From microscope to kaleidoscope : : reconsidering educational aspects related to children in the HIV & AIDS pandemic / / Liesel Ebersöhn.

• VerfasserIn: Ebersöhn, L.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

What new understandings concerning children and significant others in their life-worlds have become apparent because of the HIV & AIDS pandemic? This innovative book argues that new insights on education and psychosocial aspects surface when research in the realm of HIV & AIDS is viewed through a positive psychology lens. By converging in-depth exploration and description, the book pinpoints vital persons supporting children’s wellbeing, and posits changed roles due to pandemic-related stressors. The significance of different education role-players (children, teachers, caregivers, community-members) is addressed in separate chapters, using pioneering theory and empirical data that are integrated with dynamic case examples, visual data and narratives. Ebersöhn’s edited book emphasises supportive persons and networks as buffers children access to mediate their coping when confronted by HIV & AIDS-related stressors. Throughout, the links between psychosocial support, changed roles and responsibilities, and resilience in the advent of adversity are clearly and thoughtfully demonstrated. A concluding chapter questions why and what happens to children’s wellbeing when society fails to provide supportive networks and services.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Liesel Ebersöhn -- Liaising the Microscope and Kaleidoscope / Liesel Ebersöhn -- Negotiating Resilience in Children Affected by HIV&AIDS / Irma Eloff -- Facilitating Agency for School-Based Support in Teachers through Asset Mobilisation / Tilda Loots -- The Memory-Box Making Technique as a Tool for Community Care and Support / Ancois Swanepoel -- Pastoral Support Competencies of Teachers Subsequent to Memory-Box Making / Tilda Loots and Maria Mnguni -- Using Intervention Research to Facilitate Community-Based Coping with HIV&AIDS / Ronél Ferreira -- Finding Roses amongst Thorns: / Kesh Mohangi -- The Psychosocial Effects of Orphanhood on Children / Mokgadi Kekae-Moletsane -- Voicing Children’s Perceptions of Safety and Unsafety in their Life-Worlds / Carien Lubbe and Ruth Mampane -- The Impact of HIV&AIDS upon the Developmental Tasks of Adolescent Girls in Child-Headed Households / Jyothi Chabilall and Cycil Hartell -- Teachers Living with HIV&AIDS: / Patricia Machawira -- How Teachers Understand and Respond to the Emerging Needs of Orphaned Children / Teresa Ogina -- A Commentary: Metaphors of Transformation / Centre for the Study of Aids.