Health Education: Volume 117 Issue 5

Critical perspectives on health and wellbeing education in schools

Deana Leahy, Venka Simovska

Promoting social and emotional well-being in schools

Margaret M. Barry, Aleisha Mary Clarke, Katherine Dowling

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical perspective on the international evidence on promoting young people’s social and emotional well-being in schools. The challenges…

Towards dynamic and interdisciplinary frameworks for school-based mental health promotion

Catriona O’Toole

The purpose of this paper is to scrutinise two ostensibly disparate approaches to school-based mental health promotion and offer a conceptual foundation for considering possible…

Democratic school health education in a post-communist country

Zuzana Boberova, Leena Paakkari, Ivan Ropovik, Jozef Liba

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the findings of an intervention program built on the concept of children’s health literacy, particularly on its citizenship component. This…

LGBTQ youth activism and school: challenging sexuality and gender norms

Hayley McGlashan, Katie Fitzpatrick

Previous research examining the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) youth in schools suggests that schools are not inclusive places for non-heterosexual…

Children as change agents for family health

Lisette Burrows

The purpose of this paper is to explore ways in which children and young people are being positioned as change agents for families through school health promotion initiatives in…

Working against “pedagogic work”: Challenges to engaging pre-service teachers in critical health education

Jennifer Fane, Samantha Schulz

Equipping pre-service teachers with the skills and knowledge needed to teach health in socially critical ways requires pre-service teachers to examine and critique individualistic…