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Direct linkWright, 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
Wright, Jan; Burrows, Lisette – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
In this paper we examine the discursive resources that year 4 and year 8 students draw on to construct meanings for health. Drawing on students' responses to tasks in the New Zealand National Monitoring Project (Crooks & Flockton, "Health & Physical Education", University of Otago Educational Assessment Research Unit, 1999) we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Grade 3, Grade 7
