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Teachers as Human Rights Defenders: Strengthening HRE and Safeguarding Theory to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
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Draugedalen, Kjersti; Osler, Audrey – Human Rights Education Review, 2022
Sexual abuse is a public health issue with long-term consequences for children's lives and education. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is a key reference point in safeguarding, increasingly incorporated into domestic law. This article aims to strengthen safeguarding theory and practice by reviewing human rights education (HRE) theory and…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Civil Rights, Child Abuse, Childrens Rights
A Critique of the Brushing for Life Programme
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Downer, Martin C.; Drugan, Caroline S.; Blinkhorn, Anthony S. – Health Education Journal, 2006
Background and objective: Brushing for Life is intended to promote regular brushing of children's teeth with fluoride toothpaste. The programme is delivered by health visitors who provide toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental health education material at children's 8, 18 and 36 month development checks. The purpose of the present paper was to…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Public Health, Dental Health
Tackling Obesity in Children through Physical Activity: A Perspective from the United Kingdom
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Fox, Kenneth R. – Quest, 2004
Childhood obesity has become an emotive and serious problem in Europe. In the UK, it has generated a great deal of interest by the media, health professionals, food companies, scientists, and more recently, the government. Upward trends have been recorded in most countries, levels are interestingly variable, and the origins of this variation have…
Descriptors: Child Health, Public Health, Life Style, Obesity
Nutrition Health Promotion in Schools in the UK: Learning from Food Standards Agency Funded Schools Research
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Woolfe, Jennifer; Stockley, Lynn – Health Education Journal, 2005
Objective: To test the feasibility and effectiveness of dietary change interventions in UK school-based settings. This overview draws out the main lessons that were learnt from these studies, for both practitioners and researchers. Design: A review and analysis of the final reports from five studies commissioned by the Food Standards Agency.…
Descriptors: Research Design, Physical Activities, Health Promotion, Nutrition
"The Only Problem Is, Children Will Like Their Chips": Education and the Discursive Production of Ill-Health
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Evans, John; Evans, Bethan; Rich, Emma – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
On 16 January 2002, the United Kingdom House of Commons Select Committee published a report entitled "Tackling Obesity in England". Drawing on insights from the work of Bernstein, Bourdieu and Foucault, this article will suggest that the report provides an example "par excellence" of the way in which "the body" (our…
Descriptors: Obesity, Eating Disorders, Youth, Foreign Countries
Health Promotion: A Resource Book.
Anderson, Robert, Ed.; Kickbusch, Ilona, Ed. – 1990
Health promotion redirects thinking about health by: reasserting its social and political aspects; ensuring the people the power to define their own health concerns; and placing health more clearly in the context of other aims in life. This compilation of 41 articles in 8 sections attempts to document this process of redirection of thought. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Health, Children, Community Health Services