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Cliff, Ken; Wright, Jan – Sport, Education and Society, 2010
We suggest that recent concerns about young people's excess body weight have generally been treated quite separately to longer standing concerns about young people (particularly, young women) and eating disorders. The few papers that have addressed this connection directly have focused on how practices motivated by the obesity discourse have had…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Physical Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Private Schools
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Yager, Zali; O'Dea, Jennifer – Health Education Research, 2009
The aim was to investigate and compare body image, body dissatisfaction, dieting, disordered eating, exercise and eating disorders among trainee health education/physical education (H&PE) and non-H&PE teachers. Participants were 502 trainee teachers randomly selected from class groups at three Australian universities who completed the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Obesity, Health Education, Physical Activities