EDF3091 Health, wellbeing and sustainability in global contexts

This unit further develops and enhances your health-related knowledge, skills and capabilities as a health and physical education teacher. The highly future focused unit aims to extend your critical understandings of the complex relationships between health and wellbeing, humans and nature, and life and death by examining a number of big contemporary global and local (glocal) health challenges. This is done through the lens of sustainability via a focus on social justice, equality, equity, citizenship and ethics. You will evaluate a number of strategies, initiatives and campaigns and in the process will be guided to think creatively in a variety of problem solving contexts. Contemporary glocal content covered within the unit includes (though is not limited to) topics such as poverty, environmental degradation, pollution, war and conflict, globalisation, climate change, big pharma, animal rights, health activism, employment and more. The unit challenges you to think creatively about twenty-first century health challenges and to move towards becoming more compassionate, empathetic and critically responsive health educators and professionals equipped with a glocal outlook on the many complex factors that contribute to a sustainable future and health for all.