The Division of Health Education
— its Program and Membership

by DR. EDNA W. BAILEY

Chairman, Division of Health Education

Association, younger and weaker than the Division of
Physical Education, perhaps a little further advanced

in its development than is the Division of Recreation.
The purpose of the Division is to give opportunity
for coordinated work on health education problems by
all the specialists who are professionally concerned with
them, and to sponsor through the Association, and in the
National Education Association, the findings of the Di-
vision with regard to school health policies and curricula.
These findings will command respect and receive atten-
tion in proportion as the Division membership is inclu-
sive, representative, and experienced.

[= Division is one of three coordinate parts of the

Division Organization

This consists of a Division Council, elected by the Sec-
tions belonging to the Division. The chairman of the
Council is a member of the Legislative Council of the
Association, and a member-at-large of the Governing
Board. The Chairman of each Section is a member of the
Legislative Council of the Association. This representa-
tion provides opportunity for expression of points of
view characterizing the health sections. The function of
the Division Council is to give each of the different pro-
fessional groups easy access to candid and expert criticism
of their findings on school health. The physicians and den-
tists are ready to validate the factual material and discuss
the emphasis to be placed on various topics in the health
course of study; the health teachers are prepared to
explain to the school physician the pedagogic blunders
in his plans for an efficient school health service—and
so on. From such pooling of resources we should be
able to develop statements about school health plans and
practices which will be sound, practical, and understand-
able by parents and by school people generally. We may
hope to bring about greater unanimity among experts in
this field, thereby securing much better support and
understanding from the public. A very simple program,
backed by all the professions concerned, will have a
better chance of acceptance than any plan favored by
one group but criticized unfavorably as to detail by all
the others.

Sections affiliated with the Division are five in number,
at present. Additional sections may be organized with
consent of the Legislative Council, as need and interest
develop. Each Section has the right to present at least

one program at the annual meeting of the Association;
sets its own membership requirements and formulates
its program. There are no Section nor Division dues.

Membership in the Sections is open to interested per-
sons who meet the Section requirements and who are
members of the Association or of the N.E.A., or of both.

The chief advantage of Section membership is the
opportunity offered to make a contribution to school
health work in a direct and effective manner; the con-
tacts with fellow workers are stimulating; and there is
an unusually good opportunity to publish findings where
these will become immediately available to school people
generally.

The following statements present the work of each
Section very briefly. If you are interested, send in your
application to the chairman of the Section in which you
wish to work.

I. Section on Education of Teachers

Purpose.—The Teacher Education Section seeks to
promote the best possible training of classroom teachers,
health educators, and school administrators in health
subject matter and in the field of health education meth-
ods. The Section seeks to reach its objectives through
bringing together the professional workers in this country
who are concerned with these particular problems, and
through the research and recommendations of special
Section committees.

Membership.—Membership is open to all those who
are professionally concerned with these problems.

Officers.—The officers of our Section are: (1) Dr. C.
E. Turner, Department of Biology and Public Health,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chairman; (2)
Dr. Anita Laton, University of California, Vice-Chair-
man; (3) Dr. Mabel Rugen, University of Michigan,
Secretary and Treasurer.

Notes on Progress.—The Section Meeting in Atlanta
will be devoted to a consideration of the teacher-educa-
tion problem on the North American continent—the
United States, Canada, and Mexico. Speakers will pre-
sent teacher-education activities of special interest in
each of these three countries and the Section will hold
a discussion of the work of the Section committee in the
teacher-education field.

A publicity committee has been appointed composed