The health knowledge of student teachers

Pre-Service Teachers Training for Efficient Health Promoting School Activities Performance

“…With this in mind, the concept of health-preserving competence has been introduced into educational practices as skills and awareness that cover knowledge of the human body structure and functions, norms and rules of hygiene, healthy lifestyle preservation, experience of health-preserving activities. Due to this transformation, health-preserving competence has become a pedagogical category, and the process of its development has become an object of pedagogical influence (Blanchard, 2006;Druz et al, 2017). Hence, the social significance of health culture raises the issue of teacher training to develop health-preserving competence in youth applying appropriate and efficient educational strategies and technologies.…”