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Experiences Of Educators In Managing The Implementation Of School Based Hiv Aids Policy In Limpopo Province
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Book Synopsis Experiences of Educators in Managing the Implementation of School-based HIV/AIDS Policy in Limpopo Province by : Solomon Nzama Rikhotso
Download or read book Experiences of Educators in Managing the Implementation of School-based HIV/AIDS Policy in Limpopo Province written by Solomon Nzama Rikhotso and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to explore the views of principals and educators regarding the impact of HIV/AIDS in their schools; to identify the aspects of the National Policy related to HIV/AIDS that are relevant to the management of school-based HIV/AIDS policy in selected schools; to determine how school-based HIV/AIDS policy is implemented in those schools, to explore how principals and educators experience the management of the implementation of school-based HIV /AIDS policy; and to identify the challenges experienced by the principals and the educators as well as the strategies they use in implementing school-based HIV/AIDS policy. The main research question was: What are the experiences of principals and educators in the management of school-based HIV/AIDS policy implementation? The study focused on four high schools in the Klein Letaba Circuit in the district of Mopani in Limpopo Province. In order to investigate the experiences of educators and their views about present-day HIV/AIDS school-based policies and their implementation, the researcher used a qualitative research approach that is phenomenological in nature. The research design was a multi-site case study involving two participants from each of the four selected schools; a total of eight participants were involved in the study. Purposive sampling was used to select a principal and one Life Orientation educator from each of the schools. Semi-structured interviews and document analysis formed part of the data collection process. The findings of the study revealed that the management of school-based HIV/AIDS implementation is a challenge in schools in the Klein Letaba Circuit. The researcher found that HIV/AIDS impacts negatively on learners' abilities to attend school; on effective teaching and learning; the performance of learners; the behaviour of orphaned learners; and the responsibilities of educators. The study further revealed that schools included factors, such as discrimination, admission, voluntary testing, the exemption of compulsory school attendance for learners with ill-health and learner safety during sporting activities in their school-based policies. In terms of the implementation of school-based HIV/AIDS policy, the study revealed that all stakeholders need to know the contents of the policy, and be involved in its formulation and implementation. Life orientation and classroom rules support for affected learners and Health Advisory Committees may be used to communicate information about HIV/AIDS. The study also revealed that awareness; respect; trust; talking openly about HIV/AIDS; the involvement of the wider community in managing HIV/AIDS; and increasing the knowledge of educators on issue related to HIV/AIDS are strategies that work well in managing the implementation of HIV/AIDS policy. The study identified ignorance; denial; lack of awareness; and educators' extra workloads as challenges which hinder the effective implementation of a school-based HIV/AIDS policy.
Book Synopsis Workplace Policies in Public Education by : Leickness Chisamu Simbayi
Download or read book Workplace Policies in Public Education written by Leickness Chisamu Simbayi and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Factors determining educator supply and demand in South African public schools.
Book Synopsis How School Principals Understand and Implement HIV/AIDS Policy in Schools by : Teresa Auma Ogina
Download or read book How School Principals Understand and Implement HIV/AIDS Policy in Schools written by Teresa Auma Ogina and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate how school principals understand HIV/AIDS and how their knowledge, attitude and interpretation filter in the implementation of the HIV policy in schools. The study comprises a literature review and empirical investigation. The results of this study can be used in planning and implementing HIV policy in schools. The data were collected by administering semi-structured interviews. Ten school principals from the Dennilton circuit in Southern Region of the Limpopo Province were interviewed. The results show that the majority of the principals involved in the study confirm that HIV/AIDS is an incurable disease caused by a virus and is mainly sexually transmitted. Some principals regard their school safe from HIV infection. Their assumption is based on the absence of HIV positive learners and educators in their schools. The principals are aware of the rights of HIV positive learners and educators. Significantly, the research findings indicate that the majority of schools lack educators with HIV/AIDS training, rules on safety precautions and first aid kits. It is recommended that ongoing HIV/AIDS training programmes be provided for educators to enable them to educate the youth on HIV/AIDS. Additionally, schools should focus on strategies to implement universal safety precautions against HIV transmission and to obtain first aid kits. Lastly, school principals should involve parents and other stakeholders in creating a positive school environment for HIV positive learners and educators.
