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Author Nyika, Lawrence, author

Title Advancing a health promoting schools agenda for black students / Lawrence Nyika
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 108 pages) : illustrations
Contents Chapter 1. Autobiographical Context: Who am I as a Person and Researcher? -- Chapter 2. Introduction to Health Promoting Schools (HPS): An Integrated Approach to Schooling -- Chapter 3. Being Black in Health Promoting Schools (HPS) -- Chapter 4. Culturally Relevant School Health Promotion: Fighting Black Students' Marginalization and Disproportionate Schooling -- Chapter 5. Culturally Relevant School Health Policing in Zimbabwe
Summary This book centralizes the importance of using culturally relevant models within health promoting schools (HPS) to promote the participation of Black students. In current HPS models Black students are often overlooked. The author presses beyond the mainstream, science-focused research on HPS to grapple with issues of power, prejudice, and oppression and focus on the social determinants of health. By focusing on social constructs as a constraint to Black students' wellbeing (rather than only disease), chapters present a multidimensional whole-school intervention aimed at comprehensively bridging the empowerment gap between Black students and historically privileged students. Lawrence Nyika recently completed his PhD in Educational Studies at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia. Currently, Lawrence is a part-time lecturer with the Institute for Capacity Development at Great Zimbabwe University. His research interests include health promoting schools, social determinants of health, and Black education
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 2, 2023)
Subject Students, Black -- Health
Health promotion.
Health education.
Health Promotion
Health Education
Health education.
Health promotion.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3031447026
9783031447020