Accomplishing health education reform

ISBN-13: 9783639156331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 64 str.

Leena Paakkari

Opis

This book is about the health education curriculumreform from the Finnish secondary school teachersperspective. The book describes a research, the goalof which was to obtain information in order toprepare recommendations to increase the capacity ofthe teachers for two purposes; firstly, to managewith the changes and, secondly, to teach healtheducation as their new teaching subject. It focuseson the reform-induced changes in teachers work andon the enabling and the hindering factors ofaccomplishing the new task of teaching healtheducation. It argues that there are four key factorsof a successful adaptation of an educational change:vision, control, outer-resources and collegiality.Based on this, the recommendation is made that inorder to increase teachers capacity to adapt to thecurriculum reform, the administration and schoollevel should focus on these factors. This book is forteachers who are to teach health issues in schools,for principals whose role is to empower teachers toteach health issues, and for administration whoserole is to prepare schools for educational reforms,and all the people interested in curriculum change inschools.

O autorze

Leena Paakkari, MHSc, M. Phil: Studied Health Education
(University of Jyväskylä), and Health Promotion (University
of Bergen). Researcher in the Research Center for Health
Promotion, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Research interest:
health education student teachers'' and teachers'' conceptions
about subject matter, its teaching and learning.