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Dugan, Jennifer J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
Collaboration between colleges of liberal arts and sciences and health professional schools provide fertile ground for undergraduate programs focused on health education, advocacy, and research. Complex collaboration can sometimes challenge disciplinary boundaries and traditional processes, which may need to be updated to maximize student…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Health Programs, Health Promotion, COVID-19
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Kristen M. Ford; Julie M. Knutson – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2025
As part of THE FUSED Health Education Series, this article takes a deep dive into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) 15 Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curriculum. The Characteristics emerged after a review of professional literature on effective health education programs and curricula and determined that these…
Descriptors: Health Education, Curriculum Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Skill Development
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Cindy Hu – Childhood Education, 2024
Farm to school education connects learning to the real world by helping students foster a deeper appreciation for local agriculture and healthy eating habits. Students experience and understand how nature supports life and the food they eat. Farm to school can take many forms, from classroom lessons to field trips in the school garden. Many…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Farm Management, Food, Eating Habits
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Ward, Allison – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply impacted the field of education, highlighting many problems to be considered by educational leaders as schools emerge from the pandemic. In planning to address challenges and consider innovation, school leaders are encouraged to implement changes in curriculum and assessment to meet the needs of contemporary…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Administration, Administrators
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Barcelona, Jeanne M.; Goetten, Julia – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2018
One strategy for creating a healthy school culture is to integrate health concepts into core subject areas. In this article, a health and wellness coordinator and a curriculum specialist explain the meticulous process and discoveries that led to the development of a district-specific health curriculum.
Descriptors: School Culture, Health Promotion, Interdisciplinary Approach, Wellness
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Velardo, Stefania – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2018
The concept of the Citizen Scholar highlights the potential for universities to act as vehicles for social change by supporting the development of active, engaged graduates who are geared to respond to current and future global challenges. This demands a radical shift in teaching towards more interactive pedagogies, which may prove difficult for…
Descriptors: Social Change, College Role, Citizenship Education, Social Responsibility
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Gordon, Stephen P. – Journal of Educational Supervision, 2018
In this article I propose that curriculum and instruction are inextricably intertwined, curriculum development should be an important function of educational supervision, and supervision should foster a multidimensional curriculum developed by teachers. The proposed curriculum framework includes cognitive, social-emotional, moral, cultural,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Holistic Approach, Faculty Development, Teacher Supervision
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Bothell, Joan; Gaudio, Mary-Margaret; Gray, Sharon – Journal of Extension, 2017
The concept of a "healthful home" offers the basis for a comprehensive approach to addressing the well-established relationship between health and housing. Many environmental health hazards found in homes--such as lead, mold, environmental tobacco smoke, and pesticides--can be reduced or eliminated through the use of scientifically…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Family Environment, Hazardous Materials, Intervention
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Miyamoto, Robin E. S.; Burke, Katherine; Fox, Kealoha – Educational Perspectives, 2019
Over the past forty years, considerable attention and funding has been spent to improve the health status of Kanaka ?Oiwi. While gains have been made, Kanaka 'Oiwi continue to experience an average life span ten years shorter than that of the general population (Wu et al. 2017). This is caused in part by non-communicable diseases such as diabetes,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Labor Force Development, Indigenous Populations, Hawaiians
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Stewart, Victoria; Campbell, Matthew; Wheeler, Amanda J. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2016
Advanced practitioner skill development has become an important focus in health service delivery as increasingly complex consumer needs, practice environments and national professional registration requirements impact on professional work practices. Increasingly, work-based or workplace learning experiences are being seen as an effective means for…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Decision Making, Course Descriptions, Mental Health Programs
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Chodzko-Zajko, Wojtek – Quest, 2014
This article describes the elements of the undergraduate core in kinesiology that have been established by the American Kinesiology Association. The American Kinesiology Association also describes a set of ten student-learning outcomes that emanate from the four core content elements. This information has been developed by the American Kinesiology…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Core Curriculum, Exercise Physiology, Guidance
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Barnes, Michael D.; Wykoff, Randy; King, Laura Rasar; Petersen, Donna J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
The article provides an overview of efforts to improve public health and health education training and on the potential use of Critical Component Elements (CCEs) for undergraduate health education programs toward more consistent quality assurance across programs. Considered in the context of the Galway Consensus Conference, the authors discuss the…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Quality Control, Health Education, Public Health
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Charles, John M.; Charles, P. Kelly – Quest, 2016
In the wake of multiple activity program eliminations and frequent downgrading of activity programs nationwide, the question to be addressed is how we can draw upon our interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and intercultural understandings of human movement to construct physical activity programs for the future that might withstand the test of…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Physical Activities, Physical Education
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Frank, Gail C.; Beaudoin, Jessica; Rascon, Mayra; Garcia-Vega, Melawhy; Rios-Ellis, Britt – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2013
The health of Hispanics is greatly influenced by level of education, socioeconomic status, and access to healthcare (United States Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS], 2011). To address this issue and to reduce health disparities among all ethnic groups, community based interventions with culturally appropriate and linguistically…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Nutrition Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education, Hispanic Americans
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LePrevost, Catherine E.; Storm, Julia F.; Asuaje, Cesar R.; Cope, W. Gregory – Journal of Extension, 2014
Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are typically Spanish-speaking, Latino immigrants with limited formal education and low literacy skills and, as such, are a vulnerable population. We describe the development of the "Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit", a pesticide safety and health curriculum designed to communicate to farmworkers…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Poisoning, Agricultural Laborers
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