Objectives and competences
The objectives of this course are:
• to enable the students for understanding of health complexity and its determinants as the basic human rights and quality of life factor,
• to enable the students for education and counselling in health promotion,
• to enable the students’ perceptions for detecting development and health needs of children and youths in school setting through lifespan,
• to enable the students to transfer theoretical knowledge to a concrete example of promoting/ changing health related behaviour by an individual pupil or group/ class,
• to enable the students for autonomous individual and team planning, implementing, and evaluating school-based health promotion programs, focusing on exposed areas of protecting health and health-related behaviours of children and youth,
• to enable the students for critical evaluating effects and ethical aspects of health education in school,
• to enable the students for cooperating in an interdisciplinary team of planning, implementing, and evaluating school-based health promotion intervention,
• to motivate the students for caring for their own health and permanently improving their lifestyle.
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Defining physical and mental health: changing attitude to health through time (biomedical model, psychosocial model).
• Fundamental political documents of health promotion: The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, The Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World; World Health Organization, National Institute of Public Health.
• Child development and health.
• Health determinants, and risks factors: biological and genetical factors, social-economical factors, lifestyle, physical environment, cultural and social environment, social support networks, health care.
• The foundations of health promotion and health education in primary and secondary school: relationship between education for health and health promotion (purpose, objectives, areas of activities).
• Models for changing health related behaviours by children and youth: cognitive, emotional, and moto component; internal and external control of behavioural change.
• Planning health education in classroom: health needs analysis, planning of education, intervention implementation, effects evaluation.
• Healthy school environment, specific themes of health education for children and youth in primary and/or secondary school: hygiene and care for cleanliness, healthy nutrition, physical activity, body posture, stress management, mental health, healthy sleep habits, sexual behavioural, abuse of alcohol, smoking and drugs, dental health, cancer prevention, managing behaviour problems and peer bulling, working habits, traffic safety, manging emergency situations and crisis.
• Project Healthy School, The Slovenian Network of Health Promoting Schools, The European Network of Health Promoting Schools, Wisely to the Party, I'm still driving – but I'm not walking, Slovenian Breakfast, Mental Health Promotion, and others healthy lifestyle promotion programs for children and youth in Slovenia.
• Ethical aspects of health promotion interventions for children in youth.
• Planning and developing a health promotion intervention for primary/ secondary school in the case of regular physical activity – designing a study plan, and didactical materials for pupils: learning objectives, duration, providers, target groups, theoretical and practical contents.
Learning and teaching methods
• project learning
• higher education lecture
• discussion methods
• work in pairs and smaller groups
• role playing
• flipped learning
• didactical use of informational and communication technology.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Based on completion of this course, the student will be able:
• to understand the complexity of physical and mental health by children and youth,
• to understand relationships between health, human rights, and quality of life,
• to understand the role of school as a physical, social, and psychological environment for enabling, encouraging, and safeguarding the health of children and youth,
• to know the fundamental national and international legal documents and organizations defining health promotion, and to know principle projects and campaigns of health promotion in Slovenian schools,
• to understand the relationship between education for health, health education, and health promotion,
• to know the principle determinants of physical and mental health, and possible risks factors during school period,
• to understand internal and external motives for changing health-related behaviour,
• to know key priority areas of health education in primary and secondary school,
• to select suitable pedagogical approach to strengthen/ changing health-related behaviour of individual pupil or class based on knowledge of didactical models, and pedagogical-psychological aspects of healthy lifestyle,
• to know how to plan, implement and evaluate health promotion intervention at school and in a school class,
• to understand the meaning and impact of their own health and lifestyle for quality teaching in the field of enabling, encouraging, and safeguarding health of pupils.
Readings
• Metcalfe, O., Weare, K., Wijnsma, P., Williams, T., Williams M., & Young, I. (2010). Promocija zdravja mladih v Evropi: Zdravstvena vzgoja v šolah: [Priročnik za učitelje in vse, ki delajo z mladimi]. Ljubljana: Svetovna zdravstvena organizacija & Inštitut za varovanje zdravja RS.
• Page, R. M., & Page, T. S. (2015). Promoting Health and Emotional Well-Being in Your Classroom [6th edition]. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• Telljohann, S., Symons, C., Pateman, B., & Seabert, D. (2019). Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications [9th edition]. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.
• Green, J., Woodall, J., Cross, R., & Tones, K., (2019). Health Promotion: Planning and Strategies [4th edition]. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd.
• Zurc, J. (2008). Biti najboljši: pomen gibalne aktivnosti za otrokov razvoj in šolsko uspešnost. Radovljica: Didakta.
• Izbrani članki domačih in tujih znanstvenih revij ter zborniki prispevkov iz konferenc na področju vzgoje in izobraževanje za zdravje otrok in mladostnikov; izbrane internetne strani organizacij s primeri promocije zdravja v šoli. /
Additional information on implementation and assessment • written project assignment 60 %
• oral examination 40 %
