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Peer Education: the unauthorised version
Author(s) -
Frankham Jo
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192980240205
Subject(s) - panacea (medicine) , peer education , work (physics) , public relations , psychology , sociology , pedagogy , political science , health education , law , health care , medicine , alternative medicine , mechanical engineering , pathology , engineering
Abstract Peer education — where people are equipped to educate their contemporaries — is an increasingly popular strategy amongst providers of personal and health education in the UK, especially amongst those who work with teenagers and young adults. This article takes an irreverent look at the premises on which peer education has been founded and considers whether the approach is the panacea that so many claim.