CAP-Santé: from the partnership project to the partnership action

Author(s):

Caroline Bizzoni-PrévieuxCAP-Santé Commitee Geneviève Plouffe Joanne Otis

Conference:

ECER 2009

Network:

15. Research Partnerships in Education

Format:

Paper

Session Information

15 SES 05, Health Education

Paper Session

Time:

2009-09-29

08:30-10:00

Room:

JUR, HS 16

Chair:

CORINNE COVEZ

Contribution

In spit of a favourable context of scholar reform [teacher’s reference paper of professional competencies (2001), and Quebec education program: preschool education and elementary education (2001)] which asks the Quebec’s teachers to develop and integrate health education and to work with the educative community to their regular programs, these two elements are still not taken into consideration in the school's practices, except for the physical education teachers whom, in Quebec, have a specific mandate through the third disciplinary competencie to «adopt an active and healthy lifestyle». Some scientific studies (Michaud, 2002; Turcotte, 2006) essentially realized in collaboration with physical education teachers have shown the existence of many obstacles to implementation of the health education programs. Among those obstacles, we listed the gap in health education and partnership competencies, as they work most often alone, etc.

Method

By making the hypothesis that, by training some intern teachers from different training programs of the Education sciences Faculty in health education, by following them during their internship, by following them during internship, by offering some resources to answer their questions, these intern teachers would more easily appropriate themselves the issues of thse new school objects and would diversify their professionnal pratices. The direction committee of «CAP-santé» has developed a pilot project with health education and partnership’s formation to verify their hypothesis. Fifteen intern's teachers on nineteen have completed the project.

Expected Outcomes

Lecture and analysis of different projects in health education, identified by schools as a problem and realized by the intern teachers, have shown that the implementation of a health education project in a partnership perspective depende on some conditions such as the appropriation of health education and partnership by the intern teachers, the implication of the school team or external actors in the project and also the collaboration and accompanying of the associated teacher. Among the projects realized by the interns, we find more frequently partnerships in the school like the physical education teacher and the art teacher. Only one intern had an external partnership. We can make the hypothesis of a lack of time or abilities from the part of the interns. Inthe future, we would like to repeat this experience ona larger scale because it is a promising strategy.

References

MEQ (2001a).Programme de formation de l’école québécoise (primaire) http://www.mels.gouv.qc.ca/lancement/prog_formation/index.htm MEQ (2001b). La formation à l’enseignement, les orientations, les compétences professionnelles. http://www.mels.gouv.qc.ca/dftps/interieur/PDF/formation_ens.pdf Michaud, V. (2002). L’intégration de l’éducation à la santé dans les programmes d’éducation physique du primaire et du secondaire. Thèse de doctorat inédite, Université Laval, Québec. Otis, J., & Bizzoni-Prévieux, C. (2008). Le modèle d’inclusion de l’éducation à la santé à l’école au Québec. Défis pour la formation et les pratiques des enseignantes et enseignants. 2ième Colloque national sur la formation des enseignants en éducation à la santé et prévention des conduites addictives. Paris, 20 mars 2008. Turcotte, S. (2006). L’inclusion de l’éducation à la santé en éducation physique : analyse des pratiques pédagogiques d’éducateurs physiques du primaire. Thèse de doctorat inédite, Université du Québec à Montréal, 419 p.

Author Information

Caroline Bizzoni-Prévieux

Université du Québec à Trois Rivières

sciences de l'activité physique

Trois-Rivières

CAP-Santé Commitee

Université du Québec à Montréal

Geneviève Plouffe

Chaire de Recherche du Canada en Éducation à la Santé

Joanne Otis