Collaboration within the Context of the Healthy School Approach (HSA): The Case of a Disadvantaged Elementary School in Quebec

This case study focuses on the groundwork aiming at developing school-family-community collaboration in the deployment of the HSA in a low socio-economic status elementary school. Two theoretical models - the HSA and Hoover-Dempsey et al. (1997, 2010) models - guided the analysis of five discussion...

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Published in:Canadian journal of education 2011-12, Vol.34 (4), p.158-176
Main Authors: Rivard, Marie-Claude, Deslandes, Rollande, Beaudoin, Charlotte
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Case Studies
Children
Children & youth
Collaboration
Communities
Community relations
Discussion Groups
Education
Educational Attitudes
Educational Practices
Elementary Schools
Encouragement
Exercise
Family School Relationship
Foreign Countries
Health behavior
Health Education
Health savings accounts
Lifestyles
Longitudinal Studies
Low Income
Low socioeconomic status
Medical practice
Nutrition research
Parent Attitudes
Parent Participation
Parents
Quebec
School Community Relationship
Studies
Teacher Attitudes
Teaching methods
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Summary:This case study focuses on the groundwork aiming at developing school-family-community collaboration in the deployment of the HSA in a low socio-economic status elementary school. Two theoretical models - the HSA and Hoover-Dempsey et al. (1997, 2010) models - guided the analysis of five discussion groups (N=31) regarding their perceptions of the place of health in school and of parents' and educators' health related practices to support HSA deployment and to establish the pathway to a better school-family-community collaboration. The school is committed to health despite its low economic status. Encouragement, modeling and teaching are the perceived practices or actions.
ISSN:0380-2361
1918-5979