Healthy History: Promoting students’ mental health in history education

Description

Dutch secondary school students reported the lowest level of life satisfaction in twenty years and more and more students in the Netherlands have mental problems (e.g., Boer et al., 2022). Teachers and schools want to help but experience an inability to act and a lack of subject-specific classroom materials that promote students’ wellbeing. Therefore, the aim of the Healthy History project is to develop and test history classroom materials that promote students’ resilience and wellbeing. Based on the results from a curriculum analysis, interviews, and a questionnaire, the presentation will discuss the possibilities and challenges regarding the promotion of students’ mental health in history classrooms. The presentation will end with two practical examples of promoting students’ mental health using family history and historical knowledge of pandemics.

Periode	1-sep.-2023
Evenementstitel	HEIRNET 2023
Evenementstype	Conference
Locatie	Stockholm, SwedenToon op kaart
Mate van erkenning	International