Beschreibung:
Deana Leahy is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. She has researched and taught in the field of Health Education for over 20 years.
This book explores the health-education interface and the complex nexus of discourses, principles and practices within which educators mobilize school based health education. The book provides an explicit interrogation of the ideas informing particular models and approaches to health education and provides insight into the principles and practices underpinning approaches to policy, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.
1. Introduction 2. Schooling Health: Governmentality and Health Education 3. Whose Bodies and Whose Health? 4. Contemporary Curriculum Making and Health Education 5. Pedagogies of Health Education 6. Assessing Health Education 7. Porous Classrooms: Negotiating School and Community Partnerships 8. A Whole School Approach to Health Education 9. Conclusion