Beyond metaphor drawings to envisage integration of HIV & AIDS education: a self-study in primary mathematics teacher education
| dc.contributor.author | Van Laren, Linda | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-21T13:03:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-21T13:03:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Researchers using participatory methods that are engaging, purposeful and facilitate social change may need further pragmatic strategies to encourage the required change. Using pencil-and-paper drawings to introduce HIV & AIDS integration in a discipline such as Mathematics Education is an innovative participatory strategy to initiate change. However, following up on such innovations to encourage take-up of HIV & AIDS integration would benefit the initiative. The following research question guides this study: What pragmatic strategy could I use in pre-service Mathematics Education to further take-up of HIV & AIDS education integration in school disciplines? I explore HIV & AIDS integration in a pre-service Primary Mathematics Education module that I taught at a higher education institution in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, by studying the drawings and experiences of eight final-year pre-service teachers. I use a metaphor-drawing activity to disrupt the ‘comfort zone’ of teaching Mathematics, following up by providing the pre-service teachers with learner activities suitable for primary school classrooms. When asked if they were able to integrate HIV & AIDS in Mathematics classrooms, these generalist pre-service teachers appeared to rely on phase-specific teaching material in order to take up the initiative. There is a need to use innovative participatory methods to initiate change and to provide pragmatic support for this envisaged change. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Van Laren, L. (2014). Beyond Metaphor Drawings to Envisage Integration of HIV & AIDS Education: A Self-Study in Primary Mathematics Teacher Education. Perspectives in Education, 32(2), 21-36. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0258-2236 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11660/3784 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Faculty of Education, University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Faculty of Education, University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | HIV & AIDS education integration | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Primary Mathematics | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Self-study | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Metaphor drawings | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Pre-service teachers | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Beyond metaphor drawings to envisage integration of HIV & AIDS education: a self-study in primary mathematics teacher education | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |