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Wright, Jan; Burrows, Lisette; Rich, Emma – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
In this article, we want to focus on the impact of the new health imperatives on young children attending primary schools because the evidence from both our own and others work suggests that younger and younger children are talking in very negative and disturbing ways about themselves and their bodies. We see this in a context where in the name of…
Descriptors: Obesity, Global Approach, Health Education, Body Weight
Evans, John; Rich, Emma; Davies, Brian; Allwood, Rachel – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2005
Despite burgeoning interests in "the body" as a topic of sociological interest and analysis in recent decades, with few notable exceptions, the sociology of education has not taken as seriously as it might how "embodied subjectivities" both shape and are framed by contexts of teaching and learning. There are processes of formal…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Obesity, Educational Sociology, Eating Disorders
Evans, John; Rich, Emma; Davies, Brian – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2004
This article discusses the social fabrication of risk and ill health in the United Kingdom and how it affect the physical education curriculum and physical education teachers. It is now well over 60 years since the publication in Britain of the Board of Education?s (1933) "Syllabus For Physical Training For Schools." It was a remarkable…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Physical Education Teachers, Physical Fitness