Research Plan
01.09.2023. – 31.08.2024.
The publication of the World Health Organization's Global Standards for School Health Promotion (WHO, 2021), which provided a significant and important international background for our team's work, was a major contribution to the work of our research team.
The global standards for the operation of health promoting schools are perfectly aligned with the research, publication and other dissemination plans of our multidisciplinary research team. It has also reinforced our conviction that we need to present our findings in other scientific and professional fields, in addition to educational research and publications, if they are to be integrated into public education. This also justifies the importance of publications in, for example, the journals called Health Promotion, Public Health, Multidisciplinary Health and Wellbeing, Medical Weekly or Children.
These global standards are the guiding principle for the very diverse activities of our research team. Research and/or dissemination activities have been and are being carried out on virtually all global standards within our research group.
Reference
WHO (2021). Making every school a health-promoting school: Global standards and indicators for health-promoting schools and systems. World Health Organization, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240025059
Our research plan for the period 01.09.2023. - 31.08.2024. is as follows
Our original research plan relied more on designing interventions involving public education institutions, research workshops, administrators and policy makers, which is not research-focused enough, and therefore our research plan for year 3 will focus on data collection and analysis, publication and formulation of professional recommendations, with the following activities:
1. In cooperation with the MTA-PTE Innovative Health Education Research Group, comparative analysis of the Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish and Estonian national curricula from the health promotion and health education point of view along the analysis criteria of HECAT (Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool) and with the help of the QDA Miner document analysis program:
01.09.2023. – 31.12.2023.
- Finalise data analyses
- Preparation and submission of publications (2) for the Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education (Education, Q1) journal.
01.01.2024. – 30.04.
- Making recommendations to Hungarian policy makers.
2. Preparation of an exploratory questionnaire for educators based on the guidelines of the WHO policy document Making Every School a Health Promoting School:
09.01.2023. – 31.12.2023.
- finalising the questionnaire
- preparation of the sampling plan
01.01.2024. – 31.03.
- questionnaire query
- data recording
01.04.2024. – 30.06.
- data analysis
- preparing and submitting a publication
- formulating policy recommendations for national practitioners based on the results
3. Review of the training and outcome requirements and curricula of the teacher education programmes from the point of view of how they reflect the preparation for health promotion and health education tasks addressed to teachers by NCC2020.:
01.09.2023. – 01.06.2024.
- finalising data analysis
- submission of PhD dissertation for home defence
- publication of results in a journal to be selected (Q1-Q2)
4. Analysis of Hungarian curricula and directives published between 1868 and 1990, examining the history of health education and health promotion in schools.
01.09.2023. – 30.08.2024.
- finalising data analysis
- preparation and submission of a publication to The Curriculum Journal (Education, Q1).
Szeged, 26.09.2023.
Dr. habil. Tarkó Klára
RG leader