HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : understanding the implications of culture & context / / editors, Jean Baxen & Anders Breidlid

• Pubblicazione: Claremont, South Africa : , : UCT Press, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.196/979200967
• Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease) - Africa; HIV infections - Africa
• Persona (resp. second.): BaxenJean <1957->; BreidlidAnders <1947->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Title page; Imprint page; Table of contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1: Limitations in the Educational Research Agenda (1994 - 2005); Chapter 1: Researching HIV/AIDS and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Examining the Gaps and Challenges; Introduction; Research in education: Where is 'the gaze'?; Projective studies within sub-Saharan contexts; KAP studies on HIV/AIDS; Youth and HIV/AIDS; Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health; Socioeconomic and cultural constraints; Teachers and HIV/AIDS; Studies on intervention and training programmes ; Context, culture and HIV/AIDSDiscussion; Youth and HIV/AIDS; Teachers and HIV/AIDS; Context and culture and HIV/AIDS; Conclusion; Chapter 2: What Questions? HIV/AIDS Educational Research: Beyond More of the Same to Asking Different Epistemological Questions; Introduction; Schools as repositories of interventions and information about HIV/AIDS; Research questions in educational research on HIV/AIDS; Representation of disease in educational research on HIV/AIDS; Methodological frameworks in education research on HIV/AIDS; Conclusion ; Chapter 3: HIV/AIDS, Cultural Constraints and Educational Intervention StrategiesIntroduction; Cultural constraints in fighting HIV/AIDS; The Caldwell hypothesis; Sexual culture in Southern Africa; Sexual culture and ethnicity; Government policies; Awareness programmes and cultural appropriateness; HIV/AIDS and education; Intervention strategies; Conclusion; Part 2: Schools, Community, Culture and Context; Chapter 4: School Culture, Teacher Identity and HIV/AIDS; Introduction; Background and context; Methodology; Conceptions of culture and school culture; Main findings; Locating the schools ; Locating the teachers: Teachers' beliefs, professional identity and reproduction of school culturesInfluence of school culture and teacher identity on the mediation of HIV/AIDS lessons; Reciprocity and the dialectic relationship between teachers and school culture; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Examining Religious Leaders' and Traditional Healers' Responses to HIV/AIDS in a Modern Community; Introduction; Methodology; Sampling; Methods of data collection; Sensitivity to the context; Theoretical framework; Main findings; Religion and the place and purpose of sex ; Views on transmission, sexual behaviour and riskVulnerability and risk; Disease prevention strategies and religious beliefs; Discussion; Conclusion; Part 3: Youth, Identity, Sexuality and HIV/Aids; Chapter 6: Masculinising and Feminising Identities: Factors Shaping Primary School Learners' Sexual Identity Constructionin the Context of HIV/AIDS; Introduction; Methodology; Untitled; Methods of data collection; Sensitivity to the topic and working with children; Context of the children in the study; Conceptual framework; Main findings; Games children play; Socioeconomic environments ; Gendered nature of games
• Sommario/riassunto: Popular understanding of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is riddled with contradiction and speculation. This is revealed in HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, which explores the various contexts in which debate about HIV/AIDS takes place and examines how the pandemic is perceived by scholars, religious leaders and traditional healers, among others - in communities in and around South Africa. Using a social theory lens, the book focuses on not only the cultural and contextual practices, but also the methodological and epistemological orientations around HIV/AIDS in education that shape
• Titolo autorizzato: HIV
• ISBN: 92-808-1179-7; 1-920499-82-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829591803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II