Educating for a healthy, sustainable world: An argument for integrating Health Promoting Schools and Sustainable Schools

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Davis, Julie M
Cooke, Sue M
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2007
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Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth and the British government's Stern Review of the economics of climate change have provided heightened awareness of how humans are over-stretching the Earth's life support systems. The health of human populations and the health of global ecosystems are inextricably linked and the need for fundamental changes in how we live is becoming impossible to ignore. While not the complete answer, education must be a part of imagining and transforming our patterns of living. Learning embedded in educational systems derived from worldviews that replicate unhealthy and unsustainable lifestyles and environments is not a part of the solution but a significant part of the problem. In Australia, two internationally implemented whole-school reform movements, health promoting schools (HPS) and sustainable schools (SS)—seek to provide ways of operationalizing transformative educational processes. Both movements aim to build resilience and optimism, use action-oriented teaching and learning approaches, and have a focus on the future. While these two approaches to educational and social change have much in common, currently there is virtually no conversation between their proponents and advocates. This paper makes a case for HPS and SS to work together—both theoretically and practically—with the ultimate goal being the emergence of schools that are both green and healthy. Such integration would make an important educational contribution to the creation of a healthy, sustainable world.

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Health Promotion International

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22

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4

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© 2007 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Health Promotion International following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Educating for a healthy, sustainable world: an argument for integrating Health Promoting Schools and Sustainable Schools , Health Promotion International, 2007, 22 (4), pp. 346-353 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dam030.

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Curriculum and pedagogy

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Davis, JM; Cooke, SM, Educating for a healthy, sustainable world: An argument for integrating Health Promoting Schools and Sustainable Schools, Health Promotion International, 2007, 22 (4), pp. 346-353

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