Mathabo Khau
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3918003 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mathabo Khau |
| NOMBRES | Mathabo |
| APELLIDO | Khau |
| FIRMA | KHAU M |
| AFILIACIONES | Nelson Mandela University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8933-0553 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Understanding the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse in selected special schools, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Although sexual violence against children is a global problem, it is more pervasive in some regions than others. South Africa is one such context where there is a close connection between the social environment and child sexual abuse (CSA). Despite the government’s efforts mandating the reporting of CSA, its prevalence remains high and has become a significant health and societal issue. In this article, I explore how school management teams (SMT)…
Using Drama Pedagogy to Enhance Understanding of HIV Transmission, Infection, and Prevention Among Third-Year Student Teachers
Thirty-eight years into the HIV and AIDS pandemic, the world is still striving to reduce global HIV infections towards zero new infections and AIDS-related deaths by 2030. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to carry the burden of global HIV infections as governmental and nongovernmental agencies try out different prevention strategies (UNAIDS, 2024b). Several scholars have argued that comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is the best preventive strat…
Women educators’ narratives on intimate partner violence
The study sought to answer: How can participatory and visual methodology enable women teachers to lead change against intimate partner violence (IPV) at a state university in Zimbabwe? The study was qualitative and informed by the critical paradigm and employed visual participatory research methodology. Six women educators from a state university were selected by means of snowballing. The methods of data generation that were employed were drawing…
Teaching for Comfort or Diversity in Comprehensive Sexuality Education Classrooms? Third-Year Student Teachers' Perspectives
Discussion of sexual rights in the context of disability is an often neglected and underdeveloped terrain within the human rights discourse, worldwide. More so, it becomes taboo to discuss the sexual health and reproductive rights of adolescents living with disabilities. This group of adolescents are often constructed as being sexually innocent, asexual, or lacking sexual agency thus denying their sexual autonomy. In other contexts, adolescents l…
Rethinking Constructions of Difference
Discrimination according to gender has been in practice in communities globally since time immemorial. This discrimination has infiltrated all spheres of life including the naming, shaming, blaming, and persecution of deviant people as witches. The phenomenon of witchcraft has historically been negatively skewed towards women, with women's gender and sexual diversity being used against them in accusations of witchcraft. In some modern-day African…
Exploring understandings of sexual consent amongst Life Orientation student-teachers through intergroup dialogue
In this article, the author reports on how intergroup dialogue was used amongst Life Orientation (LO) student-teachers to deconstruct the heteropatriarchal notions of sexual consent, in the context of gender-based violence (GBV). Three sessions of intergroup dialogue were arranged between third-year student-teachers and female survivors of GBV from a local Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) in exploring the perceptions of sexual consent, to deepen the…
Using tableaus to explore teachers’ perceptions of how unequal power relations contribute to the spread of HIV and Aids
The article explores pre-and in-service teachers' perceptions of how unequal power relations contribute towards the spread of HIV and AIDS. The sample, consisting of 19 teachers; 6 pre-service teachers from a Higher Education Institution and 13 in-service teachers from a rural primary school shared their views, through the use of tableaus, on how power relations between males and females contributed towards HIV and AIDS.The findings, emerging fro…
Using Collages to Change School Governing Body Perceptions of Male Foundation Phase Teachers
The paper explores how collages can be used to change school governing body (SGB) members' perceptions of male teachers in the foundation phase (FP) in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, South Africa. The involvement of men in FP teaching forms part of initiatives to diversify and do away with the underrepresentation of men in the early years of learning. SGBs play an integral role in the recruitment and retaining of teachers in schools, but not much …
Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers teaching sexuality education in the HIV and Aids education curriculum
In spite of the importance of sexuality education and HIV and AIDS education in preventing HIV infections, Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers are not engaging optimally with the current Guidance and Counseling, HIV and AIDS & Life Skills education curriculum, and hence, they are not serving the needs of the learners in the context of the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The aim of the study, therefore, was to explore how Guidance …
Understanding gender, sexuality and HIV risk in HEIs
