Demographic Factors Affecting Science Teachers’ Perspective On Hiv/aids Education In Secondary Schools
Chapter One
Preface
Background to the Study
Over the once several times, HIV/ AIDS has attracted as important attention in transnational circles as other pressing global challenges, similar as war, terrorism, and environmental desolation, amongothers.World Health Organization( WHO) has declared HIV/ AIDS to be one of the first global health extremities and a direct trouble to public health worldwide. The exploration shows that HIV/ AIDS is the alternate most extensively dispersed contagious complaint and the sixth most common cause of mortality worldwide.( WHO, 2004). Around 65 million people have been affected by AIDS, and further than 25 million people have failed from AIDS- related causes, according to UNAIDS( 2006). By 2020, 29 million new infections are prognosticated to do if forestallment and treatment aren’t accelerated. This makes the dilemma vastly worse. Although several nations have claimed success in reducing the number of HIV infections, the exploration also observes that the overall infection rate is rising. This is stated in the United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals( MDGs) for 2006. Sub-Saharan Africa is still seen as having been most poorly affected( SSA). The top cause of mortality among grown-ups in Africa, according to the WHO( 2004), is HIV/ AIDS. According to estimates, infections linked to AIDS are responsible for around3.1 of deaths among men and3.9 of deaths among women. According to a data distance released by UNAIDS in 2006, 63 percent of all HIV/ AIDS infections worldwide are located in Africa, south of the Sahara, with the prevalence rate being loftiest among people between the periods of 15 and 49. African heads of state declared a state of exigency throughout the mainland during the African Development Forum owing to the AIDS epidemic’s rapid-fire expansion. What’s the purpose of this?( 2000).
Mbanya, Martyn, and Paul( 2018) assert that the sickness has a large socioeconomic impact. High sanitarium bed residency is therefore passing more constantly and affecting an expanding range of geographic areas. They continue by claiming that this trespassed medical staff puts further strain on the health and education sectors, where it has been noted that preceptors are less productive in a number of ways and morbidity is rising as a result of opportunistic infections. The country’s sweats to ameliorate its social and profitable conditions are obviously significantly hampered by the fact that around 42 of its population is under the age of 18.( Population Reference Bureau, 2009).
It’s not a new circumstance that a course on health and good has been added to the class. Looking at the elaboration of the class in Nigerian seminaries reveals the numerous different ways that have been used to address health- related issues. People in Nigeria’s functionary and informal education systems tried to include assignments on population and family life in the classes as early as the 1980s. By 1985, both inferior secondary academy( JSS) and elderly secondary academy( SSS) classes included instruction in reproductive health. These motifs included biology, integrated wisdom, physical and health education, home economics, and religious and moral education. Globalization has had a mischievous effect on numerous angles of our social actuality. One effect of the disordered social life of our people as a total is the HIV/ AIDS epidemic.
Unexpectedly, despite multitudinous sweats to educate our people on sexual issues and to convert them to use condoms in order to limit their conduct, there has not been important progress in precluding HIV/ AIDS. While this is appaling, stduies has shown that incorporating forums on HIV/ AIDS and its Curriculum Development in secondary seminaries is crucial to bridling the spread of the conditions. Olusola Adara( 2003) is of the opinion that secondary academy wisdom preceptors suppose that tutoring pupil about HIV/ AIDS in the classroom will stop the epidemic that’s brought on by the illness indeed though this negotiable as factors like preceptors experience, position of education, position( pastoral or civic), religion could block with their perception on how effective this strategy would be, against the background that anteceded the need for this study
Statement of the Problem
The number of persons who have passed away as a result of complications related to HIV/ AIDS has steadily increased throughout the times. Claims and causes regarding the actuality of HIV/ AIDS treatments have been made by a variety of individualities. Studies conducted by scientists have shown that there’s presently no treatment or cure available for HIV/ AIDS. preceptors of wisdom in secondary seminaries have come to the conclusion that tutoring HIV/ AIDS education in seminaries may be employed as a armament in the war against AIDS as a result of the dilemma that people have been forced into as a result of the absence of a cure for the enervating HIV/ AIDS.
