...David Cashman; Wesley O’Brien; Fiona Chambers Purpose This study aims to capture children’s interpretation of holistic well-being within Irish primary schools and add to the development of a comprehensive systems-informed positive education model. Design/methodology/approach This study...

...Hadil Elsayed Purpose This study aims to explore school health promotion (HP) as a set of institutionally embedded professional practices. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative study using data from nineteen interviews with school professionals in Sweden. Data analysis was informed...

.... Design/methodology/approach A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was adopted to understand the nature and meaning of the phenomenon of well-being. Interviews were carried out with 54 principals, teachers, parents and grandparents from a representative sample of primary schools in Ireland. Each...

...Andreas Åvitsland; Stein Erik Ohna; Sindre Mikal Dyrstad; Hege Eikeland Tjomsland; Øystein Lerum; Eva Leibinger Purpose This paper evaluates the implementation of a school-based physical activity intervention and discusses how the intervention outcomes can be influenced by the implementation...

...Debbie Ollis; Lyn Harrison Purpose – The health promoting school model is rarely implemented in relation to sexuality education. This paper reports on data collected as part of a five-year project designed to implement a health promoting and whole school approach to sexuality education in a five...

... consumption, physical activity and diet) in adolescence and to affect health. The review integrates evidence with socio-ecological factors (social relationships, family, peers, schooling and environment). Design/methodology/approach – The data were collected from electronic databases and by manual...

... and environmental determinants of health and thus avoid stigmatization. Practical implications – The paper can be useful for curriculum designers and school educators. It describes how the design of a health education curriculum and health education lessons can refrain from burdening the individual with total...

...Magdalena Woynarowska-Soldan Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the concept, methods of implementation, results and experiences from the first stage of the three-year project on school staff health promotion carried out within the framework of the health-promoting school (HPS...

.../approach – This study used participatory action research methods to explore why primary school-aged children make the food choices that they do. A non-government primary school requested assistance in encouraging their children to make healthier choices from the school canteen menu. The authors gathered...

...Charlotte Taylor; Penney Upton; Dominic Upton Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the evidence base of the Food Dudes healthy eating programme, specifically the short- and long-term effectiveness of the intervention for consumption of fruit and vegetables both at school and at home...

...Professor Venka Simovska; Dr Ros Kane; John P. Elia; Jessica Tokunaga Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how school-based sexuality education has had a long and troubled history of exclusionary pedagogical practices that have negatively affected such populations as lesbian, gay...

...Dan Grabowski; Katrine K. Rasmussen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore different kinds of authenticity in four health courses for adolescents. In school-based approaches to health education it is often difficult to present health in ways that make sense and appeal to adolescents...

...Dominic Upton; Charlotte Taylor; Penney Upton Purpose – This study is based on previous research which suggests that the Dudes programme increases children's fruit and vegetable consumption for school-provided meals by assessing its effectiveness in increasing the provision and consumption...

...Helen Burchett This paper aimed to identify the key elements that should be included in a fruit and vegetable‐promoting programme in British primary schools. Such a programme could be used in healthy schools schemes or “five‐a‐day” programmes. Five US school intervention studies were analysed...