"The Only Problem Is, Children Will Like Their Chips": Education and the Discursive Production of Ill-Health

Autor/inn/en	Evans, John; Evans, Bethan; Rich, Emma
Titel	"The Only Problem Is, Children Will Like Their Chips": Education and the Discursive Production of Ill-Health
Quelle	In: Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 11 (2003) 2, S.215-240 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1366
Schlagwörter	Obesity; Eating Disorders; Youth; Foreign Countries; Health Promotion; Public Health; Human Body; Body Composition; Health Behavior; Outcomes of Education; Social Influences; Cultural Influences; Child Health; Children; Adolescents; Eating Habits; United Kingdom; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adipositas; Appetite disorder; Essstörung; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Ausland; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Gesundheitswesen; Menschlicher Körper; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Sozialer Einfluss; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Essgewohnheit; Großbritannien
Abstract	On 16 January 2002, the United Kingdom House of Commons Select Committee published a report entitled "Tackling Obesity in England". Drawing on insights from the work of Bernstein, Bourdieu and Foucault, this article will suggest that the report provides an example "par excellence" of the way in which "the body" (our bodies) are being constructed, defined, regulated and pathologised by contemporary health discourse. Furthermore, the article illustrates empirically how themes dominant in this report, grounded within wider regimes of health science "truth", are reflected and reproduced in the curriculum and pedagogy of teachers (health experts), ironically in ways that potentially severely damage the health and identity of young people. To sharpen the focus of the analysis, the discussion centres attention on the relationships between formal education and eating disorders, specifically anorexia nervosa, in order to consider whether the "discourse of obesity" potentially empowers or damages young people's identity and health. (Contains 8 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10