Teachers and Teaching

Abstract:
[ARCHIVED] This article describes the content and pedagogy of an action-oriented, semester long undergraduate course taught on AIDS at the University if New York College at Purchase in the spring of 1990. The course not only teaches risk-reduction behavior but also explores the deeper causes of the AIDS epidemic: the social forces that grant differential access to information, health care, and social services for people of different race, gender, sexual orientation, and social class. The author suggests that successful AIDS educational efforts should also be designed to help students combat their pervasive feelings of powerlessness by actively involving them in efforts to end the AIDS crisis. Author provides a critique and evaluation of the content and pedagogy of the course, shares students' reactions to the class, and makes suggestions for designing similar courses.

Author(s): Christensen, Kimberly

Publication: Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 61, No. 3


Date Published: 8/1/1991

Pages: 21

Location Code: 2066