School health education in the late Qing Dynasty

VernacularTitle:晚清时期学校卫生教育形式
Author: GAO Disi, MA Yinghua, ZHEN Cheng ¹
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1. School of Health Humanities, Peking University, Beijing (100191) , China
Publication Type:期刊文章
Keywords: Public health; Health education; Students health services; Curriculum; Missions and missionaries
From: Chinese Journal of School Health 2022;43(9):1288-1292
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Abstract:Chinese school health education began in the late Qing Dynasty. While both local schools and western missionary schools were involved, each had different characteristics. With the goal of strengthening the country, local schools taught both Chinese and western educational content, and gradually embarked on the road of independent research and development. Missionary schools aimed to spread doctrines and western health concepts, and simultaneously introduced the western school health system. By comparing the development of two kinds of school health education in the late Qing government, this study analyzes the differences between them in terms of their educational objectives, approaches and content. The differences between Chinese and western ideas on education, body and health are summarized and regarded as fundamental factors for their differences.