Overview
- Equips readers with an overview of the latest international research within the fields of health promoting schools
- Provides strong rationale and clearly advocates for combining health promotion and education for sustainable development in schools
- Focuses on similarities, differences and potential synergies between the concept of health promoting schools and the concept of education for sustainable development
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Health Promoting Schools and Education for Sustainable Development
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Partnerships, Standards and Change
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Examining Implementation
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Venka Simovska, PhD, Professor and Director of the Research Programme on Learning for Care, Sustainability and Health at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. Professor Simovska also leads the newly established Research Centre on Schools for Health and Sustainability at the Department. She is chair of two international research networks: Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) Research Group and Health Education Research (network within the European Association of Educational research (EERA). Simovska has authored and co-authored a number of books, book chapters and Journal articles within the field. Most recently, she has guest edited two special issues of Health Education focusing on Processes and Outcomes of Health Promoting Schools.
Patricia Mannix McNamara, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Education in the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Education and Professional Practice (RCEPP). Patricia has expertise in both health and education and has authored and co-authored books, book chapters and journal papers spanning both fields. She has been a national evaluator for ENHPS since 1999 and is a core group member of the Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) Research Group.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Schools for Health and Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Theory, Research and Practice
Editors: Venka Simovska, Patricia Mannix McNamara
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9171-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9170-0Published: 14 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0355-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9171-7Published: 03 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 431
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Health, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sociology of Education