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Practice of Advancing Health Education through School–Family–Community–Medical Collaboration from the Perspective of the Overlapping Spheres of Influence — A Case Study of Rencheng Experimental Primary School in Jining City

Guide to Education Innovation / 2025,5(4): 236-245 / 2025-12-22 12 1

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• Authors: Suqiu Xu Ge Li
• Information:

  Rencheng Experimental Primary School in Jining City, Jining

• Keywords:
  Overlapping spheres of influence; School–family–community–medical collaboration; Health education; School–family cooperation
• Abstract: Based on the theory of overlapping spheres of influence, constructing a collaborative “school–family– community–medical” education model is an inevitable choice for advancing students’ health education and addressing the practical dilemmas of collaboration. Taking Rencheng Experimental Primary School in Jining City as a case, this study systematically elaborates the three major barriers currently facing school–family– community–medical collaboration: barriers of consensus, collaboration, and accountability. To respond to these challenges, the study adopts the theory of overlapping spheres of influence as its theoretical foundation and constructs a collaborative model for students’ health education centered on internal and external structures. On this basis, five practical strategies are developed: establishing the institutionalized platform of the “Double Apricot Education Alliance”, implementing list-based accountability management, developing the “Parent–Child Academy” curriculum, designing practice pathways based on Epstein’s six types of involvement, and creating the data-driven evaluation toolkit known as the “Top Ten Families”. Practice demonstrates that this model effectively improves students’ health levels, significantly reduces the incidence of psychological problems and myopia, enhances the collaborative effectiveness of schools, families, communities, and medical institutions, and forms a replicable and promotable practical example, providing important reference for the construction of regional collaborative education mechanisms.
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.35534/gei.0504025 (registering DOI)
• Cite: Xu, S. Q., & Li, G. (2025). Practice of Advancing Health Education through School–Family–Community–Medical Collaboration from the Perspective of the Overlapping Spheres of Influence — A Case Study of Rencheng Experimental Primary School in Jining City. Guide to Education Innovation, 5(4), 236-245.