Oh for those halcyon days!

Lewis, Derek

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“…The Health for Life 1 and 2 and European Network of Health Promoting Schools needs to continue if more teachers are going to receive training as health education specialists [17]. It is therefore even more important that in-service training is offered to those teaching health education and that this should specifically include skills in working with young men.…”

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Health education needs of young men

1996

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Unlike girls, boys are not encouraged to share their intimate problems. Furthermore, boys think they will be laughed at if they show weakness in front of their friends. A recent local study among secondary schoolchildren in West Sussex [1] found that boys are more likely than girls not to share problems with anyone. When asked specifically about health problems, 13 per cent of 14-year-old males would not share these with anyone, compared with 7.1 per cent of girls in the same age group.Work with young people encouraged the authors to look more closely at the health education needs of young men. Health education is part of the National Curriculum[2] for both sexes, but, because it is often designed and delivered by women, it may not take account of those issues that young men deem to be important.Much work carried out with young women has helped them to develop their assertiveness skills. This increase in confidence among young women, together with the increased representation in the media of young men as "sex objects", with the expectation that they look good and perform well in bed, is thought to have contributed to an increasing incidence of impotence now being described in men in their 20s [3]. Lee[4] states that: "… libraries contain an array of books on young women's health, rights, body images, and on issues like self assertion. They do not seem to have similar material for young men". Changing rolesWe can speculate that feminism has helped girls to develop more positive images of womanhood, but that boys may have outdated images of maleness to which to aspire: tough, without emotion, brave and aggressive. These images contrast with the modern concept of the "new man" who shares in both the physical and the emotional care of his family. Men no longer need to be able to defend their possessions and family from marauding tribes, but boys are offered little guidance as to how to cope with their new role. Unemployment and an increasing number of working wives are further confusing male roles, because the category of "breadwinner" is now also removed from the list [5].Do young men, and those working with them, perceive this changing role? Can they accurately identify the health education needs 13

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Health education needs of young men

1996

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“…Schools have responded over the years to different degrees and in different ways to provide health education as part of the curriculum for some or all of their pupils at different times. A recent article by Derek Lewis, OBE, a former HMI, provides a useful review of health education in schools during the past 50 years and sets out what has been achieved in that time [3].…”

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The Future of Health Education

Emmett¹

1994

Health Education

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Considers the future of health education in relation to schools; explores the continuing need for health education of young people and hence the priorities for schools; and addresses the current dilemmas, uncertainties and opportunities that affect the provision of health education in schools. Relates principally to health education in schools in England. Reviews the impact of recent Education Acts on the provision of health education in schools and examines how the new system of inspection of schools could and should work in relation to health education. Summarizes the early work on the health‐promoting schools project.

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“…Several review articles in the past few years have explored in some detail the current restraints on delivering coherent health education programmes in schools. Pertinent examples are Emmett's assessment of the future of health education [1] and the extensive review of the development of health education over 50 years [2]. Yet these reviews failed to debate the radical reforms in initial teacher education which are currently being implemented, and the potentially negative impact of these reforms on the future provision of school-based health education.…”

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Future prospects for health education in initial teacher education

Scriven

1995

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Assesses the influence of the recent Government reforms in initial teacher education on the health education training of new recruits into the profession. Describes findings from the last major research study into health education in initial teacher training and appraises the new criteria for teacher education courses. Concludes that health education in teacher training is likely to become increasingly marginalized. Highlights contradictions in Government policy and urges professionals to attempt to influence the ways in which higher education institutions interpret the criteria on which courses will be developed and judged.

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Oh for those halcyon days!

Abstract: "If one wishes to assess progress or the lack of it in a particular age it is necessary to take into account the whole climate of ideas prevailing at the time, and not merely some part of it " (Chpt on historical develop ment of health education, 1968)'

Cited by 11 publications

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Health education needs of young men

Health education needs of young men

The Future of Health Education

Future prospects for health education in initial teacher education

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