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Direct linkRenwick, Kerry – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
This paper will consider ways in which students are constructed as aliens in health classrooms. Creating the classroom as a setting for health promotion requires closer attention to those who make use of such space. If classrooms are places where diversity exists and is recognised, then health educators are challenged to consider how students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Materials, Information Literacy, Praxis
Alfrey, Laura; Brown, Trent D. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2013
The concept of "health literacy" is becoming increasingly prominent internationally, and it has been identified as one of the five key propositions that underpin the forthcoming Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (ACHPE). The ACHPE is one of few national curricula to explicitly refer to health literacy, identifying it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Health Materials, Curriculum Design
Begoray, Deborah L.; Banister, Elizabeth M.; Wharf Higgins, Joan; Wilmot, Robin – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
The commercial media is an influential sociocultural force and transmitter of health information especially for adolescents. Instruction in critical media health literacy, a combination of concepts from critical health literacy and critical media literacy, is a potentially effective means of raising adolescents' awareness about commercial media…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Health Materials, Adolescents
Rodriguez, Lena; McDonald, Brent – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2013
In Australia and New Zealand recognition of Polynesians is almost exclusively defined by their physicality. Sought after for size and strength on the sporting field, excellence in sport is arguably regarded as a life goal in itself. This paper will examine how this situation arose and the implications for Polynesians living in Australia. For a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders, Athletics
McCuaig, Louise; Carroll, Kristie; Macdonald, Doune – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
The teaching of health literacy in school-based health education (SBHE) is of international interest, yet there is less ready access to how conceptions of health literacy can be operationalised in school programmes. More specifically, while articulated in curriculum documents such as the incoming Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Health Materials, Secondary School Curriculum
Wrench, Alison; Garrett, Robyne – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
The development of health literacies, in relation to health, well-being, safety and physical activity, is a key pillar of the "Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education". Implications, therefore, arise for teachers of health and physical education (HPE) and their pedagogical practices. These practices of HPE inform ways of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Materials, Information Literacy, Teaching Methods
McCuaig, Louise; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Macdonald, Doune – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2013
The draft Australian Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2012c) takes a strengths-based approach that emphasizes questions such as "What keeps me healthy and active?" rather than "What risks, diseases and behaviours should I learn to avoid?". This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Information Literacy, Health Materials
