Exploring students¿ experiences of an HIV/AIDS service learning module

Jayde Aitken

ISBN 10: 3838359275 / ISBN 13: 9783838359274

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Apr 2010, 2010

Beschreibung

Neuware -This critical interpretivist case study explored students'' experiences of an HIV/AIDS service learning module run in the School of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The study was originally initiated in response to a request from CHESP to evaluate this module. It has since become an independent study with the purpose of exploring the kind of learning (HIV specific) that students gained from the module. A number of studies have attempted to explore students'' experiences of service learning through students'' evaluations, or have focused on the effects of the community intervention on the community. These are often of a quantitative nature and do not engage with students'' experiences on a deeper level. They also tend to focus on measuring students'' knowledge and understandings of HIV/AIDS. The objective of this study was to qualitatively explore whether students had experienced a genuine engagement in the service learning module, focusing on their level of reflection on their identities, their understandings of self and other, and their understandings of their own location within the HIV/AIDS epidemic.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 96 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783838359274

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Exploring students¿ experiences of an HIV/AIDS service learning module
• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Apr 2010
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3838359275
• ISBN-13: 9783838359274
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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This critical interpretivist case study explored students? experiences of an HIV/AIDS service learning module run in the School of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The study was originally initiated in response to a request from CHESP to evaluate this module. It has since become an independent study with the purpose of exploring the kind of learning (HIV specific) that students gained from the module. A number of studies have attempted to explore students? experiences of service learning through students? evaluations, or have focused on the effects of the community intervention on the community. These are often of a quantitative nature and do not engage with students' experiences on a deeper level. They also tend to focus on measuring students? knowledge and understandings of HIV/AIDS. The objective of this study was to qualitatively explore whether students had experienced a genuine engagement in the service learning module, focusing on their level of reflection on their identities, their understandings of self and other, and their understandings of their own location within the HIV/AIDS epidemic.