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Health Education Research Advance Access originally published online on June 25, 2007
Health Education Research 2007 22(6):864-878; doi:10.1093/her/cym023
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The changing meanings of participation in school-based health education and health promotion: the participants' voices

V. Simovska*

Research Programme for Environmental and Health Education, The Danish University of Education, Tuborgvej 164 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark

* Correspondence to: V. Simovska. E-mail: vs{at}dpu.dk

This paper addresses the issue of student participation and learning about health from the perspective of health-promoting schools. The combination of the democratic approach to health-promoting schools, characterized by the concepts of student participation and action competence, and the sociocultural theory of learning provides the conceptual framework for the discussion. The two sets of concepts help the building of a heuristic that views teaching and learning as mutually constitutive, establishing an integrated unit of analysis. Data are generated from a Web-based international project ‘Young Minds exploring links between youth, culture and health’. The project has its roots in the European Network of Health Promoting Schools (ENHPS). The methodological framework is constructed as theoretically based qualitative case study, using Web contents analysis and interviews with the participating teachers and students. A model distinguishing between two different qualities of student participation—token and genuine—is used as an analytical tool in analyzing the empirical data. The analysis of the case study illuminated the trajectories of participation in which students learned about health in intentional, relational and purposeful ways. These participation trajectories were viewed as situated in activity structures consisting of a variety of mutual interactions and different forms of participation.

Received on April 20, 2007; accepted on April 20, 2007


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