A whole‐school approach to adolescent peer‐leader development for affective learning in health‐related curricula
| Autor: | D. S. G. Carter |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | Research Papers in Education. 14:295-319 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1146 0267-1522 |
| Popis: | This evaluation research study adopted a whole‐school approach, within a case‐study framework, to developing the health‐related affective learning of adolescent peer‐group leaders. The attendant strategies were effected in anticipation of a multiplier effect of peer‐leader influence affecting lifestyle choices across the school population. Health educators used the dynamics of the adolescent peer group, and peer‐supported learning, as the primary strategies to facilitate the transfer of authentic health/sexuality knowledge and attendant social skills across the school community. The high school selected as the case‐study school attracted supplementary funding under the Australian Government's Priority Schools Programme addressing educational and social disadvantage. A cohort of adolescent peer leaders, together with members of their peer group(s), was identified within the population of a single outer metropolitan high school. Adolescent peer leaders participated in an extracurricular programme i... |
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