Promoting adult education for a sustainable future: fostering healthy lifestyles

Abstract

As an integral part of the concept of lifelong learning, non-formal learning enables adults to acquire the necessary skills to adapt more easily to the ever-changing social life.Concerned with these values, through the lens of the ODD, with reference to Health and well-being, which indicates "ensuring a healthy life and promoting well-being for all ages", we wanted to investigate a group of teachers who followed a training program aimed at the healthy lifestyle of the educable. Healthy lifestyle education can play a significant role in changing health behaviors and attitudes towards our own health, as well as those we educate. Teachers become not only mentors for children, but also role models. Starting from this concept, we want to find out if the learners are able to include healthpromoting behaviors in their daily routine and if they implement strategies that promote health, well-being, for themselves, including the learners. A number of N=63 teaching staff from Iași county, located in the north-eastern part of Romania, participated in this study. Of these, a number of N=35 respondents teach at the preschool education level and a number of N=28 at the primary education level. All respondents are female, of whom N=49 teach in urban areas, and N=14 in rural areas. The research tools were applied in electronic version, using Google forms. The obtained data were statistically analyzed using IBM SPSS software. Findings indicate significant effects of the training program on all target variables. The results of this research will be used to add to our knowledge of behavioral change and learning in adulthood.

Keywords

• teacher training
• health promoting behaviors
• obesity
• sustainable educational interventions