Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS: exploring the narratives of affected young adults in the Cape Flats
| dc.contributor.author | De Lannoy, Ariane | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-29T08:26:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-29T08:26:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-29T08:16:20Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper analyses how HIV and AIDS affects decisions around education. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with eight young adults, as part of a larger study into educational decision-making among young Black African adults in general. Results indicate that HIV and AIDS heighten psychological problems including stress, insecurity and anxiety, as identified by psychological research. HIV and AIDS add an extra layer to the already existing complexity and fragility of young people's lives and worlds. But no evidence was found that affected young people would more readily make negative decisions about education, or would orient their values, attitudes and behaviour towards the short- rather than the long-term. The AIDS-affected young people in the sample shape their identities by focusing on future success, albeit within a world characterised by fragility, in ways that are similar to non-affected young people. Positive educational decision-making is clearly an integral part of those young people who choose to regard their current situation of deprivation as temporal and to use education as a vehicle towards future success. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | De Lannoy, A. (2007). <i>Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS: exploring the narratives of affected young adults in the Cape Flats</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19317 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | De Lannoy, Ariane <i>Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS: exploring the narratives of affected young adults in the Cape Flats.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19317 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | De Lannoy, A. (2007). Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS: exploring the narratives of affected young adults in the Cape Flats. Centre for Social Science Research: University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - De Lannoy, Ariane AB - This paper analyses how HIV and AIDS affects decisions around education. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with eight young adults, as part of a larger study into educational decision-making among young Black African adults in general. Results indicate that HIV and AIDS heighten psychological problems including stress, insecurity and anxiety, as identified by psychological research. HIV and AIDS add an extra layer to the already existing complexity and fragility of young people's lives and worlds. But no evidence was found that affected young people would more readily make negative decisions about education, or would orient their values, attitudes and behaviour towards the short- rather than the long-term. The AIDS-affected young people in the sample shape their identities by focusing on future success, albeit within a world characterised by fragility, in ways that are similar to non-affected young people. Positive educational decision-making is clearly an integral part of those young people who choose to regard their current situation of deprivation as temporal and to use education as a vehicle towards future success. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS: exploring the narratives of affected young adults in the Cape Flats TI - Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS: exploring the narratives of affected young adults in the Cape Flats UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19317 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19317 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | De Lannoy A. Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS: exploring the narratives of affected young adults in the Cape Flats. 2007 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19317 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Educational decision-making in an era of AIDS: exploring the narratives of affected young adults in the Cape Flats | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |