<p>This study is about how Tanzanian primary schools teachers look on HIV/AIDS related issues</p><p>in relation to education, and how the teachers use their education to prevent the spread of</p><p>HIV/AIDS.</p><p>The data to this study has been collected over a period of eight weeks. Fifteen randomly</p><p>selected Tanzanian teachers from three different primary schools in the Dodoma region have</p><p>been interviewed, where five of the interviewed teachers have been working in an urban</p><p>school, another five in a semiurban school, and further, five of the teachers in a rural school.</p><p>The theoretical foundation of this study is pedagogical. We have in our study emanated from</p><p>the African pedagogue Julius Nyerere´s and the Latin American pedagogue Paolo Feriere´s</p><p>thoughts around education as liberalization, when we asked teachers about how they educate</p><p>around questions concerning HIV/AIDS.</p><p>Our conclusion from this study is that the Tanzanian teachers have a substantial knowledge</p><p>about HIV/AIDS, and that all of the teachers are teaching their students in questions around</p><p>HIV/AIDS. Further, all of the teachers are using innovative ways to transmit knowledge</p><p>around HIV/AIDS to their students, though there is a difference between pedagogical methods</p><p>in the three different schools. Moreover, all of the teachers think that teachers have a</p><p>responsibility to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and that education can prevent the spread</p><p>of the disease. Concerning sexual interactions in school environment, the teachers in the urban</p><p>school did not consider pregnancy among school girls as a problem, comparative to the</p><p>teachers in the semiurban and rural school, who considered this to be a problem in their</p><p>schools.</p><p>The teachers direct or indirect stressed the importance of education for all people to prevent</p><p>the spread of HIV/AIDS. The knowledge about the disease could be transmitted through</p><p>different kinds of ways, where some teachers mentioned public meetings, massmedia,</p><p>counselling from parents and spiritual/religious education.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hh-2290 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Ivarsson, Therese, Rimfjäll, Fredrik |
| Publisher | Halmstad University, School of Teacher Education (LUT), Halmstad University, School of Teacher Education (LUT), Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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