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Poster Presentations
THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2015 15:00-15:30
This research explores the relationship among the dynamics of the process of family and educational socialization and
the development of aesthetic dispositions by means of a qualitative perspective with in-depth interviews and focus
groups and takes place within the schools of Milan.
The choice of the young pupils of study the art, related only to the domain of the plastic arts, represents the primary
interest in this research. What are the meanings of this scholastic choice? What are the scholastic and family
dynamics that emerge in this process? How does act the representations, logics and attitudes about art and school of
the students and their parents and teachers?
These are the main questions which this project attempts to answer through the conceptual tool of cultural capital and
looking at the studies about the sociology of education and cultural practices.
This perspective leads to consider the process of the sense of the artistic game development questioned in the
complexity of his own making. The artistic vocation is thus deeply rooted in a system of relations among different
actors, practices and representations. As a consequence, the uncertain and not granted artistic vocation is considered
as a result of the complex encounter between school and family. In this interpretative frame, the main object of study
is related to the theme of the reproduction of social inequality through the educational processes and the plastic art
world is the field chosen for its investigation.
POSTER 29
Adolescent Sexuality and Unmet Need for Contraception in Northern Cross River State, Nigeria
Ugal, D., Obi, P., Ugor, P.
(FCE, OBUDU CRS, NIGERIA)
Family planning programmes have faced the challenges of finding better ways to deliver services to millions of people
who would use family planning if they could. One indicator of the size of this challenge is unmet need for family
planning. The study was a descriptive cross sectional study of Northern Cross River State of Nigeria. The area is
made up of five Local Government Areas. The study used both male and female adolescents who are in and out of
school including those learning a trade, house helps, dropouts, nursing adolescents. Instruments included quantitative
– A structured questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data. Data generated were coded into the Statistical
Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and analysed. This study determined the prevalence & Pattern of sexual
activity, the ages at which adolescents enter into sexual activity/sexual debut. Results showed that a majority of the
respondents are single. These persons are still in school and at different locations of rural and urban areas.
Adolescent sexual initiation is young. Non-frequent use of contraception exposes them to a lot of risks including
unintended pregnancy, contracting STDs and infecting others. There is need for greater attention to the unmet need of
adolescents because the pervading factor that affects both wanted and unintended pregnancies of adolescents in
most societies is the basic question of young people's sexual rights. This might be surprising because when we think
of unmet need the first thing that comes to mind is supply of contraceptives and availability of services.
POSTER 30
A Qualitative Assessment of Environmental Factors in Maternal Health in Rural Cross River State, Nigeria
Ugal, D., Ashipu Cssp, B.
(FCE, OBUDU CRS, NIGERIA)
In spite of many approaches towards improving maternal health, there is still a slow decline in maternal mortality and
morbidity in less developed areas. There are at least 529,000 maternal deaths in the world annually. These deaths are
almost equally divided between Africa and Asia This situation is still prevalent despite several programmes introduced
as interventions to check this trend. One of such programmes is the "safe motherhood initiative", which was
introduced to suggest strategic interventions to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in Nigeria. These
interventionist programmes have either not been effective or are misdirected in addressing the issue of maternal
morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. These deaths, as well as disabilities therefore, suggests that maternal health is not
a simple consequence of reproductive risks alone, but an outcome of a host of maternal health conditions including
environmental factors. The study explored women assessment of those environmental factors affecting their health. A
sample of 823 respondents was drawn from a total population of 842,561. Multi-staged sampling techniques (cluster,
systematic and simple) were used to select participants. Research questions were used to assess relationships
among variables. Women maintained that the environmental factors exposing them to maternal risk included among
others household condition, socio cultural factors and practices. It is instructive that the needless exposure of women
to harm can be avoided through the improvement of maternal environment where they live and operate.
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