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Title: Implementing Freirean Perspectives in HIV-AIDS Education Among Preliterate Guatemalan Maya Immigrants (Report)
Author : Journal of Thought
Release Date : January 22, 2008
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 215 KB

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The focus of this study was on a HIV-AIDS education project undertaken as a facet of a broader Family Literacy Program (FLP), implemented within a Guatemalan Maya immigrant community in south Florida. Project participants had typically experienced between 0-3 years of formal education in their home countries, had limited reading and writing skills in any language, and lived in an area designated by Public Health Agencies as an HIV-AIDS "hot zone" where the spread of the disease was unusually high (Barton, 2004). The Maya were typically not included in County Public Health statistics, which were limited to the categories of White, Black, and Latino, thereby making the Maya publicly invisible in this crisis, even though they were, perhaps, the most vulnerable population. This article is based on two years of action research conducted in the context of the HIV-AIDS education project. The project was spearheaded by an HIV-AIDS educator (referred to as "the project educator" in this article) who had been trained and certified by the American Red Cross and the State and County Departments of Public Health. She was supported by the Director (referred to as "the director" in this article) of the Family Literacy Program that had operated within the community for the past 13 years. (Both of them will be referred to as "the educators" in this article.) The project, still in operation, consists of a series of instructional sessions developed from American Red Cross materials but adapted, through extensive research, to address the cultural backgrounds of the diverse audiences which, in the first two years, totaled 1,424 participants. This is the first of multiple studies surrounding this program. As such, it was guided by the following questions that were intentionally broad-based, exploratory and descriptive in nature.