Experiences of Father Absence Adolescents from a South African Community
The study adopted interpretive/constructivist approach to examine father absence experience in teenage South African boys. Ten adolescent boys (with mean age of 15 years) from an impoverish suburb of Cape Town participated in the study. Mixed method data collection techniques were used including observation, interview and compilation of collage. Data were collected on participants' emotional and behavioural reactions to the absence of their fathe…
Cultural Embeddedness of Health, Illness and Healing
Culture influences conceptualizations about illness, health and healthcare. In this article we argue that Western-oriented health care models have limited success when applied to health conditions of people of non-Western cultures and contend that culture is an important factor in health, illness and healing. We present two cultural modes of illness and healing to illustrate that many health conditions are meaningful and can be effectively manage…
Integrating Ancestral Consciousness into Conventional Counselling
This article discusses concepts from traditional beliefs in ancestral spirits as therapeutic behavior change agents. Specifically, it examines ancestral consciousness in relation to attachment theory and its application in conventional counselling. A case illustration is discussed to show the potential incremental value of addressing ancestral consciousness in counselling people of African ancestry
Child Abuse
The study investigated children's experiences of the divorce of their parents. The study specifically sought children's opinions as to their experiences of, and family circumstances associated with, the divorce of their parents. Data collection was by in-depth one-on-one individual interviews. Participants comprised ten children (5 girls and 5 boys) whose parents were divorced. A phenomenological approach was adopted for the study in order to arr…
Personal, familial and environmental perspectives in children’s reactions to parental divorce in South Africa
The aim of the study was to describe, in personal, familial and environmental terms, children’s reactions to parental divorce. The study employed a qualitative approach, the purpose being to gather data relevant to meanings, perspectives and understanding of participants regarding their parents’ divorce. Ten pupils (5 girls and 5 boys, mean age = 14.2 years) from a senior primary school in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, participated in the stu…
Home‐school partnership – a study of opinions of selected parents and teachers in Kwazulu Natal Province, South Africa
Education is the business of both the schools and the homes. A school’s success is more assured with joint efforts of teachers, pupils, parents and the local communities. However, translating home–school partnership into positive impact is dependent on how partnership is conceived since it is this that determines the approaches to and the forms or practices characteristic of the partnership. Thus, to understand how homes and schools interact toge…
Parental Involvement and Children's Academic Achievement in a South Africa Setting
The study ascertained the association between parental involvement and academic achievement of high school students. Structured questionnaire was the main instrument employed to gather information from 115 parents (men = 25; women = 90; age range = 28–45 years) and their 115 children (boys = 38; girls = 77; age range = 15–18 years). Correlation analysis was used to estimate the extent of association between parental involvement and their children…
Factors Impacting on Career Choices of Technikon Students From Previously Disadvantaged High Schools
Career development is a socially constructed process involving complex interactions among different structures, forces, and systems all constituting spheres of influence. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that influence career decisions. Eighty respondents (40 males and 40 females with mean age of 22 years) participated in the study. Results revealed that family variables of parental high expectations of children and appropriat…
Community Psychology in Africa
This article presents the findings of a descriptive survey conducted for the purposes of exploring whether and how community psychology has developed in the African region. In particular, the focus was on identifying whether and how community psychology has developed in the country concerned; what the key characteristics of this approach in that context are; what meta-theoretical frameworks and theoretical approaches are adopted to inform the pra…
Training of Professional Psychologists for Africa
If the practice of psychology is to be relevant to environmental realities and context sensitive then conscious consideration must be given to the psychology training programme. Training programmes should give due recognition to the historical, political, social, economic and cultural contexts of human behaviours so as to understand how these interacting contexts may contribute to placing people at risk for ill-health. The main aim of this articl…
South African Experience of Gender and Affirmative Action
This research report is based on a study carried out to examine the degree of effectiveness of affirmative action in reversing the ills suffered by women in general and Black women in particular on account of apartheid. The main objective is to probe the operationalization of affirmative action in the context of South Africa and to consider if its underlying logic directed specifically at Black women is sufficiently strong to deal with the issue …
Crossing cultural boundaries in counselling
Student counselling services in a Nigerian University
Counsellor training in two different cultures
The role of counselling in developing countries
Personal, familial and environmental perspectives in children’s reactions to parental divorce in South Africa
The aim of the study was to describe, in personal, familial and environmental terms, children’s reactions to parental divorce. The study employed a qualitative approach, the purpose being to gather data relevant to meanings, perspectives and understanding of participants regarding their parents’ divorce. Ten pupils (5 girls and 5 boys, mean age = 14.2 years) from a senior primary school in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, participated in the stu…
Counsellor training in two different cultures
The role of counselling in developing countries
Student counselling services in a Nigerian University
Crossing cultural boundaries in counselling
Factors Impacting on Career Choices of Technikon Students From Previously Disadvantaged High Schools
Career development is a socially constructed process involving complex interactions among different structures, forces, and systems all constituting spheres of influence. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that influence career decisions. Eighty respondents (40 males and 40 females with mean age of 22 years) participated in the study. Results revealed that family variables of parental high expectations of children and appropriat…
