This study describes how AIDS prevention education
programs were constructed, delivered, and implemented in
Vancouver between 1983 and 1994. Biodeterministic models of
disease are examined through a historical analysis of
documents that include newsletters, minutes of board
meetings, policy reviews, annual reports, and personal
journals. This study assumes that AIDS is as much a sociocultural
phenomenon as it is biological.
The findings suggest that present educational
guidelines for AIDS prevention are unable to identify what
messages should be communicated and fail to identify to whom
they should be conveyed. This study does not recommend the
use of biodeterministic models of AIDS prevention education
which reflect plague metaphors. Instead, culturally relevant
strategies need to be developed throughout all aspects of
AIDS prevention curricula. / Education, Faculty of / Educational Studies (EDST), Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/4112 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Marjoribanks , Bruce |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 6322776 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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