Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Suggestions for a Program for Health Teaching: In the Elementary Schools
Probably no field of education within the last two years has shown more originality and vitality than that of health education. Experiments have been made not only by individual teachers but by groups of teachers on a large scale. In the midst of such interesting developments the need of a sound program of health education extending through the grades has become insistent. In this pioneer field certain ideals, principles, and methods have earned merited approval, but the work done has been limited to particular problems. Every serious student of the health situation feels this keenly, but the time is not yet ripe for a definite and complete course of study in health teaching. The whole field is still in a somewhat uncertain state, Educators in general have lost faith in the old-fashioned methods.
This pamphlet is presented merely as a sane basis for wider experimentation. It attempts -
1. To define the goals for an effective program of health education in the schools.
2. To analyze the various factors of school and community that form an integral part of this program, such as board of health, school physician, family physician, school and family dentist, school nurse, teachers, and parents, and the contribution that each, if properly cooperating, may be expected to offer.
3. To outline in a general way the school health activities and the methods of teaching that may prove successful.
While the cooperation of clubs and various organizations with the school is desirable, it can not be made too emphatic that school programs must emanate from the school itself. Any other policy is doomed almost inevitably to failure. School people are likely to resent "meddling with the schools."
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