Thirty years into the HIV&AIDS pandemic, the world is still striving to reduce new HIV infections and halve AIDS related deaths by 2015. However, sub-Saharan Africa still faces the burden of HIV infections as governments and private institutions try out different prevention strategies (UNAIDS 2011). Several scholars have argued that multiple concurrent sexual partnerships (MCSP) pose the greatest risk for new HIV infections. Furthermore, research…
Using participatory and visual arts-based methodologies to promote sustainable teaching and learning ecologies
The National Framework for Quality Education in Rural Areas (DoE, 2006) draws attention to education in rural ecologies and scrutinises the role of HEIs in developing teachers who understand the diverse contexts and who are able to facilitate quality teaching and learning in such contexts. Drawing from the project 'New teachers for new times: Visual methodologies for social change in rural education in the age of AIDS', this article explores how …
Sexuality education in rural Lesotho schools
The aim of this paper is to present and discuss some of the obstacles to effective sexuality education in rural Lesotho schools and offer some suggestions that could facilitate positive change in the current status of sexuality education. The call for education as a ‘vaccine’ against new HIV infections places teachers at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic, and thus it is imperative to understand how they experience teaching about sex…
Female sexual pleasure and autonomy
Female sexuality is a highly policed domain within many societies with women and girls being violated daily in relation to performing their gendered and sexual identities. This article explores the politics of inner labia elongation, and the socially constructed notions of genital beauty through the lens of gendered violence. It highlights the silences around sexual pleasure and desire for Basotho women through discussing the importance of labial…
Letters to those who Dare Feel
Using reflective letter-writing as a method of generating data, a group of four researchers embarked on a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry into the emotional dimensions of researching social aspects of HIV & AIDS. In this article, we use the medium of a narrative dialogue to represent and re-examine our reflective letter-writing method. The dialogue draws attention to key features of reflective letter-writing as a collaborative autoethnogra…
More than a decade of addressing HIV and Aids in education in South Africa
Growing Up a Girl in a Developing Country
Girls' reproductive health matters are an important factor in their equal participation in educational settings. However, many girls worldwide still face challenges to participating fully in education because of the lack of supportive structures for their health needs. This paper uses autoethnographic writing to highlight some of the challenges that girls meet in school because of menstruation. It also discusses how a teacher's lived experiences …
Exploring sexual customs
Issues of sexuality remain taboo in many African communities, with girlhood sexuality being a highly policed domain. This creates a lot of challenges for girls as they negotiate the spaces between being a girl-child and a sexual being. This paper explores the gendered politics of elongating the inner labia among Basotho girls and the socially constructed notions of proper girlhood. I draw from a study which explored the memories of adolescent sex…
But he is my husband! How can that be rape?’
In Lesotho, where there are very high HIV infection rates among teenagers and young adults, most of whom are girls and women, it is surprising to find that women teachers are unwilling to talk about rape within the context of sexual relationships and its links to HIV infections. This briefing seeks to explain the reluctance of Basotho women to talk about experiences of date and marital rape by examining the power dynamics within sexual relationsh…
Letters to those who Dare Feel
Using reflective letter-writing as a method of generating data, a group of four researchers embarked on a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry into the emotional dimensions of researching social aspects of HIV & AIDS. In this article, we use the medium of a narrative dialogue to represent and re-examine our reflective letter-writing method. The dialogue draws attention to key features of reflective letter-writing as a collaborative autoethnogra…
Using Collages to Change School Governing Body Perceptions of Male Foundation Phase Teachers
The paper explores how collages can be used to change school governing body (SGB) members' perceptions of male teachers in the foundation phase (FP) in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, South Africa. The involvement of men in FP teaching forms part of initiatives to diversify and do away with the underrepresentation of men in the early years of learning. SGBs play an integral role in the recruitment and retaining of teachers in schools, but not much …
Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers teaching sexuality education in the HIV and Aids education curriculum
In spite of the importance of sexuality education and HIV and AIDS education in preventing HIV infections, Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers are not engaging optimally with the current Guidance and Counseling, HIV and AIDS & Life Skills education curriculum, and hence, they are not serving the needs of the learners in the context of the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The aim of the study, therefore, was to explore how Guidance …
But he is my husband! How can that be rape?’
