Inquiry
Inquiry
Inquiry
How has the Inquiry Project experience advanced my understandings of what good
health education might be and why?
The inquiry project experience helped advance my understandings of what good
health education is and taught me a range of different processes that can be used for
the teaching process. Our inquiry project was about researching and creating
awareness about the dangers of drugs. In my group project we used and facilitated a
variety of processes, which help teach children about health education. Surveys,
talking, researching, making the video and the presentation to our class were the
processes my group used and helped advance my own understanding of what good
health education is. This essay will look at the different types of health education we
have explored this semester. To answer the question about what good health
education is, the topics that were studied in health this semester, our tutor assigning
us this specific project, what processes we used as a group and our presentation to
the class, will all be focused on.
Throughout this semester a lot of content and learning processes have been included
to teach us what health education is. I feel as though my understanding has changed
drastically and I now have a more diverse perception of the types of topics health
incorporates. Prior to undertaking this course, I thought health was simply related to
our personal health. In the first class, as one of the learning processes, we were asked
to draw what we thought health was. Immediately I drew, the environment, healthy
food, exercise and people. I learnt that Indigenous Health, gender, health promotion,
power and politics are also all part of health education and play an important role on
our perception of health. In our last class we repeated this process and through my
drawings it was obvious how much my understanding of what health was had
expanded. I feel as though this process was very efficient and got me to reflect and
understand how and where my understanding for health had changed. Each week my
tutor used a variety of different processes to keep us interested and actively
participating to educate us about different aspects of health. The process of group
work I found to be very effective. Each week we sat in small table groups and worked
together on different activities. Group work is a very efficient way of learning and I felt
comfortable talking about health in smaller groups rather than as a whole class. A less
effective learning process for me was when we would all sit in a group as a class and
discuss answers. I felt as though this wasnt as effective for me as I always felt
pressured to have the right answer. Due to the class being 3 hours long, I feel as
though there needed to be more content covered per class. Only one or two different
activities were usually done each week and I feel as though if it were split into smaller
sections my attention span would be greater and I would stay more focused.
This being our final assessment, our tutors assigned us this project and let us choose
our own groups and topic. Originally this was quite daunting as I felt there was little
guidance on what we were required to do. As a group we used the learning process of
researching and talking to help us decide what we wanted to focus on. The learning
process we used was group work. Working in a group is quite challenging at times,
due to the fact every member was at UNI on different days and times, it made it very
difficult for us all to organise a time to meet up and work on the assignment together.
Unfortunately, one of the group members wasnt there for the making of the video,
however they had their input of research and ideas and communicated with the rest of
the group via email to ensure they equally contributed to the assignment. Although
group assignments are challenging for various reasons, they allow a range of ideas
and opinions to be expressed and collaborated and are a highly effective way of
teaching and understanding health education. An improvement for this assignment,
Reference List
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