Whole people: putting personal and social issue into school health curricula—a case study from Australia

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This paper briefly reviews the development of health education in the government schools in Victoria, Australia. The dominant ways health has been addressed in the school curriculum has changed from a biological framework in the 1960s, to health and human relationships in the 1970s, to reasoned decision making in the 1980s and now the social health framework of Health for AlL The two current curriculum documents, the Personal Development Framework developed in the mid 1980s and the Victorian Certificate of Education Health Education Study published in 1990 are briefly examined and their relationships to Health for All noted. The teachers leading these developments drew their inspiration, not only from any organised health movement, but from the intellectual currents flowing through their spheres of involvement, for example teachers' unions and academia. Nevertheless, through Health for All, connections are beginning to develop between the health and education sectors and, in specific projects, with others such as local go vernment.

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