Preparing teachers for HIV/AIDS education: integrated and interdisciplinary pre-service teacher education

• Main Author: Linda van Laren
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: AOSIS 2011-12-01
• Series: South African Journal of Childhood Education
• Subjects: self-study; HIV/AIDS education; pre-service teachers; integrated programme
• Online Access: https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/79

This article focuses on the views of pre-service teachers regarding an appropriate model for integrating HIV/AIDS education at a Faculty of Education. The final-year foundation and intermediate phase teachers were introduced to integrating HIV/AIDS education in Mathematics education and reflected on their four years of training. By using self-study methodology, the opinions and experiences of pre-service teachers of the two models of HIV/AIDS education in teacher preparation were explored, aiming to improve the manner in which pre-service teachers could be prepared to teach in the social and educational context of HIV/AIDS. The pre-service teachers indicated that they are under-prepared to teach in this context. Pre-service teachers were of the opinion that they could, however, be better prepared through HIV/AIDS teacher education that includes both discipline/subject and integrated models of teacher education