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Teachers' perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at-risk school/communities
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/70002 Teachers' perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at-risk school/communities Botha, Karien u11048213@tuks.co.za Shaik Mahomed, Ruzaika UCTD Health promotion Teacher perceptions Learner wellbeing Nutrition education Teacher involvement Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2018. Despite health promotion interventions having been implemented in some low-income settings, there is very little evidence reporting on the need for school-based health promotion interventions in urban at-risk communities in South Africa. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe teachers’ perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at-risk school communities, in terms of nutritional needs, physical health needs and socio-emotional health needs. This study forms part of a broader health promotion project which aims to facilitate health and well-being in urban at-risk primary school communities, with the prime goal of social change. Phenomenology was utilized as meta-theoretical lens and a qualitative research approach was followed. I selected Bronfenbrenner’s Bio-ecological systems theory and Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory of human development as the guiding framework for this study. The existing data utilised for this study forms part of the Educational Psychology dataset of two cohorts of Grade 1 to 3 teachers’ (2016) in the broader health promotion project. A descriptive case study design was employed to purposefully select PRA data of n=17 teachers from two urban at-risk primary schools in the Pretoria area. The data set and data sources included visual data, namely; PRA-based posters, photographs and field notes. Following a primary inductive thematic analysis, three themes and related subthemes emerged. The first theme relates to teachers’ perspectives of contextual needs that necessitate a school-based health promotion intervention. Teachers discuss needs in the educational context as well as needs in the family context that necessitate a school-based health promotion intervention. Secondly, content for a school-based health promotion based on the contextual needs was identified as a theme, indicating that teachers displayed a clear understanding of health promotion and what should be included in a health promotion intervention. The third theme highlights teachers need for pre-service and in-service health promotion training as well as teachers’ perspectives on the need for caregiver training in health promotion. The findings of my research indicate that teachers perceive learner’s poor lifestyle habits to be a result of adversity occurring primarily in the family context. Further, the research reflects that by identifying the relevant needs of the at-risk school community, in terms of food consumption practices, physical fitness and socio-emotional behaviour, may in turn effect change in informing a school-based health promotion intervention. es2026 Educational Psychology MEd Unrestricted SDG-03: Good health and well-being SDG-04: Quality education SDG-10: Reduced inequalities 2019-06-02T11:39:46Z 2019-06-02T11:39:46Z 2019/04/16 2018 Dissertation Shaik Mahomed, R 2018, Teachers' perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at-risk school/communities, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70002> A2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70002 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Health promotion Teacher perceptions Learner wellbeing Nutrition education Teacher involvement Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Teachers' perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at-risk school/communities |
| title | Teachers' perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at-risk school/communities |
| title_full | Teachers' perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at-risk school/communities |
| title_fullStr | Teachers' perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at-risk school/communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teachers' perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at-risk school/communities |
| title_short | Teachers' perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at-risk school/communities |
| title_sort | teachers perceptions of a health promotion intervention in at risk school communities |
| topic | UCTD Health promotion Teacher perceptions Learner wellbeing Nutrition education Teacher involvement Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70002 |