Assignment Task
Purpose
To have an understanding of a health issue relevant to education through accessing key research findings in young people’s health using various peer-reviewed and government documents.
Task
Examine a health issue relevant to education A minimum of five different sources are to be used throughout the essay. At least, THREE of your sources MUST involve an intervention study. The remaining sources can come from peer reviewed, or other relevant sources (e.g. government documents) that are relevant to the educational context. Intervention studies must be current, and published in a peer-reviewed journal from 2014 onwards
Other sources should be published within the last 10 years, however, it is understood some key sources may be a little older You must discuss each chosen intervention as part of this task. This discussion should include:
The main intervention
How it improved/confirmed your health issue in your education sector or how it connect to any other sources you mention
You can choose to focus your essay on Early Childhood, Primary Education, or just ‘education’ in general. Ensure you connect back to ‘education’ and don’t just talk about your health issue in general (e.g. A topic might be ‘CyberBullying in Primary Schools’, not just ‘CyberBullying’.) The focus of your task should be on the Australian education system. You may have some sources from overseas research, but you need to connect them back to the Australian education system (Do they connect?/Can the findings be used here?)
Remember for this task, there is an emphasis on the use of recent peer-reviewed research that is relevant to educational contexts – try and choose sources that are ‘research’ focused (not just ‘generic information’). All research must focus on children/young people in the Birth – 12 years age group. If an intervention study has a research group of 12-14-year-olds, that is acceptable, please do not go any older (we have an ECE and primary age focus in this unit). Your essay should have an introduction and conclusion
