Abstract: This study sought to philosophically explore the concept of liberation from faulty thinking to critical thinking as an ontological vocation of all human beings as a solution to drug abuse among Kenyan secondary school students. The study uses the analytical method alongside the Cartesian methodic doubt in examining the student as an inherent critical thinker, the inefficiencies of current solutions to menace of drug abuse and in proposing a better way out of drug abuse. The study found out that the solution to drug abuse is not to be found outside the drug abuser but in provocation of the actual and the potential abuser’s mind to think critically. The first cause of drug abuse has been observed in this study to be the perversion of curiosity and therefore the solution to the problem should be based on addressing ‘incorrect thinking’ through pedagogies that seriously promote critical thinking. The students who undergo serious training in critical thinking are in themselves a solution to drug abuse. This study offers a recommendation necessary for the prevention of drug abuse among Kenyan secondary school students: that is the content and method in educating teenagers in secondary schools should in themselves be oriented towards making learners critical thinkers.
Keywords: Liberation, Faulty Thinking, Critical Thinking, Ontological Vocation.
Title: ONTOLOGICAL BASIS OF LIBERATION AND CRITICAL THINKING AS A SOLUTION TO DRUG ABUSE AMONG KENYAN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Author: Elvis Omondi Kauka
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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