The health condition of youth as a challenge for educating teachers within the Good Healthy School

Abstract

The article portrays the aims of health‑related education at schools and the necessity of educating teachers in the area of health pedagogy. The first part introduced the health condition of German children and youth from the perspective of social inequality, to underline the key part of the school in the context of health, as an institution which has the possibility to get to all social groups in the important stages of growing up. The second part of the article talks about the “Good healthy school” model, which initiates the health‑related education to the program of educating teachers at the Paderborn University. Further, the method of short videos was represented and used in the seminars of preventive treatment and health‑related education in the thought of empowerment and participation and the notion of „learning by hand, head and heart” (Pestalozzi). The conclusion of the article displays the important role of the health‑related pedagogy in teacher education and its advantages, such as: increasing the teacher’s competence, strengthening the management of health at schools and at the same time increasing the quality of education.