Course and Subject Handbook

This subject is designed to lay a foundation for the teaching of health and well-being education in primary and secondary schools. Interactions between the individual, peers and community with their socio-cultural, physical, political and economic environments will form the basis of analysis. Students will be introduced to the determinants of health, health literacy, salutogenesis, and health promotion to understand the relationship between young people's health and learning. The subject encourages students to become critical consumers of health and wellbeing programs and initiatives through understanding how health is socially constructed. Students confront key issues within health education and develop ideas on how to deal with what are frequently sensitive and controversial areas of the curriculum.