Student health and wellbeing
Most adults find it difficult to keep an exercise programme going; but active children become active adults. The benefits, and the limits, are spelt out.
Asking very young children to draw can reveal a great deal about how they are coping with school, what they are learning and what they regard as important. Better teaching can follow.
An innovative approach for introducing an HIV/AIDS topic to the health curriculum, showing the importance of involving parents in knowledge transference.
How bodies are constructed within the popular physical culture in Australia, with implications for health education and promotion via physical education in schools.
Can young children differentiate between dangers and safe play? Understanding the young child's view of the world has implications for road safety education.
What do young children really think of superheroes? Should parents and teachers be concerned about their fascination?
Who is encouraging them? Is it the media, their friends, their mothers or, in a surprise result from this study, their fathers?
Children have some very good ideas on how they could be disciplined without the use of physical punishment.
Well directed play can help children overcome their fears and phobias. Two case studies from a leading American play therapist.
Although many states in Australia have abolished corporate punishment, are teachers replacing authoritarian beliefs with democratic ones when dealing with classroom discipline?
