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Siobhan O’Higgins, Elena Nora Delaney, Miriam Moore, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn & Jo Inchley Development of a method for improving student’s participation in Ireland pp 209-213
In Ireland, there was a focus on working with students in the classroom to develop indicators of a health-promoting school. The philosophy of health promotion emphasizes community participation as integral to the success of all health-promoting interventions. An aligned step could be to develop, disseminate and adopt methods that enable all members of a community, such as a school, to participate in developing appropriate health promotion indicators. This research focused on enabling students to identify indicators pertinent to them and their health within their own school. Once identified by students, the
indicators could be used to explore the extent to which their school may be considered a health-promoting school. The indicators identified by the students are relevant to the individual, classroom, and the school. This research verified how willing students are to become involved in such participatory activities and their enthusiasm to present their ideas to adults who are willing to listen. Of particular importance are the holistic nature of the views they shared about how schools affect their health and their ability to creatively articulate what they believed would be indicators of a health-promoting school.

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