Performative Praxis
Teacher Identity and Teaching in the Context of HIV/AIDS| By: | Mary Jean Baxen |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| Print ISBN: | 9783039116126 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783035100518 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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It is widely recognized that the South African government’s exemplary HIV/AIDS education policy is not making the behaviour-changing impact that it ought. Why is this? What is actually happening in the school classroom?
In this book, Jean Baxen makes an important contribution towards understanding the complex interface between the HIV/AIDS education curriculum and what and how teachers are teaching in the classroom. Bringing Judith Butler’s theory of performativity to bear in an analysis of the pedagogic practice of a number of teachers in the Western Cape and Mpumalanga, the author shows how teachers’ personal conception of their role and identity as educators plays a vitally important role in filtering and shaping the classroom transmission of key information and attitudes.