Health Promoting Schools

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Health Promoting Schools

• What you expect - is what you get?

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Pygmalion effect

• the difference between a lady and a flower girl
  is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I
  shall always be a flower girl to Professor
  Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower
  girl, and always will, but I know I can be a lady
  to you because you always treat me as a lady, and
  always will."

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• - Early, unplanned pregnancy
• - Sexual abuse
• - High risk of infectious disease
• - Failure to graduate
• - Sexual exploitation
• - Low paying jobs
• - Support males
• Care provider for parents/ siblings, and extended
  family members
• self-worth defined by what others want
• Is that all there is?

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What impression do you expect health and physical
education to make on childrens lives?
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• Follow guidance and advice of health community
  (medical, scholastic, pharmaceutical)
• Read health messages intelligently observed,
  anecdotal.
• Adopt health enhancing habits
• Help others enjoy a healthy life
• Work to develop surroundings that support and
  build health
• Become health literate read the world,
  participate in the knowledge economy (access,
  produce, share, interpret, sell knowledge)

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What role should the school play in this process?

• Are schools equipped to
• do the job?
• Are teachers interested?
• Are teachers prepared?
• Are parents interested?
• Are students interested?

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For a school to expect to produce certain
outcomes, what needs to be in place?
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Do you expect it to become embedded in the
culture of the school?
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That means, health (the principles and practices
that define leading-edge approaches to
school-based health promotion) must be an
integral part of - curriculum and instruction
- governance - life world of school - community
partnerships - planning - promoting -
buildingIn other words, organize, operate,
improve
with health in mind
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Do you expect HPE

• To be a course of study
• Or school philosophy
• Or a fundamental part of how a school/community
  system works?
• Walking school bus. Who would be at the table if
  it was designed systemically/comprehensively?

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Health defined as care for self, others
and the environment
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Leading edge instruction makes evident the
connection between learning and doing good
relating what we know to making things better for
self, others and the environment
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• There are 120 sheep and five dogs, how old is the
  shepherd?

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• Triangulate knowing, doing, valuing

Empathy
Literacy
Action competency
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Curriculum and instruction, through HPE should
prepare students to
see the possibilities for
improvement and
see the opportunities at
hand for them to
have a say,
take a stand, act.
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Asking provocative questions

• What if there was a pill
• what

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Examples of classroom challenges that make health
an integral part of academic learning

• The more television a child watches the more s/he
  tends to eat (junk food).
• One consequence of childrens television watching
  is increased caloric intake. American researchers
  have found that for every hour of TV that
  children watched, they ate the equivalent of a
  bag of chips. A 20-month study of 548 children
  with a mean age of 11.7 found they hovered 167
  more calories of food for every hour of TV they
  watched each day. (Macleans Magazine, Volume 119
  No. 19, 2006, p. 11 High Fat TV.)
• What are the messages that can be read from
  this research finding?
• Between ages 11- 65 the average American watches
  7 years of television.
• How long does it take to complete a degree in
  medicine? Certification in Auto mechanics?
  Licensure for Commercial Photography?

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Example 2

• 98 of violent crimes are committed by men. Why
  are men so violent?
• What does it mean to be masculine?
• Who said?
• Whether you are a man or not depends on your
  heart not how much hair you have on your head?
• a) Bruce Willis
• b) Damon Wayans
• List ways boys can support (look out) for each
  other.

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Example 3

• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a
  single moment before starting to improve the
  world Anne Frank
• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
  its going to be a butterfly Buckminster Fuller

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A theory of learning

• There is a distinction between knowledge as
  acquired for a test and knowing as
  participation in rich contexts where one gains an
  appreciation for both the content and the
  situations in which it has value. Central to this
  perspective is the belief that concepts, skills
  etc. are tools tools that can only be fully
  understood in use. The primary tenets f this
  perspective with respect to knowing are that (a)
  knowing is an activity not a thing (b) knowing
  is always contextualized not abstract (c)
  knowing is reciprocally constructed in the
  individual - environment interaction not
  objectively defined or subjectively created
  and (d) knowing is a functional stance on the
  interaction not a truth
  (Educational Researcher
  - Roth and Barab, 2006, p. 3)
• Education generates more than good test scores,
  job prospects
• It is at the moment of doubt that real thinking
  begins - Andy

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• Canadians are on the move B.C. is
  home to nearly 1 million Canadians born
  elsewhere. 253 000 B.C. born Canadians live in
  the rest of Canada.
  Alberta has 802 000 persons born in other parts
  of the country? A total of 402 000 born in that
  province lived elsewhere.
  Saskatchewan 535 000 reside elsewhere while 124
  000 arrived as newcomers.
• 75 of the residences in B.C., born elsewhere,
  were likely to feel at home.
• What makes a place a good place to live?
• What makes YOUR community a good place to live?
• What could we do to make our place a better place
  to live?
• What can we do at our school to welcome newcomers
  and those who move to new places?

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• A well struck golf ball travels 200 kilometers an
  hour, at that rate how long would it take to pass
  the length of your playing field?
• Calculate the savings you get when you buy a car
  in the U.S. versus Canada?
• Prepare a survey to determine which school in the
  district is the most courteous.

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Health as cultural studies

• A kiss is just a kiss or is it?
• Childrens games - Bruegel
• Design an e-kitchen, an eco-kitchen

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Health and happiness

• ½ of happiness is provided at birth, but what
  about the other half and how do you manage to
  live in the top half?
• Can laughter be the best medicine?
• Laughter is a way to massage your internal organs
• Create a plan of happiness for everyday

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Health and citizenry

• Angel hair
• Pugdog