Health, education, health education teaching philosphy
A personal philosophy is cultivated through experiences, learnt behaviors, and education. Health is in itself, a philosophy. It is a multi-faceted idea that can be expressed through many different components. The seven main components of health are physical, social, emotional, spiritual, mental, sexual, and environmental health. All of these components are combinable, as well as able to stand on their own, to explain health. From my experience, the society we live in values physical health above others. However, old philosophies regarding different aspects of the six components left are beginning to reemerge. This revisiting of those philosophies has lead to "western" culture allowing new outlooks on health and its many aspects. My personal philosophy regarding health stresses the importance of spiritual, mental, and emotional health. I believe that these are three of the most important aspects of health, and cause a trickledown effect, affecting not only the 4 other aspects of health, but an overall well being. My belief toward health, as it relates to education, has recently grown over the past few years. Not only holding opinion, but now fostering also knowledge to support the evidence I have seen. Growing up in the United States and being accustomed to a "typical" American education of sitting behind a desk, has not failed me up to this point. I feel that I have learned a lot of useful information that will assist me throughout my life. Due to my upbringing, this model of education was my idea of the best way to educate students. I saw only that America, a highly intelligent and developed nation, used this method to teach. Leading me to the conclusion that the best way to teach a subject, would be to follow suit. I assumed it was normal for students to complain about doing homework or fall back on the excuse, "when am I ever going to use this?”. Those excuses reach outside the classroom as well, raining down onto the parents at home throughout the United