Book Synopsis Head Teachers' Experiences and Students' Perceptions in Implementing HIV/AIDS Education Programs in High Schools in Rural Kisii District, Kenya by : Kennedy Ombonga Ongaga
Download or read book Head Teachers' Experiences and Students' Perceptions in Implementing HIV/AIDS Education Programs in High Schools in Rural Kisii District, Kenya written by Kennedy Ombonga Ongaga and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Teachers Living with AIDS by : Patricia Machawira
Download or read book Teachers Living with AIDS written by Patricia Machawira and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how HIV-positive teachers within a specific social context understand, interpret and act on HIV and Life Skills policy. My aim was to illuminate the experiences of teachers living with AIDS and how their experiences affect the ways in which they understand and act on government policy. As a constructivist, I worked on the premise that people's experiences can best be understood by interacting with them and listening to them. I chose a narrative research design because it allowed me to explore and understand the perceptions and complexity of my research partners' experiences, and to faithfully present and represent the stories told by teachers living with AIDS. I used the data collected from the teachers' stories to write narratives that gave a first person account of the experiences of each teacher. To express my own voice in the text I created a column on the side of each page where I recorded my own experience of the process of the inquiry. I used inductive analysis in order to make sense of the field data. Rather than beginning with a theory, inductive analysis allowed me to expose the dominant and significant themes in the raw data without imposing preconceptions on the data. Three distinct themes emerged from the analysis, and formed my conceptualisation of the experiences of teachers living with AIDS: a) conflict between teacher as role model and ideal citizen, and teacher as an HIV-positive person: b) HIV illness and its impact on the body of the teacher: c) teachers as emotional actors. The main findings from the study suggest that in a context with AIDS there are limits to what education policy can achieve if it remains out of touch with a real world in which school is attended by children and teachers whose bodies are either infected or affected by the HIV virus. This is substantiated by the fact that while the HIV/AIDS policy is about bodies and about emotions, it is blind to the bodies and the emotions of those implementing it. I contend that it is this oversight that creates the wide gap between policy intentions and outcomes. Secondly the study highlights the uniqueness of HIV/AIDS education policy and its implementation which, unlike other education policies, powerfully brings to the fore the emotions of the implementers. I conclude the study by suggesting that the policy-making process be reconstructed to inscribe the real bodies and real emotions of the teachers into the policy, to shift from a purely prevention mode to one that looks at the whole prevention-to-care continuum and acknowledges that a significant majority of school pupils and teachers are infected and affected.
Book Synopsis Managing the Implementation of Education Policies for Quality Education in Public Schools of Limpopo Province by : Nndwamato Ndou
Download or read book Managing the Implementation of Education Policies for Quality Education in Public Schools of Limpopo Province written by Nndwamato Ndou and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Health of Our Educators written by and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa has a severe HIV/AIDS epidemic. About 5.6 million South Africans, the majority of whom are in the economically active age group, are currently living with the virus. Studies have been conducted to examine the impact of HIV/AIDS on various sectors of the economy, including mining, manufacturing, health and education. The effectiveness and functioning of the public sector is also increasingly threatened by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The education sector is thought to be particularly affected by HIV/ AIDS because both the demand for and supply of educators are affected. Not only do children drop out of school because of HIV/AIDS, thus reducing demand for educators, but educators, school managers and education policy-makers are said to be dying of AIDS, thus reducing supply.
Download or read book Performative Praxis written by Jean Baxen and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely recognized that the South African government's exemplary HIV/AIDS education policy is not making the behaviour-changing impact that it ought. Why is this? What is actually happening in the school classroom? In this book, Jean Baxen makes an important contribution towards understanding the complex interface between the HIV/AIDS education curriculum and what and how teachers are teaching in the classroom. Bringing Judith Butler's theory of performativity to bear in an analysis of the pedagogic practice of a number of teachers in the Western Cape and Mpumalanga, the author shows how teachers' personal conception of their role and identity as educators plays a vitally important role in filtering and shaping the classroom transmission of key information and attitudes.
