Schools for Health and Sustainability

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

4. Examining Implementation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231

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   2. Implementation Strategies to Promote and Sustain Health and Learning in School

      • Oddrun Samdal, Louise Rowling

      Pages 233-252

   3. Healthy Principals – Healthy Schools? A Neglected Perspective to School Health Promotion

      • Kevin Dadaczynski, Peter Paulus

      Pages 253-273

   4. Three Approaches to School Health Education as a Means to Higher Levels of Health Literacy

      • Leena Paakkari

      Pages 275-289

   5. Promoting Health Education in a Context of Strong Social and Cultural Heterogeneity: The Case of Reunion Island

      • Maryvette Balcou-Debussche, Crane Rogers

      Pages 291-312

   6. Implementing Mental Health Promoting Schools

      • Aleisha M. Clarke, Margaret M. Barry

      Pages 313-338

5. The Challenges of Evaluation and Evidence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 339-339

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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.

• Education for sustainable development
• Health education
• Health promotion
• School environment
• Sustainability
• childhood studies

• Department of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark

  Venka Simovska

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

  Patricia Mannix McNamara

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.

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