Understanding Hiv/AIDS in a Ghanaian Culture

ISBN-13: 9783838300146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 88 str.

Tsikata, Daniel Mawuli

Opis

HIV/AIDS has been identified as one of the mainchallenges facing the world. The adolescents withvisual impairment in Ghana seem to be most at risk.The school as modern system accepts the blind andeducate them in the residential settings. The causesof HIV/AIDS are based on both traditional beliefs andscientific reasoning. The Ghana government acceptsideas through traditional practitioners which are notpossible in the new thinking. The book highlights thegovernments support for the role of the home basedon strong traditional beliefs and practices and therole of the school based on modernity; this seemsdouble-mindedness - recognizing traditional ideas andmodern ideas; this dilemma is signaling a difficultsituation. Today the visually impaired and thegovernment are both caught in-between tradition andmodernity. The cultural aspects that create thevulnerability to HIV seem important to reflect upon -both in Ghana and elsewhere. This book serves aspolicy guideline for interventionists such as: thepoliticians, NGOs, teachers, parents or anyone else.

O autorze

TSIKATA, DANIEL MAWULI
Daniel M. Tsikata, M.Phil in Multicultural and int. Educ. at OsloUniv Col.; M.Phil in Special Needs Educ. at Univ. of Oslo.Educationists and participant in int. Conference in Mythsfairytale conference in Copenhagen and Oslo in 2001. Visitinglecturer at pre-sch. Dept in Oslo Univ. Col. in 2004 and 2005.