Book Synopsis Contextual Factors Influencing the Implementation of an HIV & AIDS Programme by : Dirk Nicolaas Van den Berg
Download or read book Contextual Factors Influencing the Implementation of an HIV & AIDS Programme written by Dirk Nicolaas Van den Berg and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary aim of this study was to explore the manner in which contextual factors influence the implementation of HIV & AIDS programmes in schools, by investigating the lived-experiences of teachers who were responsible for the implementation of such programmes. The findings of this study mainly add to the vast body of knowledge on the implementation of the school's curriculum. In addition to this, the study highlights the manner in which educational policy can become a workable instrument by setting parameters for the development of an HIV & AIDS school policy, and for effective implementation of an HIV & AIDS programmes in schools. Furthermore, this study will contribute to addressing the barriers that negatively influence HIV & AIDS programme delivery in schools. Another outcome of this study could be the possible improvement of the training of teachers and curriculum developers. The conceptual framework of the study dealt with the following: a description of the HIV & AIDS pandemic (as a background), the impact of the pandemic in the South African context, expectations and responsibilities of schools and teachers with regard to the implementation of HIV & AIDS programmes, and theories that underpin behaviour change, and form the basis of HIV & AIDS prevention programmes. The important role of the school as a societal agent, and its important role in the prevention of HIV & AIDS infection, emerged clearly in this study. The study was conducted according to a qualitative research approach, guided by the interpretivist and constructivist epistemologies. An instrumental case study design was utilised, during which semi-structured interviews, as the main data collection strategy, were conducted with purposively selected participants from three schools (cases). The individual semi-structured interviews were supplemented with observations, a reflective journal and visual data collection and documentation strategies. Four prominent themes emerged subsequent to an inductive data analysis that was done, namely: teachers' perceptions and experiences of the HIV & AIDS programme, managerial factors in the school, societal and community influences, and HIV & AIDS as a topic in the school subject Life Orientation. These identified and structured themes broadly categorised the empirical findings that were related to the primary and secondary questions of this study. Although the implementation of HIV & AIDS programmes in schools was made compulsory, the study indicated that schools were not adhering to this requirement, due to factors such as a lack of sound management practices in schools, insufficient training of teachers and school managers, uninvolved stakeholders, and the lived-experiences of teachers with regard to the HIV & AIDS programme. Based on the findings of this study, recommendations were made with regard to the role that the Department of Education, school management, teachers and the community can fulfil, in order to improve the implementation of HIV & AIDS programmes in schools. This study also provides a suggested framework for developing and implementing an HIV & AIDS policy for schools, in an effort to prevent HIV & AIDS infection.
Book Synopsis Teachers' and Learners' Experiences of the Implementation of the Progresssion Policy by : Phuti Godfrey Ramputla
Download or read book Teachers' and Learners' Experiences of the Implementation of the Progresssion Policy written by Phuti Godfrey Ramputla and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Investigation Into the Implementation of the National Policy on HIV/AIDS for Learners and Educators in Public Schools, and Students and Educators in Further Education and Training Institutions in Mangaung Secondary Schools in the Motheo District, Free State Province by : Ntombekhaya Adelaide Lubisi
Download or read book An Investigation Into the Implementation of the National Policy on HIV/AIDS for Learners and Educators in Public Schools, and Students and Educators in Further Education and Training Institutions in Mangaung Secondary Schools in the Motheo District, Free State Province written by Ntombekhaya Adelaide Lubisi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Developing Effective Policies for HIV/AIDS Education practice in Sub Saharan Africa: The Case of Urban Schools of Malawi: A synergy of pupils needs, policies and practice by : Paul Makocho
Download or read book Developing Effective Policies for HIV/AIDS Education practice in Sub Saharan Africa: The Case of Urban Schools of Malawi: A synergy of pupils needs, policies and practice written by Paul Makocho and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS has been named the Sub Saharan disease. In countries that have achieved significant declines in HIV prevalence, young people have registered the biggest behavioural changes. It means they hold the keys not only to our understanding of the epidemic, but more importantly, to the efforts required to stem the tide of infections. However, the majority of young people are ignorant of how to prevent transmission, have low compliance to condom use, which is in some cases accentuated by misconceptions about HIV/AIDS transmission and have insufficient knowledge regarding transmission and avoidance behaviours. As such, consensus on feasible preventive interventions target young people, particularly those in schools. It is on this premise that the book unlocks the key pillars in effective HIV/AIDS education policies and practices.The study has drawn upon the experiences of selected Urban Schools in Malawi to explore the needs of young people in classroom, the extent to which the classroom practices respond to the needs, and the factors influencing these using questionnaires, interviews, lesson observations, and document analysis. Malawi typically represents most Sub Saharan African countries in terms of challenges faced by education systems. Given the similar cultural settings of the people of Sub Saharan Africa, the findings and recommendations of the study generalises to the education systems of Sub Saharan Africa to a greater extent. The book shows the need for open discussion climates on HIV/AIDS issues despite a conservative cultural and religious adult world that is not open. It has also identified a need for explicit and accurate knowledge on HIV/AIDS issues, opportunities to acquire behavioural skills for HIV prevention, and involvement of external speakers in classroom HIV/AIDS education.Current classroom practice does not address the pupils‘ needs adequately. Factors influencing this can be linked to lack of policies responsive to culture and religion, ineffective and inadequate teaching policy guidelines, and lack of a policy prioritising HIV/AIDS education. The findings suggest that in future, effective HIV/AIDS Education needs to be informed by the pupils’ needs. To address these needs, support from the wider society and related policies, coupled with appropriate management and classroom practice will be required. The book is therefore an indispensable tool for education systems in Sub Saharan Africa. It provides an effective model for [...]