In Lesotho, where there are very high HIV infection rates among teenagers and young adults, most of whom are girls and women, it is surprising to find that women teachers are unwilling to talk about rape within the context of sexual relationships and its links to HIV infections. This briefing seeks to explain the reluctance of Basotho women to talk about experiences of date and marital rape by examining the power dynamics within sexual relationsh…
But he is my husband! How can that be rape?’
In Lesotho, where there are very high HIV infection rates among teenagers and young adults, most of whom are girls and women, it is surprising to find that women teachers are unwilling to talk about rape within the context of sexual relationships and its links to HIV infections. This briefing seeks to explain the reluctance of Basotho women to talk about experiences of date and marital rape by examining the power dynamics within sexual relationsh…
Exploring sexual customs
Issues of sexuality remain taboo in many African communities, with girlhood sexuality being a highly policed domain. This creates a lot of challenges for girls as they negotiate the spaces between being a girl-child and a sexual being. This paper explores the gendered politics of elongating the inner labia among Basotho girls and the socially constructed notions of proper girlhood. I draw from a study which explored the memories of adolescent sex…
Growing Up a Girl in a Developing Country
Girls' reproductive health matters are an important factor in their equal participation in educational settings. However, many girls worldwide still face challenges to participating fully in education because of the lack of supportive structures for their health needs. This paper uses autoethnographic writing to highlight some of the challenges that girls meet in school because of menstruation. It also discusses how a teacher's lived experiences …
Sexuality education in rural Lesotho schools
The aim of this paper is to present and discuss some of the obstacles to effective sexuality education in rural Lesotho schools and offer some suggestions that could facilitate positive change in the current status of sexuality education. The call for education as a ‘vaccine’ against new HIV infections places teachers at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic, and thus it is imperative to understand how they experience teaching about sex…
Female sexual pleasure and autonomy
Female sexuality is a highly policed domain within many societies with women and girls being violated daily in relation to performing their gendered and sexual identities. This article explores the politics of inner labia elongation, and the socially constructed notions of genital beauty through the lens of gendered violence. It highlights the silences around sexual pleasure and desire for Basotho women through discussing the importance of labial…
Letters to those who Dare Feel
Using reflective letter-writing as a method of generating data, a group of four researchers embarked on a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry into the emotional dimensions of researching social aspects of HIV & AIDS. In this article, we use the medium of a narrative dialogue to represent and re-examine our reflective letter-writing method. The dialogue draws attention to key features of reflective letter-writing as a collaborative autoethnogra…
More than a decade of addressing HIV and Aids in education in South Africa
Understanding gender, sexuality and HIV risk in HEIs
Thirty years into the HIV&AIDS pandemic, the world is still striving to reduce new HIV infections and halve AIDS related deaths by 2015. However, sub-Saharan Africa still faces the burden of HIV infections as governments and private institutions try out different prevention strategies (UNAIDS 2011). Several scholars have argued that multiple concurrent sexual partnerships (MCSP) pose the greatest risk for new HIV infections. Furthermore, research…
Using participatory and visual arts-based methodologies to promote sustainable teaching and learning ecologies
The National Framework for Quality Education in Rural Areas (DoE, 2006) draws attention to education in rural ecologies and scrutinises the role of HEIs in developing teachers who understand the diverse contexts and who are able to facilitate quality teaching and learning in such contexts. Drawing from the project 'New teachers for new times: Visual methodologies for social change in rural education in the age of AIDS', this article explores how …
Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers teaching sexuality education in the HIV and Aids education curriculum
In spite of the importance of sexuality education and HIV and AIDS education in preventing HIV infections, Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers are not engaging optimally with the current Guidance and Counseling, HIV and AIDS & Life Skills education curriculum, and hence, they are not serving the needs of the learners in the context of the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The aim of the study, therefore, was to explore how Guidance …
