Class Education, Health and Exercise

This course focuses on the field of Health Education, seeking to provide students with knowledge and skills that enable them to develop interventions to promote physical activity and other health behaviors (eg healthy eating) through physical activity, in school contexts, that are effective and tailored to the target population. It aims to: a) Encourage understanding and development of a critical reflection capacity about the main theoretical models and their potential for explanation of reality. b) Mobilize theoretical and methodological knowledge in the promotion of intervention projects for the promotion of health behaviors, identified as problematic in a school context, through the application of well-known or well-developed intervention strategies. c) Encourage the appropriate use of experiential and/or active learning methodologies, appropriate selection of information sources and their presentation.

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1. Health Promotion Project Development Models   1.1.Phases of development of intervention projects (different approaches: e.g., Cycle Phases in School Contexts; Intervention Mapping)   1.2.Health counseling skills   1.3.Research skills and critical analysis of information 2. Health education in the school context   2.1.The role of physical and social context in health behaviors. Main determinants of health behaviors' adoption.   2.2.Theoretical models of health education 3.Experiential and Active Learning: New Models of Health Education and Training   3.1.Active learning and its different approaches   3.2.Fundamentals and experiential learning cycle   3.3.Style, space and conditions for experiential learning

Making questions that elicit students' critical thinking through guided discovery. Experiential activities.

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