Educational research within postcolonial Africa: a critique of HIV/AIDS research in Botswana
Educational research within postcolonial Africa: a critique of HIV/AIDS research in Botswana
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DOI：
10.1080/09518390500298170
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Chilisa, Bagele
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作者：
Chilisa, Bagele
本文从后殖民透镜的视角，指出后殖民社会的主流研究仍然忽视、边缘化和压制其他知识体系和认识方式。有人认为，地方知识体系的边缘化是在殖民时代形成的，当时所有土著或殖民社区的东西都被认为是不值得、不文明、野蛮和迷信的。在殖民时代，有系统地努力将西方的文化、经济、政治和社会制度纳入其中，在独立后的时代，这种努力仍在继续。教育制度没有摆脱被殖民主体的殖民结构及其被贬为异类的现象。在争取独立的斗争多年后，教学内容、教学方法和研究方法在非西方环境中仍然是西方的。这不仅使“其他人”与他们自己的知识体系疏远，而且正如艾滋病毒/艾滋病宣传和教育运动所表明的那样，这可能是一个生死攸关的问题。该文件利用艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究的摘录，强调传统/西方研究知识和框架所合法化的预防艾滋病毒/艾滋病传播的干预措施使人们远离了防止病毒传播的斗争。在当前的预防战略框架内分析了博茨瓦纳关于艾滋病毒/艾滋病的一些研究的结果，更具体地说，分析了防治艾滋病毒/艾滋病运动中使用的海报和漫画，以说明其他知识体系的边缘化以及“他者”意识形态与主流第一世界研究方法的交叉。
This paper uses the postcolonial lens to highlight that mainstream research in postcolonial societies still ignores, marginalizes and suppresses other knowledge systems and ways of knowing. The marginalization of local knowledge systems, it is argued, was established in the colonial times that relegated all things indigenous or from the colonized communities as unworthy, uncivilized, barbaric and superstitious. Systematic efforts to inscribe Western ways of cultural, economic, political and social systems were applied during the colonial times and maintained in the post-independence era. The educational system did not escape the colonial construction of the colonized subjects and their relegation to otherness. Years after the struggle for independence the content of what is taught, methods of teaching and research remain Western in non-Western contexts. This does not only alienate the 'othered' from their own knowledge systems, it can be a matter of life and death as demonstrated by the HIV/AIDS information and education campaign. Using excerpts from studies on HIV/AIDS, the paper highlights that interventions to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, legitimized by conventional/Western research knowledge and frameworks, have alienated the people from the struggle to prevent the spread of the virus. Findings from a number of research studies on HIV/AIDS in Botswana are analyzed within the framework of current prevention strategies, more specifically posters and cartoons used in the campaign against HIV/AIDS, to illustrate the marginalization of other knowledge systems and the intersection of the 'otherness' ideology with mainstream First World research methodologies.