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A balancing act - problematising prescriptions about food and weight in school health texts

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dc.creator Jan Wright
dc.creator Rebecca Dean
dc.date 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:10:16Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:10:16Z
dc.identifier 1102-6472
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/e5f180e4d16b4a8f985587f027b34812
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/13500
dc.description School health syllabuses, health and physical education textbooks andmost recently website resources targeting young people’s health are one of the main sources of knowledge in schools about how individuals should live their lives and come to know themselves and others, particularly as these relate to their bodies, their relationships and their daily practices of eating, drinking and engaging in physical activity. One of the most powerful and pervasive discourses currently influencing ways of thinking about health and about bodies is that associated with the notion of an ‘obesity epidemic’. In this paper, we use the notion of biopower as it draws on the ‘truths’ and imperatives of the ‘obesity epidemic’ to examine, in an Australian context, how the practices associated with health education via texts books and web-based resources contribute to the regulation of bodies and the constitution of particular desires around health.
dc.language Swedish
dc.language Danish
dc.language Norwegian
dc.language English
dc.publisher Örebro University
dc.relation http://www.oru.se/PageFiles/15299/Wright_Dean.pdf
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1102-6472
dc.source Utbildning & Demokrati : Tidsskrift för Didaktik och Utbildningspolitik, Vol 16, Iss 2, Pp 75-94 (2007)
dc.subject body
dc.subject health education
dc.subject biopower
dc.subject obesity epidemic
dc.subject textbooks
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title A balancing act - problematising prescriptions about food and weight in school health texts
dc.type article


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