Abstract
Health is coconsidered as goodness; therefore, schools should be places where healthy habits, along with evidence-based medical knowledge and practices, are taught and practised. The key persons in education are teachers, so their opinions and worldviews should not be neglected. The objective of this work was to identify opinions about health education among Slovenian teachers. We investigated the worldviews of and differences between pre-service and in-service Biology teachers about health education. The questionnaires were delivered to 163 Sloveian participants. Most differences in opinion occurred in the nutrition field between younger and older participants. The majority of participants (85%) agree that “Providing knowledge or developing behavior that is respectful of one´s own health” is the main goal of health education.
Highlights
To wish someone good health is a traditional birthday or New Year’s wish probably in all cultures around the world
We investigated the conceptions among Slovenian participants regarding health education
A biochemical model of health education could be detected, and this carried a risk that the teaching emphasized biology facts rather than social and psychological elements (Caussidier, Hage, Munoz, Remki, Larribi, and Khzami; 2011), both are vital for basic and complete citizen health knowledge
Summary
To wish someone good health is a traditional birthday or New Year’s wish probably in all cultures around the world For this wish to be realized, it should be supported by healthy habits at the personal level and medical support at the societal level. Because of the great importance and serious consequences of health, everybody should be properly educated in finding and evaluating evidence about proposed practices that can sometimes be competitive. Such education should not be left to self-education and chance alone. Knowledge is vital, about the existence, and about the strength of such factors affecting actual behavior, and this is the heart of the problem addressed in this paper
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