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Understanding Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education in Secondary Schools
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Understanding Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education in Secondary Schools

First Edition


January 2017 | 336 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This book provides an overview essential for a proper understanding of effective approaches to PSHE education in secondary education and the valuable role it can play in promoting the health and wellbeing of adolescents.

 

Coverage includes:

  • The importance and scope of PSHE education
  • The theory and research evidence for effective practice in the secondary school
  • School structures which support effective teaching and learning in PSHE education
  • Assessment for, and of, learning in PSHE education
  • The role of visiting experts in PSHE education
  • Overlaps with pastoral and therapeutic support

 
Introduction
 
Part 1
 
Understanding adolescent development
 
Theory, evidence and practical approaches to effective teaching and learning in PSHE education
 
The organisation of PSHE education in the curriculum
 
Starting 'where young people are': planning learning in PSHE education
 
Assessment learning in PSHE education
 
Part 2
 
Understanding risk during adolescence
 
Understanding the role of PSHE in promoting mental health and emotional wellbeing
 
Understanding drug education within PSHE education
 
Understanding relationships and sex education (RSE) within PSHE education
 
Economic wellbeing and PSHE education
 
Part 3
 
PSHE education and school policy matters
 
Understanding the relationship between PSHE education, pastoral care and therapeutic interventions
 
Selecting PSHE education teaching material and resources and the effective use of visitors to the classroom
 
Part 4
 
Appendix 1: Using story, ‘case studies’ and timeline in PSHE education
 
Appendix 2: Summary of organisational models for the teaching of PSHE education
 
Appendix 3: Baseline assessment tools
 
Appendix 4: Key data on adolescence in 2015

Understanding PSHE Education in Secondary Schools is an accessible read for all educators concerned with promoting and delivering high quality PSHE education. It provides a theoretical underpinning to the subject, as well as practical ideas and case-studies.  It is invaluable in its guidance for the PSHE subject leader on how s/he might organise the curriculum content, model of delivery and activities, what works well and what to avoid. It focuses on developing skills and attitudes, as well as knowledge, to ensure that young people are equipped for life beyond school and into the future. The approach is positive and inclusive, clearly steering the reader away from shock tactics and didactic messages in favour of empowerment and pro-choice teaching.

 

Throughout the book there are opportunities for the reader to reflect on one's personal values and experiences and activities to support the refining of one's own teaching of PSHE education.

 

The most challenging and sensitive subjects within PSHE are considered candidly and honestly with clear application opportunities in real-life situations, thus supporting the educator to be prepared and confident in his/her teaching. The context is very much up-to-date and relevant to the teaching of young people in an ever-changing world.   

 

 

 

Julie McCann
School Improvement Officer, Liverpool

An excellent resources not just for newly qualified teachers of PSHE but all teachers. It is a good resource manual to refer to when trying to achieve best practise in PSHE teaching.It is laid out very clearly with aims and objectives clearly indicated which teachers can identify with. The information is current and unto date including reference to the new Character Education framework.It sets out the importance of setting ground rules and includes guidance on teaching sensitive issues. Clear referencing aids further study for those teachers who may want to pursue further research into a specific topic.It highlights the importance of the subject not only to the students themselves, but to the school’s need to safeguard children and provide teaching models for school to adopt in order to meet Ousted’s ‘Outstanding’ criteria..This is a handbook for every PSHE lead.

Marilyn Worthington

This is a highly informative and usable text that would be particularly suited to teachers embarking on their first pastoral role. It covers lots of vital areas of PSHE, including adolescent development, emotional health, drugs and sex education, and explores some of the links between these areas and relevant policy. The tone of the discussion in the text is accessible and direct. It also contains activities and opportunities for reflection that new teachers will find very helpful.

Dr Louise Campbell
Moray House School of Education, Edinburgh University
February 17, 2017

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