Challenging Oppression in Health Promotion and Developing an Intersectional Framework for Health Promotion in Teaching Health Promotion Through a Distance Learning Module at the Open University

Douglas, Jenny (2022). Challenging Oppression in Health Promotion and Developing an Intersectional Framework for Health Promotion in Teaching Health Promotion Through a Distance Learning Module at the Open University. In: Akerman, Marco and Germani, Ana Claudia Camargo Gonçalves eds. International Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Health Promotion : Practices and Reflections from Around the World. Springer Cham, pp. 633–648.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96005-6_39

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the Open University ‘Promoting Health’/Promoting Public Health module, discussing how it attempted to challenge oppression in teaching health promotion from the outset and how through the development of the module it incorporated an intersectional approach to teaching promoting public health. The chapter starts by giving an overview on the history and context of health promotion in the UK. The chapter argues that health promotion practitioners and academics in the UK were drawn to health promotion practice and teaching from an activist background having been involved in feminist activism through the women’s health movement, the emergent ecological movement, the civil rights movement and the gay pride movement and brought these approaches to health promotion. The chapter will critically analyse some of the difficulties associated with adopting the terminology ‘Promoting Public Health’ such as the use of the terminology ‘public health promotion’. The chapter concludes with an examination of the development of a totally online module and the opportunities to transfer this model of teaching to others and the importance of developing anti-racist and intersectional pedagogy in the teaching and learning of health promotion and public health.

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