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Body policies and body pedagogies: every child matters in totally pedagogised schools?
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posted on 2014-07-22, 09:37 authored by John Evans, Emma RichThis paper documents how health is storied into existence by ‘obesity discourse’
to become part of the ‘natural attitude’ towards the health of individuals or
populations. We draw attention to some of the major policy documentation
influencing thinking on ‘health’ and school health education in the UK over recent
years, especially, every child matters (ECM) and subsequent, related measures, for
example the National Healthy Schools Programme (NHSP). We suggest that these
measures have helped shape and make a ‘totally pedagogised society’ and ‘totally
pedagogised schools’ in which ‘health’, reduced to an issue of weight, exercise
and diet, becomes everyone’s concern, everywhere. The analyses highlight the
socio-political and psychological leanings of such policy documentation and its
potential effect on the identities of children and young people when
institutionalised and ‘authorised’ through state policies and the body pedagogies
of schools and multiple other agencies.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICYVolume
26Issue
3Pages
361 - 379 (19)Citation
EVANS, J. and RICH, E., 2011. Body policies and body pedagogies: every child matters in totally pedagogised schools? Journal of Education Policy, 26(3), pp.361-379.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
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Publication date
2011Notes
This item is closed access.ISSN
0268-0939Publisher version
Language
- en