Get moving! A comparison of ideas about body, health and physical activity in materials produced for health education in the Danish Primary School
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12572950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annemari Munk Svendsen (0000-0002-6445-2220, ,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1014-1033 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sport Education and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-3322 • E-ISSN: 1470-1243 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13573322.2012.735651 |
| OpenAlex | W2031916341 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 22 |
In the debate over health, one political message has become more and more dominant in western societies over the past decade: Get moving! The logic seems to be that physical activity per se equals better health and that the more physical activity, the better one's health. This logic has, among other things, induced an increased political focus on educational settings and physical education (PE) as a central place for promoting health by increasing physical activity. Today PE is often explicitly identified with health in contemporary school curricula, and this means that PE teachers unavoidably encounter contemporary perceptions of health and physical activity in their professional practice. Taking as its starting point four different teaching resources produced for health education in the Danish Primary School, this article presents four different health cultures and their recommendations for physical activity as a health-promoting practice. The aim is to challenge current perceptions of health and the related recommendations for physical activity in providing a springboard for health communicators and PE teachers to reflect on the health cultures they encounter and maybe to consider how these aligns their own preferred health culture
Alternative medicine · Curriculum · Danish · Health education · Health promotion · Pedagogy · Perception · Physical activity · Physical culture · Physical education · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · Sociology · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Medicine · Nursing · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Psychology · School Health and Nursing Education · Health Policy
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |