Pedagogical competence and value clarification among health educators
Individual and social values are increasingly important in health education. This article examines how health educators in Greenland and Denmark engage in value clarification as part of their educational practices. It presents the results of a study of health professionals in a variety of settings,...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1757975909339767 2024-10-06T13:49:07+00:00 Pedagogical competence and value clarification among health educators Wistoft, Karen 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757975909339767 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1757975909339767 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Global Health Promotion volume 16, issue 3, page 24-34 ISSN 1757-9759 1757-9767 journal-article 2009 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1757975909339767 2024-09-10T04:25:02Z Individual and social values are increasingly important in health education. This article examines how health educators in Greenland and Denmark engage in value clarification as part of their educational practices. It presents the results of a study of health professionals in a variety of settings, focusing in particular on how development work and experimentation can strengthen their pedagogical competences. The study focuses on belief, reasoning, interpretation and reflection, rather than routines, skills, or ethical rules, and takes a participatory approach that oscillates between dialogical and qualitative empirical methodologies. It observes pedagogical practice in selected settings in Greenland and the municipality of Copenhagen. Within the framework provided by four discourses that appear to organize communication about health, it shows how values became important to the progress of two research-based development projects. On this basis, the article argues that health education can be effectively grounde d in the values, perceptions, and experiences of a given population, while being guided by the health educators’ biomedical knowledge and educational values. (Global Health Promotion, 2009; 16(3): pp. 24—34) Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland SAGE Publications Greenland Global Health Promotion 16 3 24 34 |
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Individual and social values are increasingly important in health education. This article examines how health educators in Greenland and Denmark engage in value clarification as part of their educational practices. It presents the results of a study of health professionals in a variety of settings, focusing in particular on how development work and experimentation can strengthen their pedagogical competences. The study focuses on belief, reasoning, interpretation and reflection, rather than routines, skills, or ethical rules, and takes a participatory approach that oscillates between dialogical and qualitative empirical methodologies. It observes pedagogical practice in selected settings in Greenland and the municipality of Copenhagen. Within the framework provided by four discourses that appear to organize communication about health, it shows how values became important to the progress of two research-based development projects. On this basis, the article argues that health education can be effectively grounde d in the values, perceptions, and experiences of a given population, while being guided by the health educators’ biomedical knowledge and educational values. (Global Health Promotion, 2009; 16(3): pp. 24—34) |
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