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Schools for Health and Sustainability

Theory, Research and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Venka Simovska

    1. Department of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  2. Patricia Mannix McNamara

    1. Faculty of Education and Health Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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  • Equips readers with an overview of the latest international research within the fields of health promoting schools
  • Provides strong rationale and clearly advocates for combining health promotion and education for sustainable development in schools
  • Focuses on similarities, differences and potential synergies between the concept of health promoting schools and the concept of education for sustainable development

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Health Promoting Schools and Education for Sustainable Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Schools for Health and Sustainability: Insights from the Past, Present and for the Future

      • Patricia Mannix-McNamara, Venka Simovska
      Pages 3-17

    3. Health Promotion and Sustainable Development in Schools: Historical Perspective

      • Ian Macrae Young
      Pages 19-40

    4. Key Competencies: Reconciling Means and Ends in Education for Sustainable Consumption

      • Daniel Fischer, Matthias Barth
      Pages 41-60

    5. Under One Umbrella: Professional Norms Promoting Education for Sustainable Development at the School Level

      • Ulf Leo, Per Wickenberg
      Pages 61-79

    6. Linking Health Education and Sustainability Education in Schools: Local Transformations of International Policy

      • Katrine Dahl Madsen, Lone Lindegaard Nordin, Venka Simovska
      Pages 81-109

  3. Partnerships, Standards and Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Health Promotion in Dutch Secondary Schools: Promising Collaboration Between School and Public Health Services?

      • Nicole M. W. M. Boot, Maria W. J. Jansen, Mariken T. W. Leurs, Nanne de Vries
      Pages 113-130

    3. Becoming a Health Promoting School: Using a ‘Change Agent’ to Influence School Structure, Ethos and Ensure Sustainability

      • Elizabeth Senior, Andrew Joyce, Dimitri Batras
      Pages 131-153

    4. Drama-Based Learning for Teachers’ Education in Health Promotion

      • Athina Karavoltsou
      Pages 155-189

    5. Professional Competencies Within School Health Promotion – Between Standards and Professional Judgment

      • Monica Carlsson
      Pages 191-209

    6. Health Education in the Context of Performance Driven Education: Challenges and Opportunities

      • Sharon Moynihan, Jennifer Hennessy, Patricia Mannix-McNamara
      Pages 211-230

  5. The Challenges of Evaluation and Evidence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 339-339
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Keywords

About this book

Schools are unique places. They pay a central role in the formation of young people. The importance of how young people are educated and how they are encouraged to live and learn cannot be underestimated. This book advocates for the fostering of agency not only amongst school personnel but also amongst younger generations for health and sustainability. It provides the reader with a new lens with which to discover health promoting schools and education for sustainable development. It invites the reader to look more deeply into both and to accompany the authors on a journey of discovery of the real potential for each to enhance the practice of schooling.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Venka Simovska

  • Faculty of Education and Health Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Patricia Mannix McNamara

About the editors

Venka Simovska, PhD, Professor and Director of the Research Programme on Learning for Care, Sustainability and Health at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. Professor Simovska also leads the newly established Research Centre on Schools for Health and Sustainability at the Department. She is chair of two international research networks: Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) Research Group and Health Education Research (network within the European Association of Educational research (EERA). Simovska has authored and co-authored a number of books, book chapters and Journal articles within the field. Most recently, she has guest edited two special issues of Health Education focusing on Processes and Outcomes of Health Promoting Schools.

Patricia Mannix McNamara, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Education in the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Education and Professional Practice (RCEPP). Patricia has expertise in both health and education and has authored and co-authored books, book chapters and journal papers spanning both fields. She has been a national evaluator for ENHPS since 1999 and is a core group member of the Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) Research Group.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Schools for Health and Sustainability

  • Book Subtitle: Theory, Research and Practice

  • Editors: Venka Simovska, Patricia Mannix McNamara

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9171-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9170-0Published: 14 October 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0355-8Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9171-7Published: 03 October 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 431

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Health, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sociology of Education

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