dc.contributor.author |
Pringle, Richard |
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dc.contributor.author |
Pringle, D |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-12-15T01:53:37Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2012 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Sport, Education and Society, 2012, 17 (2), pp. 143 - 162 (19) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1357-3322 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/27766 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Health and physical education teachers have become subject to epistemological and ethical tensions associated with competing obesity and physical activity discourses. The dominating obesity discourse, underpinned by truth claims from science, encourages educators to pathologise fatness, treat exercise as a medicine and survey student activity levels. A reverse obesity discourse, however, argues that obesity concerns are socially constructed in response to a moral panic surrounding youth lifestyles and these concerns are, of themselves, harmful for health. Educators, accordingly, are drawn in different directions with respect to how to manage their governance role of student bodies and the dissemination of health and physical activity knowledge. In this paper, we discuss this dilemma and draw from Foucauldian and Derridian theorising to offer one potential educational strategy. This strategy rests on the idea that knowledge is not fixed but fluid and, therefore, critical education is less about the transmission of knowledge and more about equipping students with skills so that they can critically engage with uncertainty and negotiate the complexities of social life. |
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dc.description.uri |
http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ960415 |
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dc.language |
English |
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dc.publisher |
Routledge / Taylor & Francis |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Sport, Education and Society |
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dc.rights |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.subject |
Obesity |
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dc.subject |
Physical education |
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dc.subject |
Health education |
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dc.subject |
Critical pedagogy |
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dc.subject |
Socio-critical curriculum |
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dc.subject |
Foucauldian theorising |
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dc.title |
Competing obesity discourses and critical challenges for health and physical educators |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1080/13573322.2011.607947 |
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pubs.issue |
2 |
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pubs.begin-page |
143 |
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pubs.volume |
17 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright:
Routledge / Taylor & Francis |
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pubs.author-url |
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13573322.2011.607947 |
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pubs.end-page |
162 |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
240844 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
1470-1243 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2011-11-17 |
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