Clair E. Turner: Pioneer in Health Education 1890-1974

Sorensen, Elaine Shaw

doi:10.1080/00970050.1987.10615995

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“…In Spain, these ideas were spread through the Spanish versions of the works of Clair E. Turner (Sorensen, 1987), one of the most important authors on health education in North America, following the publication of the first edition of his handbook (Turner, 1932). He supported all the European initiatives and was consultant for UNESCO and the WHO.…”

Section: Health Education In Schoolsmentioning

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Schools and health education in Spain during the dictatorship of General Franco (1939-1975)

Terrón

Comelles

Gil

2017

HER

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolution and characteristics of health education in schools in Spain during the dictatorship of General Franco (1939-1975). Design/methodology/approach The analysis of two kinds of sources has been performed. First, the reports from international organizations on health education in schools published in the 1950s and 1960s. Second, journals, books and official documents published by public health and education organizations in Franco’s Spain. Findings Health education in schools evolved in three stages under Franco’s dictatorship. In the first stage (1939-1953), Spanish schools maintained an outdated “school health” approach in the teaching programmes. In the second stage (1953-1965), the agreements with the USA in 1953 ended Spanish isolation, and the regime sought to follow the recommendations of international organizations. Efforts were made to “import” the WHO/UNESCO version of health education in schools but it failed to materialize. A programme that sought to enhance citizen participation and to acknowledge their idiosyncrasies was unlikely to prosper in a dictatorship. However, the less threatening food and nutrition education programme, encouraged by the FAO/UNICEF, did succeed. In the last stage (1965-1975), the Spanish education system entered a period of modernization in which the contents and methods of health education in schools were reformed in order to introduce the less conflictive aspects of the international recommendations. Originality/value The paper highlights the tensions between the aspirations to follow international programmes and the recommendations on health education in schools and the difficulties of implementing such schemes under a dictatorship.

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Section: Health Education In Schoolsmentioning

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Schools and health education in Spain during the dictatorship of General Franco (1939-1975)

Terrón

Comelles

Gil

2017

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“…Soon, perhaps in an effort to give some authenticity to their features, the Pathe film company hired two Native Americans, James Young Deer and Dark Cloud, to direct some films (Friar 1972:89-111,250). From very early on, however, film was also used as a form of salvage ethnography (Sorensen 1974).…”

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American Indians and the ethnocinematic complex: From native participation to production control

Prins¹

1989

Visual Sociology

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Health Education and Its (Social) Scientization in the 1950s and 1960s

Sammer

2019

N.T.M.

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Artikel/ArticlesGesundheitserziehung -die Ver(sozial)wissenschaftlichung der Gesundheitsaufklärung in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren Christian Sammer Health Education and Its (Social) Scientization in the 1950s and 1960sThe contemporary history of prevention is booming. By means of its preventative societal handling of health and illness, it illuminates exemplarily the transformation in concepts, institutions, and practice of the biopolitical governing of populations. In this regard health education is a decisive technology. However, up until now the history of health education, especially with regard to its methodological transformation during this period, as well as the relations between international developments and national adaption, has not been well studied. This gap will be filled to a certain extent by means of quantitative and qualitative analysis of three different anglophone journals. During the 1950s an international professional discourse was established, which constituted a scientific occupational area. This clearly required moving away from the traditional German model of a demonstrative mediation of medical knowledge, mainly through exhibitions, and to focus on the integration of knowledge and methodology from the social sciences. From the perspective of the Behavioural Sciences human action and the possibility of it being influenced were integrated within a network of mutual influencing factors: apparently only survey research on health attitudes and motivation as well as on its own efficacy could enable the health educators to successfully understand and change human behaviour-the prioritized purpose of health education. Through such a determination of purpose, means, and relevant knowledge, which was differently received and institutionalized in the FRG as well as in the GDR, the actors of the discourse assured themselves to be part of an international profession of health educators. However, more research and the implementation of their results did not fulfill their hopes of finding "recipes for steering human" behaviour.

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Clair E. Turner: Pioneer in Health Education 1890-1974

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Schools and health education in Spain during the dictatorship of General Franco (1939-1975)

Schools and health education in Spain during the dictatorship of General Franco (1939-1975)

American Indians and the ethnocinematic complex: From native participation to production control

Health Education and Its (Social) Scientization in the 1950s and 1960s

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