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Building Scientific Literacy in HIV/AIDS Education: A case study of Uganda
(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. ...
Meeting the Challenge of Health Literacy in Rural Uganda: The Critical Role of Women and Local Modes of Communication
(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 ...
Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes for HIV/AIDS Among Ugandan Grade 11 Students
(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 ...
Experiments in Visual Analysis: (Re)positionings of children and youth in relation to Larger Sociocultural Issues
(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 ...
Languaging for life: African youth talk back to HIV/AIDS research
(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 ...
‘Talk what others think you can’t talk’: HIV/AIDS clubs as peer education in Ugandan schools
(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 ...
Multimodality and English education in Ugandan schools
(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 ...
ICT on the Margins: Lessons for Ugandan Education
(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 ...