This ebook aims to place the spotlight on educational research and its contribution to the field of school based health and wellbeing promotion. The purpose is to bring together scholars from across the world to consider current developments in research on curricula, interventions, policies and practices concerning health and wellbeing promotion and related professional development of teachers. The six papers in the ebook draw from a range of critical perspectives to engage with questions of everyday school health education and health promotion. Together the studies reveal some of the challenges encountered by researchers, teachers, parents and students who are entangled in school health education. The papers also highlight the value of utilising social theory to both form research questions and engage with data. The collection offers critical insights into the everyday of health and wellbeing education and promotion practices in schools in diverse educational and sociopolitical contexts, and their effects to demonstrate both the limits and possibilities of critical health work in schools.