Shaping the Child as a Healthy Child
Health Surveillance, Schools, and Biopedagogies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leanne Petherick (0000-0002-4099-317X) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 361-370 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708615611716 |
| OpenAlex | W2284639377 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 27 |
Although health surveillance in schools is not a new phenomenon, surveillance has arguably intensified in the contemporary historical moment. As individuals and professional collectivities coalesce around the concern for youth health, surveillant mechanisms proliferate within the educational context. In this article, I critically examine the 'Youth Health Survey' (YHS) administered in Manitoba (Canada), to illustrate how youth health is deployed as a mechanism for engaging inter- and intraprofessional knowledge in tightening the biopedagogical discourse surrounding youth health. In Manitoba, these biopedagogical networks and lessons arise from the body data gathered through the surveillant mechanism of the YHS resulting in the formation of public partnerships, resource sharing, and collaborative approaches to intervene in youth lives, both inside and outside the school, forming a 'surveillant assemblage' of youth health. Using qualitative data from interview and focus groups with health professionals and education specialists, I illustrate how an ever-tightening web of professional networks invested in shaping the future of youth lives connect through the development and deployment of a health surveillance tool
Context (archaeology · Geography · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Software deployment · Children's Rights and Participation · Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research · Engineering · Medicine · Nursing · School Health and Nursing Education
A discourse analysis of school girls engagement with fat pedagogy and critical health education
Gender, health and physical activity in the digital age
Young people’s uses of wearable healthy lifestyle technologies; surveillance, self-surveillance and resistance
The trouble with research-creation
One-size-fits-none’
Learning how to live well
Children's active outdoor play
The Obesity Epidemic
Foucault and Political Reason
Reducing dissonance along health–education fault lines
Truth, belief and the cultural politics of obesity scholarship and public health policy
Quantifying the body
The politics of evidence on ‘domestic terrorists’
Exploring the society–body–school nexus
Competing obesity discourses and critical challenges for health and physical educators
Philosophies, Ideologies and the Practice of Physical Education
Obesity assemblages and surveillance in schools
Health surveillance, the body and schooling
Body policies and body pedagogies
Neoliberal restructuring, limited autonomy, and relational distance in Manitoba’s nonprofit field
Understanding policy
The Foucault Effect
The surveillant assemblage
Health imperatives in primary schools across three countries
Beyond school boundaries
| Citations per year | 0.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |