John Evans, Brian Davies, Jan Wright
Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and healthiness. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin. But how are current social trends and attitudes towards the body reflected in the curriculum of schools, in the teaching of Physical Education and Health? How do teachers and health professionals influence young people's experiences of their own and others' bodies? Is health education liberating or merely another form of regulation and social control?
Drawing together some of the latest research on the body and schooling, Body Knowledge and Control offers a sharp and challenging critique of (post) modern-day attitudes toward obesity, health, childhood and the mainstream science and business interests that promote narrow body-centred ways of thinking. Includes:
* A critical history of notions of body, identity and health in schools.
* Analysis of the 'obesity epidemic', eating disorders
* Analysis of the influence of nurtured body image in racism, sexism, homophobia and body elitism in schools.
Preface, List of contributors, Foreword, Educating bodies: schooling and the constitution of society, Acknowledgements, PART I Introduction: pedagogy, culture and identity, PART II The social context of physical education and health, PART III Schooling the body: pedagogies of identity, PART IV Future directions: research and development in PEH, Index
Drawing together some of the latest research on the body and schooling, Body Knowledge and Control offers a sharp and challenging critique of modern day attitudes toward obesity, health, appearance and self-image.
This text looks at how contemporary societies are besotted with the "body", its size, shape and "health", and how governments, business and the popular media spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin.
Über den Autor
John Evans, Brian Davies, Jan Wright
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface, List of contributors, Foreword, Educating bodies: schooling and the constitution of society, Acknowledgements, PART I Introduction: pedagogy, culture and identity, PART II The social context of physical education and health, PART III Schooling the body: pedagogies of identity, PART IV Future directions: research and development in PEH, Index
Klappentext
This agenda setting critical analysis brings together leading contemporary scholars in the sociology of education, physical education, and sport from around the world, and offers a range of views on the relationships between education, physical culture, identity, and health as well as on key questions concerning the social, cultural, and political significance of PE and sport in schools.
