Concepts of Healthful Living of Functional Value in the General Education of Elementary School Pupils

A Study of Selected Health Education Implications

“…In health education studies (8,9,15) there was general agreement among authors concerning the precise nature, method of treatment, and graduation of health content. There appears to be a needless amount of repetition of material at each grade level and no treatment of sex education in any of the textbooks.…”

The health knowledge of student teachers

“…Health knowledge of schoolchildren Merrill (1949), Irwin, Merrill & Staton (1953), and Dzenowagis & Irwin (1954) have investigated the health knowledge of primary school children. In the study by Dzenowagis & Irwin, 50 per cent or more of the fifth grade children believed seventy-two health misconceptions.…”