Fruit, vegetables, fatness, and Foucault

Governing students and their families through school health policy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11488264
AutoresCarolyn Vander Schee (Northern Illinois University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen24
Número5
Páginas557-574
Fecha de publicación2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Education Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0268-0939 • E-ISSN: 1464-5106
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02680930902823047
OpenAlexW1994537603
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas41

In an era of curricular accountability where everything from reading and math scores to body fat are events to be assembled, scrutinized, and standardized, the health‐conscious school plays an ever‐important role in community and the nation (or so we are told). This qualitative study analyzes interviews with school leaders in their role in creating educational policies that encourage students and their families to make health a priority. Theoretically, the work draws on the work of Foucault, specifically his writings on the governance of society and the self. The analysis reveals the ways in which notions of good health and how this should be achieved became, at this school, a basis for social evaluation and control. In performing this analysis I seek to problematize the enactment of school health policy as ideologically neutral, necessarily liberating, and inherently benevolent

Accountability · Corporate governance · Ideology · Management · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Qualitative research · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Physical Education and Pedagogy