Exploring a Third Space for Sustainable Educational Development—HIV/AIDS Prevention, Zambia

Autor: Ellen Carm
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Sociology of scientific knowledge
Geography
Planning and Development
TJ807-830
050109 social psychology
Context (language use)
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
TD194-195
multi-
levelled and voiced strategy
localization
Renewable energy sources
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Voiced strategies
medicine
decolonized approach
GE1-350
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Sociology
HIV/AIDS prevention
transformation
cultural historical activity theory
Western and Indigenous epistemologies
third space
sustainable development
Traditional knowledge
Levelled strategies
Cultural historical activity theories
Sustainable development
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
05 social sciences
Stakeholder
050301 education
Activity theory
Public relations
medicine.disease
Environmental sciences
Sustainable developments
Decolonized approaches
Preventive action
business
0503 education
Zdroj: Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 4, p 946 (2018)
Sustainability
Sustainability; Volume 10; Issue 4; Pages: 946
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su10040946
Popis: This study was conducted in Zambia from 2002 to 2008, a country greatly affected by the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)/AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) epidemic. The global, national, as well as local discourses on spread and mitigation were clustered around scientific knowledge and the local context and cultural traditions. The education sector struggled with implementing the national HIV/AIDS education strategy but by a broader stakeholder involvement, and a close collaboration between the educational sector and tribal chiefs and their traditional internal structures, a localized approach emerged. The overall objective of the paper is to illustrate how a multi-voiced strategy can bring about sustainable change, illustrated by this study. The study used qualitative constructivist and grounded theoretical approaches, and applied the third generation of cultural and historical activity theory (CHAT) as an analytical tool. Bernstein’s concept, symbolic control, contributes to a broader understanding of the underlying processes and outcomes of the study. The findings revealed that the strategically monitored multi-voiced participation of local stakeholders created a learning space where both scientific and indigenous knowledge were blended, and thereby creating solutions to preventive action meeting the local needs. The study exemplifies these processes by identifying contradictions between the various levels and activity systems involved, by listing some of their characteristics, manifestations and finally their negotiated solutions. These solutions, or the third space interventions, the outcome of the multi-voiced participation, is in the paper used to explore a theoretical framework for an ethical and decolonized development strategy; a precondition for sustained local development.
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