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Relevant background information
In the late 1980s translations and adaptations of certain activity sheets were made by World Vision in Taiwan. They are available from the Child-to-Child Trust in London. In 1990, UNICEF and the Child-Development-Centre of China mounted a pilot project (reports available) and in 1997 UNESCO printed its Children, Health and Science, which contains Chinese versions of 22 activity sheets together with an introduction on methods and approaches. In 2003, UNESCO confirmed the use of this document in teacher education in Teachers Colleges and of the Child-to-Child approach in its HIV/AIDS awareness programmes.
Many programmes, containing aspects of the approach, certainly exist in China but need to be identified and followed up. Notes below are merely illustrative of a large range of initiatives.
Note 1
Yunan Province
Materials used in Community Development through Education programmes; Kuming
An adviser working with Kuming Medical College is using Child-to-Child materials from Resource Books Parts 1 and 2 with students in village schools. He has asked the public health department staff to translate some of the material and there are plans for further use.
Date: 2005
Source: Raewyn Chirnside (raewyn@solic.net)
Note 2
Children’s Clubs Broadcast on Safety
Chinese TV station CCTV celebrates ICDB (International Children’s Day of Broadcasting) 2004
China Central Television (CCTV) broadcast a 30-minute TV Special to mark the 2004 ICDB through its Children's Channel on 12 December 2004 at 09:30. The programme was repeated at 15:20 on the same day and 11:30 and 14:30 on the next day through the same Channel. The 30-minute programme took the theme of "Building a Safer World Together" and focused on the issue of child injury, which was explored by children themselves through the network of the CCTV Digital Video (DV) Clubs as well as through interviews with their peers, parents and child injury experts. The videos were made by primary school students aged 7-12 from Beijing and the provinces of Anhui, Zhejiang and Yunnan.
From the nearly thirty mini-documentaries selected for submission to CCTV, three were shown during the TV Special. After being given careful instructions not to "stage" injuries for their productions, the children went out with their DV cameras to explore and document potential sources of injury in their immediate environments. A studio discussion was then held between the young producers, their peers and parents. The 2004 UNICEF ICDB TV-spot was downloaded from the UNICEF website by CCTV and edited into both their ICDB programme and a spot announcement broadcast frequently on the CCTV Children's Channel from one week before the ICDB itself.
Date: 2005
Source: Unicef website
Note 3
Project on Developing School-based Nutritional Education through Child-to-Child Approach in China
Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, Peking University China
In October 2001 a school-based nutrition education study using the Child-to-Child approach was conducted in two cities in the Shanxi Province and Zhejiang Province. There were nine primary schools in the two cities that participated in the study and a total of 3635 students were involved. The overall objective was to encourage children to improve the nutritional habits of themselves and their families through active learning and spreading health messages. A needs analysis was conducted at the start of the project using qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours related to the diet of the teachers, students and parents in the participating schools. A manual was developed on nutrition education using the Child-to-Child approach which was adapted. In the first step known as learning and thinking the trained teacher discussed relevant nutrition topics with the students using active methods like brainstorming, games, role-play, mapping and stories. In the second step known as communication the children were encouraged to communicate their ideas and information learnt in class with their parents and other students through a survey. In the third step known as action, students spread their nutrition knowledge through different kinds of activities, such as dramas, broadcasts, posters, and exhibitions. Finally, the children evaluated the action they took through questionnaires, individual review and group discussion. Although the project ended in 2002, it provided meaningful suggestions about the way forward for the future of school health education in China.
Date: 2005
Source: Xiaoming Yu (xmyuh@yahoo.com.cn)
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