Andrew Horrell

Biographic Data

ID764517
NAMEAndrew Horrell
GIVEN NAMESAndrew
FAMILY NAMEHorrell
SIGNATUREHORRELL A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0002-4497-3336
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Policy making and curriculum change

    Open AccessAndrew Horrell, Xuan MengARTICLEEuropean Physical Education Review2026

    In response to a national vision and the global demands for more future-oriented education systems, China launched a new round of curriculum reform in 2022. This paper examines how China, which has the world's largest public education system, seeks to enhance health outcomes through competence-based curriculum reform. The reform of physical education (PE) focuses on the integrated development of motor ability, healthy behaviour, and sports morali…

  • Health first, safety first

    Open AccessXuan Meng, Andrew Horrell et al.ARTICLESport Education and Society2025References: 27

    Nation-states have concerns about the health and wellbeing of their citizens and these concerns have directly or indirectly influenced educational reform and curriculum development.In 2000, China issued a directive of 'Health First' which applied to all elements of the education system.In its scale and scope, this represented a significant and far-reaching reform, ushering in a period where school leaders and teachers were expected to engage with…

  • Health First’ and curriculum reform in China

    Open AccessXuan Meng, Andrew Horrell et al.ARTICLEEuropean Physical Education Review2020Cited by: 4References: 5

    Globally, nation states have concerns about health, and this has led to a proliferation of initiatives and policies, which either have a direct or indirect influence on education in schools. This article focuses specifically on how China, with the largest public education system in the world, has sought to transform the health of the nation through national curriculum reform informed by policies from other nations, which has significant implicati…

  • I want to look like that

    Open AccessSarah Johnson, Shirley Gray et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Studies in the Cultural…2013Cited by: 3References: 34

    Teachers and pupils are increasingly inundated with power laden ‘truths’ regarding health and the body as they attempt to construct their subjectivities. Drawing on insights from the works of Foucault, namely technologies of power and technologies of the self, this study investigated how healthism and ideal body discourses were (re)produced, negotiated, taken up and resisted by pupils and Physical Education (PE) teachers in one Scottish secondary…

  • Grand designs! analysing the conceptual tensions associated with new physical education and health and well-being curriculum

    Malcolm Thorburn, Andrew HorrellARTICLESport Education and Society2012References: 5

    The positioning of physical education in the school curriculum continues to reflect external discourses circulating in political and social milieu. As increasing austerity measures influence and restrict educational priorities, we consider that there is an urgent need for physical educationalists to articulate a rationale for an educational contribution which is worthy of investment and which avoids the pitfalls of conceptual ambiguity and/or rel…

  • Health and wellbeing

    Andrew Horrell, John Sproule et al.ARTICLESport Education and Society2011Cited by: 2References: 10

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