Health Imperatives in Primary Schools across Three Countries: Intersections of Class, Culture and Subjectivity

Autor/inn/en	Wright, Jan; Burrows, Lisette; Rich, Emma
Titel	Health Imperatives in Primary Schools across Three Countries: Intersections of Class, Culture and Subjectivity
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 33 (2012) 5, S.673-691 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2012.696500
Schlagwörter	Obesity; Global Approach; Health Education; Body Weight; Elementary School Students; Risk; Public Policy; Intervention; Correlation; Cultural Context; Educational Environment; Health Promotion; Social Class; Discourse Analysis; Cross Cultural Studies; Australia; New Zealand; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adipositas; Globales Denken; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Körpergewicht; Risiko; Öffentliche Ordnung; Korrelation; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Diskursanalyse; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Australien; Neuseeland; Großbritannien
Abstract	In this article, we want to focus on the impact of the new health imperatives on young children attending primary schools because the evidence from both our own and others work suggests that younger and younger children are talking in very negative and disturbing ways about themselves and their bodies. We see this in a context where in the name of getting in early, governments and authorities are targeting primary schools and primary school parents and children for messages about health and weight. Just as "obesity" has become a global concern, we argue that globalisation of risk discourses and the individualisation of risk, the league table on which country is becoming the fattest have impacted on government policies, interventions, schools and children in ways which have much in common. In this article, then we argue first, that there is a problem (it is not one of children becoming fatter, but rather the way in which the ideas associated with the obesity crisis are being taken up by many children), and second, that the ways in which these ideas are taken up are not uniform across or within countries but depend on contexts: national contexts including, but not only, government policies and campaigns; and contexts within countries which vary with the social and cultural demographics of schools, in ways that are similar across countries. (As Provided).
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