When it comes to the education of children there’s nothing more powerful than the perspective of those children. Nobody knows a person better than they know themselves and other generations won’t have nearly as much of an insight into the minds of children as they may think they do. It’s not so much of a theory as it is common sense and it’s being embraced all over the world, most effectively within the world of child-asthmatics.
The main issue with the respiratory inflammation condition which is asthma is that it’s most dangerous when it’s ignored or misunderstood. It can be lived with, you can do almost anything a healthy person can do if you’re an asthmatic and it’s no reason to give up on your dreams. Due to lack of information or education people seem to miss these facts in favour of the popular myths that asthmatics will struggle to run longs distances and wheeze when they do. Some of the best athletes in the country are asthmatic, providing you plan for and respect your condition there’s very little you can do which will actively endanger yourself.
An Asthma education programme is currently being tested for its viability and so far it’s ticking all the boxes. It involves getting children involved in group discussion and asking them to talk about their own experiences with their condition. The teachers aren’t handing out the answers they’re asking the kids you pool their own knowledge and share it communally. This is great as it gets children talking and helps them understand the condition much more in –depth as they’re learning from people with perspectives similar to their own.
Kids have loved the course and seem to be getting to grips with asthma and its idiosyncrasies at a much faster pace when they’re involved in it than when they’re involved in more traditional teaching methods.
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