Purpose: The aim was to identify the competencies professionals need to promote co-creation engagement within communities. Design/methodology/approach: Co-creation could contribute to building community capacity to promote health. Professional development is key to support co-creative practices. Participants were professionals in a position to promote co-creation processes in health-promoting welfare settings a...
The Co-creation Welfare training course has been developed within the European ERASMUS+ Project called “Co-creating Welfare”. The motivation for the development of the training course is a broadly political acknowledged need for reorganisation within the welfare sector in order to obtain a more sustainable and cost-effectiveness sector. Organisations that offer welfare services to citizens are often struggling ...
Le travail que nous présentons ici s’insère dans le cadre du projet européen « Biohead-Citizen : Biology, health and Environmental education for better Citizenship » (FP6, CT2-CT2004-506015, Carvalho et al., 2004). Nous présentons ici lest résultats, issus de quinze pays, sur deux thèmes – l’éducation à la santé et l’éducation à la sexualité – qui étroitement liés aux conceptions individuelles des enseignants. ...
No âmbito do projeto Europeu Biohead-Citizen “Biologia, Saúde e Educação Ambiental para uma melhor cidadania” foi levada a cabo uma análise comparativa no tópico “Reprodução Humana e Sexualidade”, para a qual se construiu uma grelha de análise específica aplicada em manuais escolares de 16 países (Alemanha, Chipre, Estónia, Finlândia, França, Hungria, Itália, Líbano, Lituânia, Malta, Marrocos, Polónia, Portugal...
Cet article présente les résultats une partie de l’analyse de 6001 questionnaires recueillis auprès d’enseignants et futurs enseignants de 15 pays (Europe, Afrique et Moyen-Orient) dans le cadre du projet Biohead-Citizen. Il s’agit d’identifier les différences de conceptions des enseignants sur l’éducation à la santé et à la sexualité et de mettre en exergue les facteurs les influençant. Nous avons procédé par ...
School Sex Education is nowadays an important public health issue as it concerns not only youth AIDS prevention (and other sexually transmitted infections) and adolescent pregnancy prevention but also interpersonal relationships and psychosocial issues. Therefore school sex education contributes to promote better citizenship. The European FP6 Biohead-Citizen research project aims to understand how biology, heal...
School Sex Education is nowadays an important public health issue as it concerns not only youth AIDS prevention (and other sexually transmitted infections) and adolescent pregnancy prevention but also interpersonal relationships and psychosocial issues. Therefore school sex education contributes to promote better citizenship. The European FP6 Biohead-Citizen research project aims at understanding how biology, h...
Our study focused on two topics, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and the control of STIs using condoms. For this, we analysed and compared 42 school textbooks from 16 countries on the general topic “Human Reproduction and Sex Education” using a specific grid designed by the BIOHEAD-CITIZEN project. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was a common topic in all the textbooks that were analysed, alth...
School-based education programmes are particularly good at providing information and opportunities for skills development and attitude clarification in more formal ways, through lessons within a curriculum. To public health, school sex education is nowadays an important public health issue as it concerns not only youth AIDS prevention (and other sexually transmitted infections) and adolescent pregnancy preventi...
One of the major objectives of the European FP6 BIOHEAD-CITIZEN project on “Biology Health and Environmental education for better citizenship” (STREP, CIT2-CT2004-506015, Carvalho et al. 2004) is to analyse the potential differences between countries by associating teachers’ and future teachers’ conceptions to controlled parameters, such as level of training, religion, political view and the broad socio-cultura...