As opine by Omolade( 2019) One academy of study held the view that in order to address the issue of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic, a new academy content should be created specifically for the purpose of diving this issue. still, there’s another academy of study that contends the addition of tutoring about HIV/ AIDS will be an attempt to overload the formerly overcrowded academy motifs and over work the preceptors. Owing to the differences in the ideas of scholars the problem of this study is designed to demographic variables impacting wisdom preceptors perception towards the addition of HIV/ AIDS education in secondary seminaries.
Purpose Of This Study
The purpose of this study is to probe demographic variables impacting wisdom preceptors perception towards the addition of HIV/ AIDS education in secondaryschools.Other specific objects includes
To ascertain whether position influences perception of wisdom preceptors ’ on HIV/ AIDS education addition in secondary seminaries.
ii. To probe whether tutoring experience influences perception of wisdom preceptors ’ on HIV/ AIDS education addition in secondary seminaries.
iii. To determine whether educational qualifications influences perception of wisdom preceptors ’ on HIV/ AIDS education addition in secondary seminaries.
iv. To examine whether gender influences perception of wisdom preceptors ’ on HIV/ AIDS education addition in secondary seminaries.
Exploration Questions
Does academy position influences perception of wisdom preceptors ’ on HIV/ AIDS education addition in secondary seminaries?
ii. Does tutoring experience influences perception of wisdom preceptors ’ on HIV/ AIDS education addition in secondary seminaries?
iii. Does educational qualifications determine perception of wisdom preceptors ’ on HIV/ AIDS education addition in secondary seminaries?
iv. Does gender influences perception of wisdom preceptors ’ on HIV/ AIDS education addition in secondary seminaries?
Significance Of The Study
The study will be of great benefit to preceptors, preceptors, class inventors, authors, parents, scholars and the general society. To the preceptors, the findings will show their current view on HIV/ AIDS education in secondary academy. The study shall give correct analysis of tutoring which will help to reshape effects for better. It’ll also give remedial strategies in the reconstruction of academy class. The findings of the study will be of great significance to class contrivers in planning for class programme in seminaries. It’ll help them to know what to include in the content of the class so as to help break the problem of HIV/ AIDS epidemic. To the preceptors, the finding of the will let them see the need to give necessary in- service programme similar as factory, forums etc. for preceptors so as to increase their chops in tutoring. To the authors, the finding of the study will help to structure their books in such a way that will simplify the content of the syllabus to the scholars. By the results of this study, authors will organize contents of their handbooks in such a way that scholars will be suitable to manage with themes of HIV/ AIDS. The result of the study will also serve as base for farther exploration work in the area of using education to break the problems of HIV/ AIDS.
1. 6 Compass Of The Study
The compass of this study borders on a demographic variables impacting wisdom preceptors perception towards the addition of HIV/ AIDS education in secondary seminaries. The study still demarcated to named secondary academy in Uyo original government area in Akwaibom State.
Limitation Of The Study
Like in every mortal bid, the experimenters encountered slight constraints while carrying out the study. The significant constraint was the skimp literature on the subject owing that it’s a new converse therefore the experimenter incurred more fiscal charges and important time was needed in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature, or information and in the process of data collection, which is why the experimenter resorted to a limited choice of sample size covering only named secondary academy in Uyo original government area in Akwaibom State. therefore findings of this study can not be used for conception for secondary seminaries in other countries within Nigeria. also, the experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work will stymie maximum devotion to the exploration. Howbeit, despite the constraint encountered during the exploration, all factors were played down in other to give the stylish and make the exploration successful.
Functional Description Of Terms
The following terms are defined for the purpose of this study
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Condom Thin rubber covering wear and tear on penis to cover sexual complaint during intercourse
Defile Proof wrong
Deplete To reduce commodity by large number
Dilemma unwelcome thing or action
Epidemic complaint attacking numerous people at the same time
HIV Human Immune Deficiency Syndrome which leads to AIDS
Perception To view or feeling about an issue
palladium commodity done to help unborn trouble.
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