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Promotion of Health Education in Primary Schools--Béatrice Descamps-Latscha
Promotion of Health Education in Primary Schools--Béatrice Descamps-Latscha
Pages 84-91
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Likewise, the sensitization of school-age children toward diseases and disabilities -- avoiding stigmatization -- could be of great importance for solidarity, respect, and tolerance toward "others," not only within but also beyond the school. In developing countries, a large part of disease prevention already relies on health education of children through nongovernmental organization initiatives such as health-promoting schools and the Child-to-Child Program initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO)
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Several world summit forums have been held, leading to declarations for improving the health, education, and development of children, and, through them, families and community members. The discussions have been mainly devoted to developing countries and aimed at preventing diseases related to poor environmental conditions (lack of drinkable water, malnutrition, defective personal and community hygiene)
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In its final report, the World Education Forum also stressed, "Effective health education responds to a new need, increases the efficacy of other investments in child development, ensures better educational outcome, achieves greater social equity and is a highly cost effective strategy." The report proposed the FRESH (Focusing Resources on Effective School Health) framework as a start for enhancing the quality and equity of education.
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LA MAIN À LA PÂTE: A NOVEL APPROACH TO HEALTH EDUCATION The recent development of inquiry-based science teaching owes much to the efforts of the scientific community. In France, three physicists -- Georges Charpak, Pierre Léna, and Yves Quéré -- launched their own version of inquirybased science teaching under the label La main à la pâte (translated as "Hands on" in English)
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The general idea of La main à la pâte is to enable children to participate in the discovery of natural objects and phenomena, to bring them into contact with the phenomena in their reality (outside virtual reconstructions) directly through observation and experimentation, to stimulate their imagination, to broaden their minds and to improve their command of the language (see Box 3)
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As in many other industrialized countries, obesity appears to follow an epidemic progression from very early in childhood. Recent statistics on overweight children in the United States indicating that it affects nearly 25 percent of children under the age of ten justifies the sensitization of children on the important roles of balanced diets and physical activity.
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However, many countries have started to develop nutritional education programs directly within schools. The nutrition education module To Eat and to Move for My Health recently proposed by La main à la pâte (Bense et al., 2008)
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L'aventure de la main à la pâte. Paris: Odile Jacob.
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