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'You Can Tell Kind of about the Body': Young Children, Health, Fitness and Fatness
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Pugmire, Ria; Lyons, Antonia C. – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
Fears of an 'obesity epidemic' in New Zealand and elsewhere have led to a growing focus on children's weight, diet and activities. The aim of this research project was to highlight children's voices, stepping back from obesity interventions to explore how health and obesity discourses are taken up by young primary school children. Nine 6 and…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Body Composition, Human Body, Obesity
Governing the (Un)Healthy Child-Consumer in the Age of the Childhood Obesity Crisis
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Powell, Darren – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
In recent years, multinational food and drink corporations and their marketing practices have been blamed for the global childhood obesity 'crisis'. Unsurprisingly, these corporations have been quick to refute these claims and now position themselves as 'part of the solution' to childhood obesity. In this paper, I examine how and why corporations…
Descriptors: Obesity, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Marketing
Critical Health Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Fitzpatrick, Katie; Burrows, Lisette – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
Health education in Aotearoa New Zealand is an enigma. Premised on ostensibly open and holistic philosophical premises, the school curriculum not only permits, but in some ways prescribes, pedagogies and teacher dispositions that engage with the diversity of young people at its centre. A capacity, to not only understand contemporary health…
Descriptors: Health Education, Course Descriptions, Criticism, Sociocultural Patterns
Physical Education Teacher Educators' Views Regarding the Purpose(s) of School Physical Education
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McEvoy, Eileen; Heikinaro-Johansson, Pilvikki; MacPhail, Ann – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
The aim of this paper was to gain an understanding of the views of a group of physical education teacher educators on the purpose(s) of school physical education and whether, how and why these views have changed over time. Semi-structured individual interviews were carried out with thirteen physical education teacher educators; a fourteenth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes
"Getting Fit Basically Just Means, Like, Nonfat": Children's Lessons in Fitness and Fatness
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Powell, Darren; Fitzpatrick, Katie – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
Current concerns about a childhood obesity crisis and children's physical activity levels have combined to justify fitness lessons as a physical education practice in New Zealand primary (elementary) schools. Researchers focused on children's understandings of fitness lessons argue that they construct fitness as a quest for an "ideal"…
Descriptors: Obesity, Child Health, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
"Kiwi Kids Are Weet-Bix[TM] Kids"--Body Matters in Childhood
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Burrows, Lisette – Sport, Education and Society, 2010
A wide array of health policies and initiatives have emerged in New Zealand recently in an attempt to resurrect a presumed "lost", adventure-loving, physically capable and non-obese Kiwi kid. Chief among these is "Mission-On"--a 67 million dollar package of 10 initiatives designed to explicitly target the eating and exercise…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Health, Obesity, Health Promotion