Newsletter - April 2018. Data collection in Auckland, New Zealand. After having completed further initial secondments in Sweden and Norway in September.
[EDUHEALTH] Education for Equitable Health Outcomes – the Promise of School Health and Physical Education
Newsletter - April 2018 Data collection in Auckland, New Zealand After having completed further initial secondments in Sweden and Norway in September 2017, the EDUHEALTH project team carried out several pilot studies in their own countries. The data and insights generated from these pilot studies were crucial in refining the methodology and methods for the main data collection activities taking place during 2018 across the three different countries. The most recent secondment in New Zealand during March/April 2018 have involved four of the Swedish and two of the Norwegian EDUHEALTH researchers being seconded to and participating in the data collection across schools in Auckland.
The EDUHEALTH research team planning data collection across schools in Auckland, NZ In total four different secondary schools were involved and data was collected from observations of 10 Health and Physical Education (HPE) lessons and subsequent interviews with six HPE teachers. The focus of both the observations and interviews was on identifying and exploring HPE teaching practices that foreground and act on social justice issues. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 734928. 1
[EDUHEALTH] Education for Equitable Health Outcomes – the Promise of School Health and Physical Education
Good example of practices where broader curricular and school policy interact with the socially-critical pedagogies of HPE were both observed and explored in the interviews. The initial findings and analysis, however, also generated discussions amongst the EDUHEALTH project team regarding how these social justice practices in HPE can and/or should cross cultural/national lines. Both the good examples of practice, and how they can be translated into practice across different school HPE contexts will be further examined in upcoming secondments in Sweden and Norway, September 2018.
Some of the artefacts gathered during the first round of data collection This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 734928. 2
[EDUHEALTH] Education for Equitable Health Outcomes – the Promise of School Health and Physical Education
Later this year, the EDUHEALTH project team will present initial findings from their pilot studies and first round of data collection in New Zealand at a symposium as part of the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Bolzano, Italy. The title of the symposium is “Researching Social Justice and Health (in)Equality across different School Health and Physical Education” and will consist of three different papers. The papers will discuss our: conceptualisation of the term social justice and draw on different theoretical perspectives; methodology and methods for generating data; and initial findings of this project to date in terms of the potential, and difficulties, of researching social justice and health (in)equality across different school HPE contexts. Emeritus Professor Jan Wright, a prominent scholar in field of socially-critical HPE, will act as the discussant for this symposium.
For more information about the EDUHEALTH project: https://lnu.se/en/eduhealth
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 734928. 3
