A survey regarding health education in Staffordshire schools

Head, Michael

doi:10.1177/001789697303200407

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“…The survey differs from earlier ones (e.g. Myatt, 1972;Head, 1973) in at least two ways. First it identified the range of health education actually carried out in one academic year as reported by the teachers concerned.…”

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“…These included personal hygiene, personal relationships, road safety, dental health and water safety. These topics were also found to be amongst the ones most frequently taught by schools in the Myatt (1972) and Head (1973) surveys. The relatively low priority accorded to alcohol, smoking and sexual development may be a matter for concern.…”

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“…Surveys of health education practice in primary schools have been been few in number. Two such surveys were conducted in Buckinghamshire (Myatt, 1972) and Staffordshire (Head, 1973) in the early 70s. Both surveys found that a substantial amount of health education took place incidentally, i.e.…”

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The Curricular Anatomy of Primary School Health Education

Wilcox

Gillies

1981

British Educational Res J

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The paper describes a survey of the health education which was taught in 193 Sheffield primary schools during the school year 1978/79 as reported by class teachers. Data were obtained from 728 teachers who between them were responsible for classes of pupils covering the age range from 5 to 12 years. The teaching of particular health topics, and the effective priority given to them by teachers, were found, in the main, to vary systematically with the age of the pupils. Most health education was found to be taught incidentally within other subjects or activities with only, on average, about 20% or so of the topics taught as discrete entities in their own right. The survey results are discussed in the light of present practice in health education and, more generally, in the context of current concerns with describing economically the reality of the curriculum in action.

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The Curricular Anatomy of Primary School Health Education

Wilcox

Gillies

1981

British Educational Res J

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“…A survey of current practice in post-primary schools S. J. McGuffin, MA, MSc, DipEd, AIHE, FRIC Senior Lecturer, Stranmillis College, Belfast THOUGH SURVEYS OF HEALTH EDUCATION practice in English schools, for instance, in Buckinghamshire (Myatt, 1971) and Staffordshire (Head, 1973), have been carried out in recent years, the only investigation in Northern Ireland has been on sex education and its provision in secondary and grammar schools (Taylor, 1967). Two published papers describe specific aspects of health education in the province-the introduction of health education in the government training centres for apprentices in County Antrim (McNarry, 1972) and details of the health studies included in the training of graduate teachers at Queen's University, Belfast (Tracey, 1969).…”

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