ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. This part of the book identifies three basic concepts which can serve to provide a context for a model of school and community interaction: The Health Career which provides a means of reviewing the many influences which help shape values, attitudes, skills and behaviour having a bearing upon health. The Spiral Curriculum has largely been used in the context of the school curriculum. Coordination, a concept which has been explored at some depth by the Schools Council Health Education Project as a means of harnessing the human and material resources available in a school to the task of planning and implementing a programme of health education for its pupils. The book then examines the obstacles to ‘the common understanding’, in particular the boundary problems between school and community which prevent or limit productive collaboration.
