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Fergusson, Lee; Cabrejos, Javier Ortiz; Bonshek, Anna – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
Practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique in schools and universities throughout the world has been well researched over a 50-year period suggesting it is a useful tool for student development and learning. However, introduction of the practice into school systems throughout Latin America is a relatively recent phenomenon and no research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Metacognition, Well Being
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Deborah Holt; Shirley Gray; Donna Dey; Louise Campbell – Pastoral Care in Education, 2025
In Scotland, as with many other countries, the requirement to promote pupil health and wellbeing is the responsibility of all, yet little is known about how early career teachers learn to meet this responsibility. This two-year study followed five secondary school teachers from their Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) year to the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Health Promotion, Well Being, Teacher Responsibility
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Warburton, Victoria E.; Beaumont, Lee C.; Bishop, Krystal C. M. – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: The authors applied a multidimensional conceptual lens that incorporated physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual health dimensions to explore pre-adolescent children's understanding of health and what it means to be healthy. Design/methodology/approach: Forty-six children aged 9-11 years old completed a short questionnaire…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Knowledge Level, Health Education, Foreign Countries
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Yidan Zhu; Weiguo Zhang – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2025
This study aimed to understand the relationship between intergenerational learning (as a type of active learning) and active aging in an online intergenerational learning program as an effective way to foster online intergenerational learning for senior immigrants. It examined how senior Chinese immigrants learned intergenerationally in a project…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Immigrants, Older Adults
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Dixon, Rachael; Abel, Gillian; Burrows, Lisette – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2023
Critical health literacy (CHL) and more specifically the development of young people's CHL in school-based health education is an under-explored area in research. This is despite health literacy being viewed as a critical determinant of health in contemporary times (World Health Organization. (2016a). The mandate for health literacy.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Knowledge Level, Social Justice
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Osasona Foluso Adedoyin – Online Submission, 2023
This study investigated adolescent students' nutritional knowledge in boarding schools and potential strategies for improving their nutritional status in the Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The researcher used purposive sampling to select three government colleges and private college boarding schools in the Ido-Osi Local…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Nutrition Instruction, Boarding Schools, Student Attitudes
Jason T. Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study explored the topic of college student well-being and campus-wide initiatives aimed at facilitating positive health and lifestyle behaviors through educational efforts. A university-branded website was created with an aim of increasing students' understanding of well-being. Student perceptions of the website's impact on their knowledge,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Web Sites, Universities, Student Attitudes
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Pedro José Carrillo López – Physical Educator, 2023
This manuscript describes a pedagogical proposal for the adherence to healthy eating in sixth-grade schoolchildren. The reason for the design lies in the high prevalence of overweight and obesity together with a growing current sedentary lifestyle, aspects that constitute a serious public health problem worldwide with an upward trend and pandemic…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Grade 6, Child Health, Dietetics
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Velasco, Veronica; Coppola, Liliana; Veneruso, Mariacira – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objective: International agencies report the importance of health promotion in planning educational strategies and school management in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to identify the benefits of using a Health Promoting School (HPS) approach to guide educational and school policy during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy, the main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Promotion
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Edwards, Eleanor R.; Interthal, Heidrun; McQueen, Heather A. – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2021
The transition into higher education stretches students socially, academically and within their personal lives requiring adaptation and development of resilience. For many, such demands may lead to decreased mental wellbeing and, for some, mental ill-health. This project aimed to trial simple mental health awareness and well-being tasks with first…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mental Health, Well Being, Intervention
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Underwood, Sarah; Diaz, Heather; Manieri, Stephanie; Larqué, Magalli – Afterschool Matters, 2023
Out-of-school time (OST) programs that work with historically marginalized youth, employ staff that match the demographics of participants, and are well connected to mental health resources are uniquely positioned to support participants to recognize the risks and assets linked to their mental health and well-being. Such programs can…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Hispanic Americans, Health Promotion, Youth Programs
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Taylor, Nicole; Wright, Jan; O'Flynn, Gabrielle – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
There has been a recent surge in the popularity of school gardening programmes with different models claiming to address learning outcomes within the curriculum. For example, the 'kitchen garden' concept has had a rapid uptake across many Australian schools, promoted by both government curriculum support documents, and private organisations.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Gardening, Elementary Secondary Education
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Fernández, Eluska; Kitching, Karl; Horgan, Deirdre – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
Education policy internationally positions schools as central sites of intervention on 'obesity epidemics', particularly in working class communities. This article presents a moral geographies approach which examines how such obesity-focused healthy food imperatives are experienced in specific places and times. The authors draw on data from a…
Descriptors: Working Class, Food, Obesity, Intervention
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Sprajcer, Madeline; Mander, David; Rigney, Gabrielle; Benveniste, Tessa – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Boarding schools, by definition, house students in residence either on campus or close by in residential facilities - where the sleep environment is likely to differ from their home environment. For boarders, being in the boarding environment occurs alongside a convergence of psychosocial and physiological factors likely to impact adolescent…
Descriptors: Sleep, Preadolescents, Adolescents, Elementary School Students
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Lopes, Henrique; McKay, Veronica Irene – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2021
After more than a year of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, much experience has been accumulated by countries around the world. There have been many failures, and there have been some things that have gone well. Adult learning and education in some form has played a significant role in public health since, without the ongoing continuing…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education
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