Community Psychology in Africa
This article presents the findings of a descriptive survey conducted for the purposes of exploring whether and how community psychology has developed in the African region. In particular, the focus was on identifying whether and how community psychology has developed in the country concerned; what the key characteristics of this approach in that context are; what meta-theoretical frameworks and theoretical approaches are adopted to inform the pra…
Training of Professional Psychologists for Africa
If the practice of psychology is to be relevant to environmental realities and context sensitive then conscious consideration must be given to the psychology training programme. Training programmes should give due recognition to the historical, political, social, economic and cultural contexts of human behaviours so as to understand how these interacting contexts may contribute to placing people at risk for ill-health. The main aim of this articl…
South African Experience of Gender and Affirmative Action
This research report is based on a study carried out to examine the degree of effectiveness of affirmative action in reversing the ills suffered by women in general and Black women in particular on account of apartheid. The main objective is to probe the operationalization of affirmative action in the context of South Africa and to consider if its underlying logic directed specifically at Black women is sufficiently strong to deal with the issue …
Parental Involvement and Children's Academic Achievement in a South Africa Setting
The study ascertained the association between parental involvement and academic achievement of high school students. Structured questionnaire was the main instrument employed to gather information from 115 parents (men = 25; women = 90; age range = 28–45 years) and their 115 children (boys = 38; girls = 77; age range = 15–18 years). Correlation analysis was used to estimate the extent of association between parental involvement and their children…
Child Abuse
The study investigated children's experiences of the divorce of their parents. The study specifically sought children's opinions as to their experiences of, and family circumstances associated with, the divorce of their parents. Data collection was by in-depth one-on-one individual interviews. Participants comprised ten children (5 girls and 5 boys) whose parents were divorced. A phenomenological approach was adopted for the study in order to arr…
Personal, familial and environmental perspectives in children’s reactions to parental divorce in South Africa
The aim of the study was to describe, in personal, familial and environmental terms, children’s reactions to parental divorce. The study employed a qualitative approach, the purpose being to gather data relevant to meanings, perspectives and understanding of participants regarding their parents’ divorce. Ten pupils (5 girls and 5 boys, mean age = 14.2 years) from a senior primary school in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, participated in the stu…
Home‐school partnership – a study of opinions of selected parents and teachers in Kwazulu Natal Province, South Africa
Education is the business of both the schools and the homes. A school’s success is more assured with joint efforts of teachers, pupils, parents and the local communities. However, translating home–school partnership into positive impact is dependent on how partnership is conceived since it is this that determines the approaches to and the forms or practices characteristic of the partnership. Thus, to understand how homes and schools interact toge…
Experiences of Father Absence Adolescents from a South African Community
The study adopted interpretive/constructivist approach to examine father absence experience in teenage South African boys. Ten adolescent boys (with mean age of 15 years) from an impoverish suburb of Cape Town participated in the study. Mixed method data collection techniques were used including observation, interview and compilation of collage. Data were collected on participants' emotional and behavioural reactions to the absence of their fathe…
Cultural Embeddedness of Health, Illness and Healing
Culture influences conceptualizations about illness, health and healthcare. In this article we argue that Western-oriented health care models have limited success when applied to health conditions of people of non-Western cultures and contend that culture is an important factor in health, illness and healing. We present two cultural modes of illness and healing to illustrate that many health conditions are meaningful and can be effectively manage…
Integrating Ancestral Consciousness into Conventional Counselling
This article discusses concepts from traditional beliefs in ancestral spirits as therapeutic behavior change agents. Specifically, it examines ancestral consciousness in relation to attachment theory and its application in conventional counselling. A case illustration is discussed to show the potential incremental value of addressing ancestral consciousness in counselling people of African ancestry
Patterns of Gender Socialization of Adolescent Boys in Single-mother Households
This article analyzes the gender socialization patterns and masculine constructions of a group of adolescent boys living in single-mother households. Data collection methods such as observation and interviews were employed together with interpretive techniques to explain how the participants constructed their realities based on their experiences. The results revealed that gender socialization of adolescent boys took place when their single mother…
Group Polarization Effects on Decisions by Selected Kenyan Secondary School Disciplinary Panels
This study investigated social group phenomenon of group polarization effects on disciplinary hearing decisions in selected Kenyan secondary school. The participants were 78 school personnel (females = 42 % and males 58%) from ten secondary schools with both unisex (n = 39) and co-educational schools (n = 39). Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed. The results suggested group polarization effects in disciplinary heari…
Social comparison influences on disciplinary panels
This study investigated the influences of social comparisons on group polarization in decision making among members of selected Kenyan secondary school disciplinary panels. Ten participants from 10 selected secondary school disciplinary panels were involved. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect qualitative data on the experiences of the participants regarding the influences of social comparisons on their decision-making behaviours duri…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Medical education (5 works)