Using tableaus to explore teachers’ perceptions of how unequal power relations contribute to the spread of HIV and Aids
The article explores pre-and in-service teachers' perceptions of how unequal power relations contribute towards the spread of HIV and AIDS. The sample, consisting of 19 teachers; 6 pre-service teachers from a Higher Education Institution and 13 in-service teachers from a rural primary school shared their views, through the use of tableaus, on how power relations between males and females contributed towards HIV and AIDS.The findings, emerging fro…
Using Collages to Change School Governing Body Perceptions of Male Foundation Phase Teachers
The paper explores how collages can be used to change school governing body (SGB) members' perceptions of male teachers in the foundation phase (FP) in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, South Africa. The involvement of men in FP teaching forms part of initiatives to diversify and do away with the underrepresentation of men in the early years of learning. SGBs play an integral role in the recruitment and retaining of teachers in schools, but not much …
Exploring understandings of sexual consent amongst Life Orientation student-teachers through intergroup dialogue
In this article, the author reports on how intergroup dialogue was used amongst Life Orientation (LO) student-teachers to deconstruct the heteropatriarchal notions of sexual consent, in the context of gender-based violence (GBV). Three sessions of intergroup dialogue were arranged between third-year student-teachers and female survivors of GBV from a local Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) in exploring the perceptions of sexual consent, to deepen the…
Women educators’ narratives on intimate partner violence
The study sought to answer: How can participatory and visual methodology enable women teachers to lead change against intimate partner violence (IPV) at a state university in Zimbabwe? The study was qualitative and informed by the critical paradigm and employed visual participatory research methodology. Six women educators from a state university were selected by means of snowballing. The methods of data generation that were employed were drawing…
Teaching for Comfort or Diversity in Comprehensive Sexuality Education Classrooms? Third-Year Student Teachers' Perspectives
Discussion of sexual rights in the context of disability is an often neglected and underdeveloped terrain within the human rights discourse, worldwide. More so, it becomes taboo to discuss the sexual health and reproductive rights of adolescents living with disabilities. This group of adolescents are often constructed as being sexually innocent, asexual, or lacking sexual agency thus denying their sexual autonomy. In other contexts, adolescents l…
Rethinking Constructions of Difference
Discrimination according to gender has been in practice in communities globally since time immemorial. This discrimination has infiltrated all spheres of life including the naming, shaming, blaming, and persecution of deviant people as witches. The phenomenon of witchcraft has historically been negatively skewed towards women, with women's gender and sexual diversity being used against them in accusations of witchcraft. In some modern-day African…
Using Drama Pedagogy to Enhance Understanding of HIV Transmission, Infection, and Prevention Among Third-Year Student Teachers
Thirty-eight years into the HIV and AIDS pandemic, the world is still striving to reduce global HIV infections towards zero new infections and AIDS-related deaths by 2030. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to carry the burden of global HIV infections as governmental and nongovernmental agencies try out different prevention strategies (UNAIDS, 2024b). Several scholars have argued that comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is the best preventive strat…
Understanding the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse in selected special schools, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Although sexual violence against children is a global problem, it is more pervasive in some regions than others. South Africa is one such context where there is a close connection between the social environment and child sexual abuse (CSA). Despite the government’s efforts mandating the reporting of CSA, its prevalence remains high and has become a significant health and societal issue. In this article, I explore how school management teams (SMT)…
Sociology (16 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Pedagogy (10 obras) · Human sexuality (8 obras) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (7 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Social science (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras)