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Grounds for health: The intersection of green school grounds and health promoting schools
Citation
Dyment, JE and Bell, AC, Grounds for health: The intersection of green school grounds and health promoting schools, Environmental Education Research, 14, (1) pp. 77-90. ISSN 1350-4622 (2008) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2008 Taylor & Francis
DOI: doi:10.1080/13504620701843426
Abstract
Despite the growing body of research on green school grounds, relatively little has been
written about their relationship with health promotion, particularly from a holistic health
perspective. It is this relationship that we explore in this paper – the power and potential of
green school grounds to promote health and well-being and to be an integral element
of multifaceted, school-based health promotion strategies. Specifically, we bring together
recent research to examine green school grounds as places where the interests of educators and
children’s health advocates can meet, inform and support one another. By grounding our
comments in recent thinking about health-promoting schools, we highlight the growing body
of evidence that green school grounds, as a school setting, can contribute to children’s
physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | school grounds; children’s health; green design; health-promoting schools |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Other education |
Research Field: | Other education not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Other education and training |
Objective Field: | Other education and training not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Dyment, JE (Associate Professor Janet Dyment) |
ID Code: | 53909 |
Year Published: | 2008 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 66 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2009-01-21 |
Last Modified: | 2015-02-10 |
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