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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baxen, Jean, 1957- editor.

Breidlid, Anders, 1947- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Africa.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Africa.

HIV infections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Place of Publication:

Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

92-808-1179-7

1-920499-82-2

OCLC:

908671105