Health Education: what influences teachers ’ and future teachers’

One of the major objectives of the European FP6 BIOHEAD-CITIZEN project on “Biology Health and Environmental education for better citizenship ” (STREP, CIT2-CT2004-506015, Carvalho et al. 2004) is to analyse the potential differences between countries by associating teachers ’ and future teachers ’ conceptions to controlled parameters, such as level of training, religion, political view and the broad socio-cultural context. A questionnaire was constructed with the participation of all Biohead-Citizen project research teams. The original English version was translated into each national language and after validation of the translation it was pre-tested before implementation in each country. A total of 6379 teachers and future teachers responded to the questionnaire. They were from 16 countries (of the 19 composing the Biohead-Citizen consortium) fro