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| Jennifer Fane - Post Graduate Seminar |
Today I had the pleasure of presenting my current research initiative to faculty members and post-graduate students here at Flinders. This seminar series runs weekly, and is a space where academic staff and post graduate students share their current projects and initiatives. It has been a fantastic opportunity to learn about what colleagues are doing and exciting new areas of research that are being done here in the School of Education.
My presentation, entitled Engaging Students in a Social View of Health" builds on the writing I have been doing on engaging young children in health equity instead of charity, and links to a current research project I am involved in with my undergraduate students. Here is a link to the prezzi presentation for anyone interested.
The current research project I'm involved in surrounds a topic I teach in, Foundations of Health Education (HLPE 1540), with another colleague in Health Education and two more colleagues from the Student Learning Centre here at Flinders. With the support of FEFRI (Flinders Educations Futures Research Institute) and a faculty grant, we are exploring how the topic HLPE 1540 has engaged students in a social view of health. As out students (mostly PE majors) come into university with a very individualistic view of health, our challenge is to develop their sociological imagination, or capacity to view the world socially. Developing a social view of health is essential for health educators as it explores how social health inequalities are social constructs, not inevitable outcomes, and allows for discussion and thinking about health differently - attempting to move students away from an individualistic paradigm which reproduces health inequity.
The presentation was very well received and will be bases for a forth coming publication and a symposium presentation at the AARE (Australian Association for Research in Education) in Adelaide in December 2013.
A photo of myself and the amazing colleagues I have here at Flinders
