Friday, October 17, 2008

How do children understand and construct stigma in the context of HIV/AIDS?: Julia

Julia Goodall is a student at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Her presentation focuses on the social process of othering, an aspect of how people perceive and construct stigma in their specific social settings. . An understanding of how and why people employ othering is integral to the success of future HIV/AIDS interventions. This study indicated that the process of othering might be a necessary psychological response which is employed in an attempt to cope with having to live with HIV/AIDS.

5 Comments:

At October 17, 2008 at 4:54 AM , Blogger Research Masters said...

when you mentioned about asking about if someone has hiv/aids I thought it was interesting that there might be a problem with children undersatnding that hiv/aids was..

interesting presentation, themes with children are also interesting

 
At October 17, 2008 at 4:56 AM , Blogger Research Masters said...

in the sense of working with children and asking children questions, sensitivity of how questions are framed are importnat to note, eg: leading questions

 
At October 17, 2008 at 5:01 AM , Blogger Research Masters said...

well done julia, i think this was really a good presentation and the research itself seems very interesting.
good job
Nudhar

 
At October 17, 2008 at 5:02 AM , Blogger Research Masters said...

That was a great one Julia. I liked the fact that you were able to answer the questions posed with ease and acknowledged some of the good comments made.You're good.

Onini

 
At October 17, 2008 at 5:27 AM , Blogger Research Masters said...

I acknowledge the standard of your presentation. my suggestion is that those young learners might seem to have been sent by elders to stigmatise that particular person. i think stigma reduction workshop should also be conducted at a low academic level

Vusumuzi Malunga: hsrc

 

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