Between urgent and lifelong matters
Overweight Children's Voices on Health Promotion Pedagogies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2929416 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ditte-Marie From (0000-0002-7109-7343, Roskilde University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 816-831 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2017.1408572 |
| OpenAlex | W2770662055 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
This article addresses the learner perspective on being overweight by listening to 39 Danish overweight children aged 8–13 years. In accordance with the existing critique of the ‘obesity epidemic’ and medico-scientific discourses around food and exercise, this article explores how new health imperatives shape overweight children’s self-narratives. Health pedagogical activities in Denmark are between urgent and lifelong approaches to achieving health, and the article presents overweight children’s voices on having to learn new health behaviour in between these two schisms. From a social constructionist and post-structuralist perspective, the analysis demonstrates how the children both subscribe to discourses of discipline and control over health actions, as well as legitimate narratives of having to adjust, accommodate and negotiate health challenges to everyday life practices. The article addresses what can be learnt from listening to overweight children’s voices in the context of performing meaningful health pedagogies
Health promotion · Lifelong learning · Obesity · Overweight · Pedagogy · Political science · Public health · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity and Health Practices · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · School Health and Nursing Education
Researching with Children and Young People
The Obesity Epidemic
Social Constructionism
Participant observation
Visual methodologies
Children's Participation
Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People
Research With Children
Biopolitics and the ‘obesity epidemic’
Radical education and the common school
Positioning
Health imperatives in primary schools across three countries
Beyond school boundaries
Between urgent and lifelong matters
Neither good nor useful
The medicalisation of food pedagogies in primary schools and popular culture
Emboldened bodies
Medicalization and Social Control
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |