The academic setting has a significant influence on the well-being of
children and teens. Effective school leadership is, therefore, essential
in promoting a healthy school environment. This book, the first of its
kind in Hong Kong, establishes the kind of leadership a health-promoting
school needs to be successful. It explains the steps school leaders
should take to promote health, beginning with an explanation of the link
between health and education, and then moving into a discussion of how
schools can be transformed and what sort of leaders are required for
such a transformation. These changes can be applied in individual
classrooms and schools, as well as more broadly across whole education
systems. The theoretical healthy school framework outlined in the main
text by Dr Robin Cheung, a seasoned scholar-practitioner in the field of
school health promotion, is complemented by success stories written from
interviews conducted by Dr Cheung's co-authors, which are included in
the supplemental material of the book. These anecdotes and quotes from
these stories enliven the text and narrate how principals in Hong Kong
have transformed their schools into successful and thriving
health-promoting educational settings. This volume draws particular
attention to the role of leadership and management in promoting health
and learning in educational and academic settings that will be of
interest to school leaders, policy makers, and educators alike. Leading
Healthy and Thriving Schools in Hong Kong: Theory and Practice is the
first book in the Healthy Settings Series, which focuses on the
upstream, midstream, and downstream approaches for improving population
health and reducing health inequity in various settings and contexts.
