Health, power and education: Key frameworks and practices

This unit is the first of four designed to develop and enhance the health-related knowledge, skills and capabilities of Monash Health and Physical Education (HPE) pre-service teachers. Health and education are powerful partners collaborating across various areas including health promotion, public health, schooling and public settings. Recognising the importance of this relationship, the unit serves as a foundational course for examining various health frameworks, theories, concepts, and processes, with a particular emphasis on health education. It explores a range of interconnected aspects of health including, for example: First Nations communities, wellbeing and planetary health. A key aim of the unit is to build the necessary preliminary health knowledge and technical skills base to move into teaching health education in a variety of contexts, for example HPE, health promoting schools or community health partnerships. The unit takes an active approach to learning that includes developing skills in academic research and cooperative learning.