Tackling Health Education in the Textbooks of Life and Earth Sciences at the Lower Secondary Education in the Kingdom of Morocco
Keywords:
Textbooks- Health Education - use of medicines- safety and prevention of accidents- the human body- Community Health- Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ., Lower Secondary Education- MoroccoAbstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the concepts of health education,
which should be included in the books of life and earth sciences in their recent
copies for the three secondary levels in Morocco, and the extent to which
these books addressed the concepts of health education.
We have been prepared and applied a methodological card for analyzing
the content of the secondary school programs, which it formed in its final
formula of (30) concepts distributed in (8) principal areas. The most important
results of this study are as follows:
16 concepts, among the total ones in the book of life and earth sciences
for the first year of secondary cycle, have been touched; while The book of
the second year addresses to (11) concepts and the one of third year touches
25 concepts.
The three programs included most of main areas of health education.
Their presence in the book of third year are with a significant proportion
while for the first and second years of secondary cycle it has been overlooked
a range of areas such as personal health and the health of the environment
for the second year, and the use of medicines for the first year; it was also
addressed to some concepts with a weak proportion such as health food in
the first and second years (25%) , and the health of the community (40%) in
the first year.
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