Promoting health in school curriculum - curriculum coals and strategies for their implementation in primary schools
Abstract
According to the European strategy of health promotion Framework Educational Programs define goals of health education and assumes that learning about health and affecting its development and protection becomes one of the priorities of school education. Experience at basic schools shows that curricular transformation of health promotion poses high requirements on schools.
Therefore in the process of creating school educational programs systematic approach to education towards health is not always respected. The workplace of Education towards Health at Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University in Prague deals with issues related to implementation of health promotion into basic school curriculum and to development of methodology of pedagogical research in this field.
The paper presents partial outcomes of the research having been conducted in 2009 at 160 chosen basic schools. Applied methodology enabled systematically examine, to what extent the requirements of framework curriculum are realized in practice.