| Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health Contributor(s): Evans, John (Editor), Davies, Brian (Editor), Wright, Jan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415306450 ISBN-13: 9780415306454 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $68.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: This agenda setting critical analysis brings together leading contemporary scholars in the sociology of education, physical education, and sport from around the world, and offers a range of views on the relationships between education, physical culture, identity, and health as well as on key questions concerning the social, cultural, and political significance of PE and sport in schools. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Sports & Recreation |
| Dewey: 306.483 |
| LCCN: 2003046988 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.85 lbs) 270 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and healthiness. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin. But how are current social trends and attitudes towards the body reflected in the curriculum of schools, in the teaching of Physical Education and Health? How do teachers and health professionals influence young people's experiences of their own and others' bodies? Is health education liberating or merely another form of regulation and social control? 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 interests that promote narrow body-centred ways of thinking. Includes:* A critical history of notions of body, identity and health in schools. |
