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Health Promotion International, Vol 13, 223-236, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press
L St Leger
The health promoting school has emerged as a comprehensive framework to
enhance the health status and health potential of school students. It
requires teachers to be proactive in a number of areas beyond the formal
curriculum. The success of health promoting schools will depend largely on
what teachers know about its building blocks and the likelihood that they
will be adopted. A number of teachers were interviewed and surveyed in a
sequential study to ascertain their understanding of what constitutes a
health promoting school. The findings indicate that teachers think mainly
about school health in terms of the curriculum; have little understanding
of how community partnerships might work; are very supportive of the
concept; and have limited preservice and inservice training in health
issues. It is argued that the growth of health promoting schools will be
dependent on comprehensive professional development programmes; the
production of resources which link teachers' perceived core business -
teaching the mandated curriculum - to the building blocks of the health
promoting school; closer collaboration between the health and education
sectors; and a recognition by the community that schools cannot easily
address (and solve) society's health concerns.Keywords:
health promoting school; school health; teachers understandings
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Australian teachers' understandings of the health promoting school concept and the implications for the development of school health
Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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