The Impact of New Health Imperatives on Educational Policy and Schooling (Hardcover)

Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young people's diets, and a putative steep rise in obesity. Children and young people are increasingly being identified as a population at 'risk' in relation to these health concerns. Such concerns are driving what might be described as new 'health imperatives' which prescribe the choices young people should make around lifestyle: physical activity, body regulation, dietary habits, and sedentary behaviour. These health imperatives are a powerful force driving major policy initiatives on health and education in a number of countries in the Western world. Schools in particular have been targeted for the implementation of a plethora of initiatives designed to help children and young people lose weight, become more active and change their eating patterns inside and outside school. Addressing these issues requires an innovative theoretical approach. Neither the fields of 'eating disorders' nor 'obesity research' has addressed these issues from a sociological and pedagogical perspective. The contributors to this edited collection draw on a range of social theories, including Michel Foucault and Basil Bernstein to interpret the data collected across three countries (Australia and New Zealand, United Kingdom) and from a range of primary and secondary schools. Each chapter addresses various aspects of the relationship between health imperatives as constituted in government policies, school programs and practices, their recontextualised in school practices and the impact of this on the subjectivities of children and teachers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Woodhead Fibre Series
Release date:	October 2014
First published:	2015
Editors:	Jan Wright • Valerie Harwood
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	148
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-80241-4
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Specific disorders & therapies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
LSN:	1-138-80241-7
Barcode:	9781138802414

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