Health and Wellbeing Across Learning

This module considers the participant's role in taking forward national health and wellbeing initiatives within their specific professional context.  It will support participants in developing a critical understanding of the issues and practicalities of promoting a holistic approach to health and wellbeing across learning, and how they can provide a broad range of relevant and realistic learning experiences across all levels of school (or equivalent learning environment) health and wellbeing.

The module aims to enhance participants’ abilities to develop a school/learning environment where young people and children feel happy, safe, respected and included.  Participants will critically review, for example, the shared vision of the SHANNARI wellbeing wheel, alongside global professional practice in school health and wellbeing.  The module will challenge participants to develop professional practice that will promote confidence, independent thinking and positive attitudes and dispositions by exploring the promotion of mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing within and outwith the classroom (or equivalent learning environment) setting.

At the end of this module the student will be able to:

• Critically review current concepts of health and its determinants, health and wellbeing education and health promotion.
• Critically reflect on the factors which influence an individual’s health-related behaviours.
• Demonstrate a critical awareness of the approaches to health promotion and their effectiveness.
• Investigate, critically analyse, and review the shared vision of health and wellbeing alongside global professional practice and current national initiatives related to health and wellbeing in own professional context, and demonstrate how the work undertaken impacts on professional practice.

This is an SCQF Level 11 module and upon successful completion, participants will be awarded 20 credits.

Delivery 

A full timetable will be published in advance of course commencement.

Course presenter

This module will be delivered by Louise Barrett.

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment. To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland.  If you do not meet this criteria, please enquire here.