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

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Researching HIV/AIDS and education in Sub-Saharan Africa : examining the gaps and challenges / Jean Baxen and Anders Breidlid What questions? HIV/AIDS educational research : beyond more of the same to asking different epistemological questions / Jean Baxen HIV/AIDS, cultural constraints, and educational intervention strategies / Anders Breidlid School culture, teacher identity, and HIV/AIDS / Bernice Adonis with Jean Baxen Examining religious leaders' and traditional healers' responses to HIV/AIDS in a modern community / Aysha Hattas Masculinising and feminising identities : factors shaping primary school learners' sexual identity construction in the context of HIV/AIDS / Hilda Rolls Performing masculine and feminine identities : sexuality and identity construction among youth in the context of HIV/AIDS / Mamatsoso Matsoso-Makhate with Gerald Wangenge-Ouma Grade 10 learners' conceptions of risk of HIV infection in four secondary schools in the Western Cape / Julia Kate Nupen with Gerald Wangenge-Ouma Cultural practices, gender, and HIV/AIDS : a study of young women's sexual positioning in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa / Marit Petersen HIV/AIDS educational research: epistemological and methodological implications Afterword : towards a hermeneutic understanding of HIV/AIDS in South Africa / Jean Baxen and Anders Breidlid.

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 community and individual interpretations of this disease. The book avoids a simplistic approach to the pandemic, by exploring the complex and sometimes contradictory spaces in which HIV/AIDS discourses are negotiated, and thus goes some way to present a more hermeneutic profile of the HIV/AIDS problem. HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa is as much about identity construction as it is about HIV/AIDS. The authors recognise the interrelatedness of sex, sexuality, identity and HIV/AIDS in the shaping of individual and collective identities and have thus gone beyond merely asking questions about what people know.

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This book is the result of a research project in South Africa on how the HIV/AIDS pandemic is perceived by various stakeholders in a South African context.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-133) and index.

Researching HIV/AIDS and education in Sub-Saharan Africa : examining the gaps and challenges / Jean Baxen and Anders Breidlid
What questions? HIV/AIDS educational research : beyond more of the same to asking different epistemological questions / Jean Baxen
HIV/AIDS, cultural constraints, and educational intervention strategies / Anders Breidlid
School culture, teacher identity, and HIV/AIDS / Bernice Adonis with Jean Baxen
Examining religious leaders' and traditional healers' responses to HIV/AIDS in a modern community / Aysha Hattas
Masculinising and feminising identities : factors shaping primary school learners' sexual identity construction in the context of HIV/AIDS / Hilda Rolls
Performing masculine and feminine identities : sexuality and identity construction among youth in the context of HIV/AIDS / Mamatsoso Matsoso-Makhate with Gerald Wangenge-Ouma
Grade 10 learners' conceptions of risk of HIV infection in four secondary schools in the Western Cape / Julia Kate Nupen with Gerald Wangenge-Ouma
Cultural practices, gender, and HIV/AIDS : a study of young women's sexual positioning in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa / Marit Petersen
HIV/AIDS educational research: epistemological and methodological implications
Afterword : towards a hermeneutic understanding of HIV/AIDS in South Africa / Jean Baxen and Anders Breidlid.

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 community and individual interpretations of this disease. The book avoids a simplistic approach to the pandemic, by exploring the complex and sometimes contradictory spaces in which HIV/AIDS discourses are negotiated, and thus goes some way to present a more hermeneutic profile of the HIV/AIDS problem. HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa is as much about identity construction as it is about HIV/AIDS. The authors recognise the interrelatedness of sex, sexuality, identity and HIV/AIDS in the shaping of individual and collective identities and have thus gone beyond merely asking questions about what people know.

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