Undergraduate Course: Health and Wellbeing 2 (EDUA08118)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education and Sport |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Building on the Year 1 Health and Wellbeing 1 course, this course provides students with the opportunity to apply the knowledge and understanding developed about the concept of health and wellbeing to consider implications for teaching and learning. Students will consider how physical education is positioned with health within the school curricula both nationally and internationally. Holistic approaches to teaching health and wellbeing will be explored emphasising the relational nature of teaching, establishing boundaries and interagency working. |
| Course description |
This course has been designed to be a professionally authentic experience, aligning itself with, and pushing forward, current research and policy thinking in Scotland and internationally on physical education and health. Through the course, and its attention to students building on their starting point of their understanding of their own health and wellbeing they will be able to make explicit their own aims, engaging with constructivist, critically-informed and transparent teaching which reflects the critical engagement that we wish our students to enact.
The course has four central elements running through it:
- Health and Wellbeing within school curricula
- The relational nature of teaching and learning
- Establishing boundaries
- Interagency working
Students will be supported by tutors and peers to engage critically with the GTCS Standard for Provisional Registration throughout the course considering how it relates to teaching health and wellbeing.
The course content is delivered in a variety of ways i.e. whole group lectures, small seminar group discussions and student led tasks. In addition to the taught lecture and seminar programme, students will learn independently e.g. undertaking set reading prior to each session, as well as completing formative and summative assessment tasks.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Engage with relevant research and theoretical perspectives and use these to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the position of health and wellbeing within curricula.
- Develop knowledge and understanding of approaches to teaching and promoting positive health and wellbeing.
- Demonstrate understanding of the teacher¿s role in promoting health and wellbeing through the teaching of physical education and within school contexts.
- Develop skills in collaborative working, specifically negotiation and cooperation, to gather and critically analyse information.
- Communicate accurately and reliably making use of digital literacy skills to convey information.
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Reading List
1. Gray, S., MacIsaac, S. & Jess, M., 2015. Teaching 'health' in physical education in a 'healthy' way. Retos, 28, pp 26-33.
2. Gray, S., Mitchell, F., Wang, C. J., & Robertson, A. (2018). Understanding students' experiences in a PE, health and well-being context: a self-determination theory perspective. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 9(2), 157-173.
3. Hardley, S., Gray, S., & McQuillan, R. (2020). A critical discourse analysis of Curriculum for Excellence implementation in four Scottish secondary school case studies. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1-15.
4. Holt, D. (2019). Promoting Positive Mental Health in the Primary School: Theory Into Practice. Routledge.
5. Lynch, T. (2019). Physical Education and Wellbeing: Global and Holistic Approaches to Child Health. Springer International Publishing.
6. Smith, H., and A. McGrandles (eds), The Impact of Mental Health and Wellbeing On Effective Learning & Teaching: A Practical Guide For Those Responsible For Learners (Book 1 and Book 2). Airdrie: Swan and Horn. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Graduate Attributes: Research and Enquiry
1) search for, access, critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise relevant literature and information in order to develop their knowledge and understanding relating to education, physical education, physical activity, sport and well-being
Graduate Attributes: Personal and intellectual autonomy
3) be open to new perspectives, methods and creative ideas in understanding education, physical education, physical activity, sport and well-being
Graduate Attributes: Skills and abilities in communication
2) be able to use communication as a means for collaborating and relating to others including staff, fellow students, research participants
1) be able to communicate using oral and written methods to specialist (e.g., staff, fellow students) and non-specialist audiences (e.g., schools, research participants)
Graduate Attributes: Personal effectiveness
5) be able to effectively work collaboratively with others, recognising the diversity of contributions individuals can make |
| Keywords | Health and Wellbeing,Curriculum,Teaching,Learning |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Murray Craig
Tel: (0131 6)51 6043
Email: mcraig2@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Barbara Kucharska
Tel: (0131 6)51 1196
Email: v1bkucha@ed.ac.uk |
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