Book Synopsis HIV/AIDS Education in selected urban schools of Malawi by : Paul Makocho
Download or read book HIV/AIDS Education in selected urban schools of Malawi written by Paul Makocho and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2012 in the subject Social Work, grade: Passed, University of Leeds (School of Education), course: PhD in Science Education, language: English, abstract: The needs of young people in classroom based HIV/AIDS Education in Malawi, the extent to which current classroom practices respond to these needs, and the factors influencing these responses have been explored using questionnaires, interviews, lesson observations, and document analysis. In contrast to previously reported literature on HIV/AIDS Education in Malawi, the present study has drawn pupils’ needs directly from the pupils’ themselves, focussed on classroom practice, and triangulated the various data sets to give a comprehensive picture of HIV/AIDS Education in Malawi. Pupils identified a need for open discussion climates on HIV/AIDS issues despite a conservative cultural and religious adult world that is not open. They also identified a need for explicit and accurate knowledge on HIV/AIDS issues, opportunities to acquire behavioural skills for HIV prevention, and involvement of external speakers. The needs of the pupils have not been adequately addressed by the current classroom practice. Factors which influenced this can be linked to lack of policies that are responsive to culture and religion, ineffective and inadequate teaching policy guidelines, and lack of a policy prioritizing HIV/AIDS education by making it examinable. The findings suggest that in future, effective HIV/AIDS Education needs to be informed by the pupils’ needs. To address these needs, support from the wider society and related policies, coupled with appropriate management and classroom practice will be required. Understanding these lessons is a must for HIV/AIDS curriculum developers, policy makers and implementers in any education system.
Book Synopsis An Investigation Into Management and Implementation of No Fee School Policy on the Access of Education in Limpopo Province, Vhembe District by : Fhatuwani Freddy Musandiwa
Download or read book An Investigation Into Management and Implementation of No Fee School Policy on the Access of Education in Limpopo Province, Vhembe District written by Fhatuwani Freddy Musandiwa and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dissertation Abstracts International by :
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Challenges Facing the Secondary School Teachers in the Implementation of Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement in Mankweng Circuit, Limpopo Province by : Lerato Sebaeng
Download or read book Challenges Facing the Secondary School Teachers in the Implementation of Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement in Mankweng Circuit, Limpopo Province written by Lerato Sebaeng and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Developing Guidelines for Local Role-players to Implement the School-based Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Prevention Programme in Bushbuckridge Mpumalanga by : Connie Balahliye Sekgobela
Download or read book Developing Guidelines for Local Role-players to Implement the School-based Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Prevention Programme in Bushbuckridge Mpumalanga written by Connie Balahliye Sekgobela and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preventing new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are at the heart of South AfricaaÌ22́Ơ4́Øs new National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS, STIs and TB 2012-2016. Following from this strategy, a number of interventions were designed and developed by the government including the Integrated School Health Policy 2012 to prevent new HIV infections and improve the health of children and youth of school-going age. Mpumalanga is the province with the second highest HIV prevalence levels of 34.6%. Particularly, Bushbuckridge Municipality is said to have a higher prevalence of HIV and AIDS than other Municipalities. Having an effective school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme in these areas may reduce the HIV prevalence. Unfortunately, reports reflect that the education sector as well as health services in the area are under severe strain to meet the demands and challenges associated with the socioeconomic determinants of the HIV epidemic. The purpose of the study was to develop and describe guidelines for local role players to implement the HIV and AIDS prevention in local high school settings Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga province. The study was guided by the following research question: iÌ80́(℗ʺ How will guidelines for the role-players to implement the HIV and AIDS prevention in local high school settings Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga Province be developed? The specific objectives of the study were to: iÌ80́(℗ʺ Explore and describe the roles of the local role players in the implementation of the HIV and AIDS prevention programmes in local high school settings. iÌ80́(℗ʺ Explore and describe the challenges experienced by the local role players in the implementation of the HIV and AIDS prevention programme in local high school settings. iÌ80́(℗ʺ Develop and describe guidelines for local role players to implement the HIV and AIDS prevention in local high school settings Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga province. The