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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
In search of a health education model: Teachers' conceptions in four Mediterranean countries
Global Health Promotion, Volume 18, No. 4, Year 2011
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School programs are defined to promote the health of the pupils and to develop their competencies so that they can adopt behaviors favorable to their health. With the European project FP6 Biohead-Citizen (2004-2007), we analyzed the conceptions of teachers as regards health education, in France, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia, in reference to the biomedical model and the social health model. These four countries were selected because their school curricula represented different models of health education. Lebanon and Tunisia addressed health education with the biomedical model. In Morocco, the curriculum was also primarily based on the biomedical model and enclosed a few instructions issued from the social health model. In France, the health education curriculum declared an approach based on the health promotion model. Our study was based on multivariate statistical analyses of questionnaires filled out by 2537 in-service and pre-service teachers. Our analysis showed that the conceptions of the teachers concerning health education were not structured and related to a specific model. We also found that the dominating factors of influence on the choices expressed with regards to health education were, among different sociocultural variables, the religion, the home country, and, to a lesser extent, the level of training. Thus, the conceptions of the teachers were not integrated into comprehensive approaches but related to individual characteristics. Consequently health education implementation would require thorough training for pre-service and in-service teachers and should also explicitly take into account their conceptions and values. © International Union for Health Promotion and Education 2011.
Authors & Co-Authors
Caussidier, Claude
France, Montpellier
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Didactique, Éducation et Formation
Hage, Fadi El
Lebanon, Beirut
Université Saint-joseph de Beyrouth
Munoz, François
France, Montpellier
Université de Montpellier
Remki, Latifa
Algeria, Algiers
Ministère de L'education Nationale
Larribi, Rym
Tunisia, Bizerte
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Bizerte
Khzami, Salah Eddine
Morocco, Marakech
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Marrakech
Berger, Dominique
France, Villeurbanne
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
de Carvalho, Graça S.
Portugal, Braga
Universidade do Minho
Favre, Daniel
France, Montpellier
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Didactique, Éducation et Formation
Statistics
Citations: 13
Authors: 9
Affiliations: 8
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1177/1757975911422962
ISSN:
17579759
e-ISSN:
17579767
Study Locations
Morocco
Tunisia