Výchova ke zdraví v učebnicích 1. stupně ZŠ: výsledky analýzy didaktického aparátu učebnic prvouky/přírodovědy

• Authors: Hrozová Markéta

Title variants

EN

Health education in primary school textbooks – results of a content analysis

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the empirical study is to present results of content analysis of a didactic apparatus of the textbooks/workbooks of the subject natural science for elementary schools in terms of their focus on health education. The first part of the study presents the theoretical foundations of the research, which consisted in defining analytical categories arising from the holistic concept of health. The second part presents the objectives and methods of the research, a research sample consisting of five sets of current comprehensive natural science textbooks (38 textbooks / workbooks, 3136 research units) valid for primary education. The third part is devoted to the results of the analysis, which pointed out the significant differences in the presentation of the curriculum in health education. The results show disagreement with the holistic concept of health in its full representation, and a majority of biological context of health in the analysed textbooks. The holistic concept of health is mainly reflected in 2nd grade textbooks. Then we pointed out the significant differences in the structure of the curriculum in each textbook set (for example, absence of health education topics in most 4th grade textbooks), and its instability in the distribution of thematic units of the research sample. At the end of the study (fourth and fifth part), the results of the study, the possibilities and limits are discussed, and potential follow-up research is presented.

Keywords

EN

health education; primary education; textbooks; holistic concept of health; content analysis; didactic apparatus of textbooks

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Czech Pedagogical Society
• Journal: Pedagogická orientace (Journal of the Czech Pedagogical Society)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 249–270

Contributors

author

Hrozová Markéta

• Redakce časopisu Pedagogická orientace, Doc. PhDr. Tomáš Janík, Ph.D., M.Ed., Institut výzkumu školního vzdělávání PdF MU, Poříčí 31, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic