Browsing Faculty of Education by Author "Mutonyi, Harriet"
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Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes for HIV/AIDS Among Ugandan Grade 11 Students
Mutonyi, Harriet (Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2007)This article looks at the importance of student-generated analogies, metaphors, and similes as an entry point into their understandings of HIV/AIDS. In addition, it argues that analogies, metaphors, and similes are good ... -
Building Scientific Literacy in HIV/AIDS Education: A case study of Uganda
Mutonyi, Harriet; Nielsen, Wendy; Nashon, Samson (2007)The term scientific literacy is defined differently in different contexts. The term literacy simply refers to the ability for one to read and write, but recent studies in language literacy have extended this definition. ... -
Cartoon drawing as a means of accessing what students know about HIV/AIDS: an alternative method
Mutonyi, Harriet; Kendrick, E. Maureen (Visual Communication, 2011)Combating the spread of HIV/AIDS in Uganda has involved massive public education campaigns. One of the challenges of these campaigns has always involved the need to simultaneously respect and transcend cultural taboos ... -
Experiments in Visual Analysis: (Re)positionings of children and youth in relation to Larger Sociocultural Issues
Kendrick, Maureen; Rogers, Theresa; Toohey, Kelleen; Marshall, Elizabeth; Mutonyi, Harriet; Hauge, Chelsey; Siegel, Marjorie; Rowsell, Jennifer (2007)One of the most distinctive features of the 21st Century is the dominance of the visual and its relationship to multiple modalities of communication. Human experience is more visual and visualized than ever before ... -
ICT on the Margins: Lessons for Ugandan Education
Mutonyi, Harriet; Norton, Bonny (Language and Education, 2007)In this end piece, we argue that while this special issue shifts debates on the digital divide to address students’ capacity to use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for productive social purposes, access ... -
Languaging for life: African youth talk back to HIV/AIDS research
Norton, Bonny; Mutonyi, Harriet (Language Policy, 2008)In this article, we present a case study, undertaken in Uganda, in which 12 young people debated and critiqued four research articles on HIV/AIDS relevant to Ugandan youth. The rationale for the study was to provide ... -
Meeting the Challenge of Health Literacy in Rural Uganda: The Critical Role of Women and Local Modes of Communication
Kendrick, Maureen; Mutonyi, Harriet (Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007)This article seeks to better understand the relation between local and traditional modes of communication and health literacy within the context of a rural West Nile community in Northern Uganda. Drawing on social semiotics ... -
Multimodality and English education in Ugandan schools
Kendrick, Maureen; Jones, Shelley; Mutonyi, Harriet; Norton, Bonny (English Studies in Africa, 2006)In all societies children have many layers of representational resources Ia vailable to them. Play, movement, song, drama, language and artistic activity are but some of the modalities by which they learn to make sense of ... -
Perceptual Influence of Ugandan Biology Students’ Understanding of HIV/AIDS
Mutonyi, Harriet; Nashon, Samson; Nielsen, Wendy S. (2010)In Uganda, curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS has largely depended on public and private media messages about the disease. Media campaigns based on Uganda’s cultural norms of communication are metaphorical, analogical and ... -
Stories, proverbs, and anecdotes as scaffords for learning science concepts.
Mutonyi, Harriet (2015)Few research studies in science education have looked at how stories, proverbs, and anecdotes can be used as scaffolds for learning. Stories, proverbs, and anecdotes are cultural tools used in indigenous communities to ... -
‘Talk what others think you can’t talk’: HIV/AIDS clubs as peer education in Ugandan schools
Norton, Bonny; Mutonyi, Harriet (Compare, 2007)The clubs will do peer education; the clubs will be a forum for affected students to share their experiences. (HIV/AIDS Technical Advisor, Ministry of Education, 4 October 2004) The clubs extend what we do in the ...