Understanding school improvement and school effectiveness from a health promoting school perspective

• Autores: Andy Anderson
• Localización: REICE: Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación, ISSN-e 1696-4713, Vol. 3, Nº. 1, 2005 (Ejemplar dedicado a: XVIII International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI 2005)), págs. 282-296
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this paper, I make the case that health has a great deal to offer the education sector as a means not only to better health and better learning, but to better schools and better teaching. Understanding school improvement from a health promotion perspective, I argue, affords educators a unique and powerful opportunity to:

    - reflect on the value added when academic study is enriched through the study of health issues linked to student engagement in community life and acts of care, - consider how health can prompt the adoption of more sophisticated methods of instruction associated with the development of intellectual character and responsible citizenry.