Health Literacy and the Australian Curriculum for Health and Physical Education: A Marriage of Convenience or a Process of Empowerment?

Autor/inn/en	Alfrey, Laura; Brown, Trent D.
Titel	Health Literacy and the Australian Curriculum for Health and Physical Education: A Marriage of Convenience or a Process of Empowerment?
Quelle	In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 4 (2013) 2, S.159-173 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1837-7122
DOI	10.1080/18377122.2013.805480
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Information Literacy; Health Materials; Curriculum Design; National Curriculum; Health Education; Educational Policy; Educational History; Health Promotion; Physical Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Informationskompetenz; Lehrplangestaltung; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Australien
Abstract	The concept of "health literacy" is becoming increasingly prominent internationally, and it has been identified as one of the five key propositions that underpin the forthcoming Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (ACHPE). The ACHPE is one of few national curricula to explicitly refer to health literacy, identifying it as an empowerment strategy that involves young people taking action to promote their own and others' good health. Given ongoing concerns surrounding the efficacy of Health Education, coupled with the privileged status of literacy education in contemporary schooling, health literacy could also be viewed as an unsurprising marriage of convenience between health and dominant education discourses. This paper explores health literacy from socio-historical, theoretical and future-focused perspectives. In so doing, it discusses some possible implications, challenges and opportunities that we could expect once the ACHPE is mobilised in schools. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10