Obesity discourse and the crisis of faith in disciplinary technology

dc.creator	Michael Gard
dc.creator	David Kirk
dc.date	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:07:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:07:17Z
dc.identifier	1102-6472
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/f553e556c6914f0bab95b3b5ab288b50
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/11102
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/f553e556c6914f0bab95b3b5ab288b50
dc.description	According to Kirk (1998) (following Foucault) a shift in corporeal power has been underway since the late 18th century in many ‘western’ countries, from an external form of power and locus of control to an internal form and locus. In light of the increased volume of discourse around the alleged obesity crisis (Gard & Wright 2005) we revisit and attempt to update Kirk’s thesis about the regulation of bodies in schools; is the widespread concern about an obesity crisis producing new ways of managing and disciplining children’s bodies? We explore in some detail a case study of curriculum development in Health and Physical Education in Ontario, Canada where we argue that the grades 1–8 syllabus trades the productive compliance and liberal individualism of previous eras for a new layering of physical education discourse and the production of cheerfully courteous and responsible individuals. We complete this analysis by asking whether this curriculum development in an era of obesity discourse signals a crisis of faith in disciplinary technology. We end by noting the need for the retention of spaces within school physical education where young people can question assumptions about corporeality.
dc.language	Swedish
dc.language	Danish
dc.language	Norwegian
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Örebro University
dc.relation	http://www.oru.se/PageFiles/15299/Kirk_Gard.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1102-6472
dc.source	Utbildning & Demokrati : Tidsskrift för Didaktik och Utbildningspolitik, Vol 16, Iss 2, Pp 17-36 (2007)
dc.subject	Physical education
dc.subject	obesity crisis
dc.subject	corporeal regulation
dc.subject	curriculum
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Obesity discourse and the crisis of faith in disciplinary technology
dc.type	Article