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Learning for Our Common Health: How and Academic Focus on HIV/AIDS Will Improve Education and Health

Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1818 R St. NW, Washington, DC 20009. 151p., bibliog. ISBN 0-011696-76-8. Write for price.
edited by David Burns. 1999.

The Association of American Colleges and Universities' Program for Health and Higher Education (PHHE) "launched a bold model to help leaders improve undergraduate learning by engaging higher education in the solution to one of the world's most pressing problems: preventing HIV disease and reducing the threat it poses to youth." This initiative has introduced participants to new learning strategies, interactive technology, curricular innovations, and service learning models about HIV/AIDS and health. This book provides an insight into how this initiative has succeeded. "The authors explore the case for this new scholarship; for re-thinking how we conceptualize health, and for using common health to improve the capacity of our students to be active participants in our democratic society."

The seven chapters cover: "Learning for Our Common Health," "If We Fail to Lead," "HIV, Health, and Liberal Education," "HIV/AIDS in the Academy: Engagement and Learning in a Context of Change," "Service Learning and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Prospects for an Integrated Strategy," "Learning About HIV/AIDS and Ethics in a Liberal Democracy," "Placing HIV/AIDS in Perspective: A Question of History," and "HIV/AIDS and Institutional Transformation: The Experience of San Francisco State University."

This is a well organized book that contains a wealth of information pertaining to AIDS/HIV education. It could be a key book, useful in leadership retreats, undergraduate classes, HIV/AIDS task forces, curriculum planning, anti-bigotry initiatives, and other educational arms of institutions. Highly recommended for all academic libraries.

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