study was conducted in two phases. The first phase was the empirical phase where exploration and description of the roles of local role players in health teams regarding the implementation of the HIV and AIDS prevention programmes in school settings was done. In addition, the challenges experienced by local role players were explored and discussed. A qualitative, explorative, descriptive design and contextual study was conducted. Its qualitativeness offered the researcher an opportunity to uncover the coordination of services amongst and participation of the local role players to collaborate in ensuring efficient implementation of the HIV and AIDS programme in schools. The population constituted of the local role players who have a designated responsibility in school health teams in the Bushbuckridge area of Mpumalanga province. These role players included members of School Governing Bodies, local non-governmental organisations (NGOs), educators, local clinics, PHC nurses and the health district managers. Data was collected through semistructured focus groups and semi structured individual interviews. Verbatim transcription of the focus group discussions and individual interviews was done. TeschaÌ22́Ơ4́Øs method of data analysis was used to provide detailed guidance for the coding process and analysis. The Social Ecological Model was used as a framework to guide the discussion of the findings in relation to the multiple effects and interrelatedness of social elements in school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programmes. Three major themes were identified: the roles of the local role players, and the challenges as well as suggestions to the implementation of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme. . Five major roles for the local role players were identified, viz; providing HIV and AIDS health services; giving HIV and AIDS education; ensuring collaboration (referral system) between role players and services; educators and nurses view of the programme and monitoring and evaluation of the programme. Educators were found to be key facilitators for the programme while nurses and the NGOs were involved as support and supplementary structures in the implementation of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme. For the second theme, challenges experienced by the role players ranged from departmental challenges, lack of resources and personal barriers. The provision of adequate resources was found to be key to increasing the uptake of the programme. In Phase 2 the empirical evidence obtained in Phase 1 was used to formulate, develop and describe guidelines for local role players to implement HIV and AIDS prevention programmes in high school settings as a package of school health services. The Modified Delphi technique was used to refine the drafted guidelines. Experts from the health and education sectors, including those from HIV and AIDS prevention services from government and NGO sectors as well as health professionals in health promotion services, were used as participants in Phase 2. A three round modified Delphi was done to finalize the guidelines for role-players to implement the school based HIV and AIDS prevention programme in high schools. Six guidelines were developed and described; the custodians of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme are to facilitate strengthening capacity building for the local role players (school health nurses, ward based outreach teams (WBOTs), educators, parents and NGOs) in relation to their roles in the implementation of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme, the custodians of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme are to foster participation and involvement of other local role players (school health nurses, primary healthcare (PHC) nurse, educators, parents and NGOs) in an effort to embrace cultural diversity and enhance the programme uptake within the individualaÌ22́Ơ4́Øs frame of reference, the custodians of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme are to facilitate multi-sectorial collaboration among the local role players, and forming partnerships with key stakeholders from relevant government and non-governmental sector(s) within the different levels, the custodians of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme with the local role players are to promote the implementation of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme, the custodians of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme together with the local role players must have full access to all policies, especially those related to the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme to guide them through the implementation of the programme and the custodians of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme together with the local role players are to develop clear and easily accessible school-based surveillance systems to be implemented by all the local role players to track, monitor and evaluate the progress and impact of the programme including the general practices.These guidelines may form part of the HIV and AIDS prevention programme. Successful development and implementation of the school-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme can result in significant changes in knowledge and attitudes that affect sexual behaviour of young people, leading to significant decreases in HIV infection among young people. The findings of this study are applicable to the context of this study, in the same breathe can be transferable in similar context.
