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Teacher Education and HIV / AIDS : Investigating Teacher Educators ’ Positioning in the Teaching of HIV / AIDS and Life Skills Education . A Case Study of One Primary Teacher Training College in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Banda, Martín Carlos Lozano Christopher, M. Parry |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | This case study was aimed at examining how teacher-educators position themselves during the process of mediating HIV and AIDS and Life Skills education in classrooms at one primary teacher training college in Zambia. This was done using qualitative methods. The data came from interviews with 10 lecturers, 7 males and 3 females. Additional data was collected from student-teachers, and also from the observations of lessons taught by lecturers at the college. By examining the factors that influence teacher-educators in their teaching of HIV and AIDS, the study found that the context in which these educators live and work is key to understanding how they each position themselves differently according to who they are in that context. This, by implication, influences the way they teach HIV and AIDS and Life Skills education in the college classrooms. The study further revealed that the teaching of HIV and AIDS was accompanied by different constraints such as: the conflict between curriculum content and the actual practice of teaching sexuality and HIV and AIDS; student-lecturer relationships; the taboos and the social and cultural as well as religious norms and assumptions surrounding sex and sexuality. However, in the midst of these constraints, some few teacher-educators used their agency in their practice of teaching HIV and AIDS education. Meaning that, despite such constraints, they were able to use their ability to exercise choice. The Research concludes that teacher training colleges, until now, have not managed to be places where student-teachers are being prepared to teach HIV and AIDS and Life Skills education later in their teaching careers. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.arcjournals.org/pdfs/ijhsse/v2-i9/26.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
