Health Promotion at School
Abstract
For decades the health of children and adolescents has been a topic of interest in all parts of Europe. And there is quite a consensus that schools are the most appropriate setting to promote health. Childhood and adolescence constitute key stages for learning and adopting a health-related and active lifestyle which includes physical activity and sports. The book describes a new approach to enhance students` health awareness through experimental learning settings in P.E. class, cross-subject teaching, and project work.Teaching health topics requires a pedagogical and didactical framework based on the concept of health literacy and interdisciplinary research discussed by the authors. Teaching examples to improve students` health knowledge, health competencies and skills as well as health behaviour and habits at school implicates a new teaching structure presented in the book.
Keywords
Health promotion; health awareness; health didactics; Physical Education; teacher educationDOI
10.1515/9783110539592ISBN
9783110539646;9783110539578Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2019Classification
Health and safety in the workplace
Public health and preventive medicine
Personal and public health / health education
Sport science, physical education
Educational: Personal and health education
Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Body and health