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CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, AND PEDAGOGY article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1408965
This article is part of the Research Topic Vaccine Education and Promotion View all 8 articles

One Health Education for Criticality on Vaccination in teacher training

Provisionally accepted
Inés Martínez Inés Martínez 1*Blanca P. Mauriz Blanca P. Mauriz 1Araitz Uskola Araitz Uskola 2
  • 1 Department of Applied Didactics, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
  • 2 Department of Didactics and School Organization, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain

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    Vaccines are the basis of health of our communities since they prevent severe infectious diseases. However vaccination rates continue to decrease due to the spread of misinformation about their side effects, which enhances vaccine hesitancy and puts at risk public health. Introducing vaccines from the One Health approach can help to develop an integral understanding of their role and to apply critical ignorance as part of criticality to avoid vaccine hesitancy and raise trust in science. This paper presents a design on vaccination for secondaryeducation teacher training developed towards this goal.The design presented in this paper draws from previous studies on critical thinking, on vaccine rejection, and the One health approach on other health issues in Secondary Education. The focus of this design is engaging secondary-education pre-service teachers in the practice of critical ignorance and criticality to assess diverse pieces of information on vaccination from the One Health approach.Results: This study discusses the design principles and the activities of an original design that aims to provide Secondary Education teachers with some tools to introduce critical ignorance and criticality for addressing misinformation on vaccines by using the One Health approach.Discussion: If secondary science teachers are going to successfully confront misinformation on vaccination in their science instruction, we need to develop and test designs and approaches that prepare them for this purpose. Critical ignorance plays a central role in managing misinformation; thus, such instruction should engage future teachers in critical evaluation of information on vaccination, as well as in the application of the One Health approach to take responsible actions.

    Keywords: One Health, Vaccines, Criticality, Critical Ignoring, biology education, teacher training

    Received: 29 Mar 2024; Accepted: 11 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Martínez, Mauriz and Uskola. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Inés Martínez, Department of Applied Didactics, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Galicia, Spain

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