Dear All,




 

For those interested in settings health promotion ,
you may find the book "

 

Complexity science, schools and health:
Applications for management of change in schools to promote health and
education" which has been  just published
 in Germany interesting to read.

 

This book tries to answer the questions regarding
whether schools as social systems exhibit characteristics attributed to Complex
adaptive systems, and if yes how similar or different they are compared to
natural or artificial complex adaptive systems and  finally  what  difference it may make to considers schools as
CAS in  our approach to schools while
trying to promote education and health in schools . The book discusses the
significant differences social CAS have with other type of CAS.

 

The book
examines the education sector’s perspectives and experiences on health
promoting schools. It uses complex adaptive systems theory as a guiding
framework to inform the research in different stages of the data collection,
data analysis and finally the discussion. The thesis includes seven chapters
organised in four sections.

 

 

Don Nut beam wrote the foewrod for the book as
follow:

 

 

……." Disappointingly, as with previous school health programs, achieving successful
implementation and sustaining the positive benefits of health promoting schools
has proven to be challenging in evolving, complex school systems. Nastaran
Keshavarz’s study is groundbreaking in the way in which it draws upon systems
science to examine the relevance and usefulness of the concept of complex adaptive systems as an approach
to better understanding ways in which health promoting school interventions
could be introduced and sustained. She has used this foundation to shed new
light on the priority and values that schools place on health, and how school
principals and teachers manage competing demands in a complex system. Understanding
schools as social complex adaptive systems may help to explain some of the
challenges of introducing and sustaining change in schools. These insights may,
in turn, lead us to adopt more sophisticated approaches to the diffusion of new
programs in school systems that account for the diverse, complex and context
specific nature of individual school systems."

 

Penny Hawe comments on the book
as follow:

 

Simple,
complicated, or complex? What difference might this make? This  book  invites this interrogation. More effective and
more sustainable change  processes may
result. Readers from both the education  and health will keenly identify with the analyses
presented here  Immensely valuable and
readable, this introductory text embraces diverse  contexts and makes sense of them."

 

 

Please
find the copy of book cover as attched.

 

Best
Regards


................................ 
Dr Nastaran Keshavarz Mohammadi 
PhD, Health Promotion 
Director, Health Promotion Unit , Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Iran 

Coordinator, EMRO Health Promotion Network 

Global secretary for Equity and Diversity(ISECN)http://hpequitydiversity.blogspot.com/ 

International Union for Health Promotion and Education,Paris, France 

skype ID:nastaran.keshavarz

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