PRT4202 Educating for Healthy Communities (FOEDU)

Semester 1 (ONC)Toowoomba (ONC)Fraser Cst (ONC)Springfld

Units 2.0 (Nursing Education Teacher Trai) Band 5

Pre-requisite: PRT3201 and PRT3202

State law in Queensland (Australia) requires that all adults working/undertaking professional experience/researching with children under the age of 18, in the state of Queensland are required to possess a current suitability card (Blue Card). (See "Other Requirements" for further information.) Also see: http://www.childcomm.qld.gov.au/employment/bluecard/informationSheets.html

Synopsis

This course will require students to build on understandings of current curriculum statements in the areas of HPE and SOSE in coming to understand and promote the role of teachers as major contributors to the development of healthy communities. Theoretical issues to be addressed in this course are: notions of health; the concepts of community, governmentality, and interdependence; and transformative pedagogy. The course will require students to demonstrate professional competence in planning and teaching for personal, social and environmental health. Successful completion of a related professional experience program and a practical games and aquatics module is required. The use of computer-based simulation software in teaching about communities is also a feature of this course. Explorations of healthy environments will also draw on inputs and insights from environmental science derived from both (so-called) Western and alternative sciences, including indigenous sciences. Students in this course will participate in an associated professional experience of 10 days during which they will be encouraged to apply their learning from the course and from which they should be able to bring fresh insights to the course work.