Moral subjects, healthy adolescents
Analyzing the discourse of health education in Greek secondary education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12730208 |
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| Authors | Michael Christodoulou, Michael S Christodoulou (0000-0002-5098-3143, University of Patras, corresponding author), Pandelis Kiprianos (0000-0003-4186-3542, University of Patras) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 309-327 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Theory & Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-8211 • E-ISSN: 1477-822X |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1057/sth.2012.3 |
| OpenAlex | W1994113964 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
In this article, our aim is to put forward a sociological analysis of the educational policy on health education in Greece. Drawing on the Foucauldian notion of self-techniques, this article highlights how moral subjects are formed within the Discourse of Health Education. Analyzing all the health education texts that the Ministry of Education addresses to pupils and teachers in secondary education, we try (i) to explore all the main statements that compose the semantic space of health education within which such terms as ‘communicative competence’, ‘life-skills’ or ‘active listening’ take on their meaning and delimit the ways in which teacher and pupils are to view each other and (ii) to capture the ways through which these statements not only represent the moral claims of health education but also entail a set of techniques the adolescents are called to implement in order to become health-conscious and to avoid unhealthy behaviors. Finally, we show how these self-techniques become relevant in relation to the ritual rules of the experiential education within which adolescents are called to adopt healthy lifestyles
Active listening · Christian ministry · Competence (human resources · Epistemology · Experiential knowledge · Health education · Meaning (existential · Moral education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public health · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · School Health and Nursing Education · Social Psychology
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Resources for attitudinal meaning
Foucault, Health and Medicine
Analysing Discourse
Archaeology of Knowledge
More than a woolly jumper
Sex education as social control
Risk Ritual and the Management of Control and Anxiety in Medical Culture
Body Work
Beyond medicalisation-demedicalisation
Protecting a vulnerable margin
The rise of surveillance medicine
| Highly cited | No |
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