ISBN:
9780415306454
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (271 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Body Knowledge and Control : Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; List of contributors; Educating bodies: schooling and the constitution of society; Acknowledgements; Introduction: pedagogy, culture and identity; Pedagogy, symbolic control, identity and health; Post-structural methodologies: the body, schooling and health; The social context of physical education and health; Sociology, the body and health in a risk society; Towards a critical history of the body, identity and health: corporeal power and school practice; An elephant in the room and a bridge too far, or physical education and the 'obesity epidemic'
Description / Table of Contents:
The discursive production of childhood, identity and healthThe body and health in policy: representations and recontextualisation; Schooling the body: pedagogies of identity; 'The Beauty Walk': interrogating whiteness as the norm for beauty within one school's hidden curriculum; Health and physical education and the production of the 'at risk self'; Gendered bodies and physical identities; From performance to impairment: a patchwork of embodied memories; 'Hungry to be noticed': young women, anorexia and schooling; Threatening space: (physical) education and homophobic body work
Description / Table of Contents:
Future directions: research and development in PEHEndnote: the embodiment of consciousness: Bernstein, health and schooling; Conclusion: ruminations on body knowledge and control and the spaces for hope and happening; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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