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Cultivating 'Health' in the School Garden
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Taylor, Nicole; Wright, Jan; O'Flynn, Gabrielle – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
There has been a recent surge in the popularity of school gardening programmes with different models claiming to address learning outcomes within the curriculum. For example, the 'kitchen garden' concept has had a rapid uptake across many Australian schools, promoted by both government curriculum support documents, and private organisations.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Gardening, Elementary Secondary Education
Governing Food Choices: A Critical Analysis of School Food Pedagogies and Young People's Responses in Contemporary Times
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Leahy, Deana; Wright, Jan – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2016
Recently a proliferation and intensification of school programmes that are directed towards teaching children and young people about food has been witnessed. Whilst there is much to learn about food, anxieties concerning the obesity epidemic have dramatically shaped how schools address the topic. This article draws on governmentality to consider…
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition Instruction, Obesity, Health Promotion
Gender and Evolutionary Theory in Workplace Health Promotion
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Björklund, Erika; Wright, Jan – Health Education Journal, 2017
Objective: Ideas from evolutionary theories are increasingly taken up in health promotion. This article seeks to demonstrate how such a trend has the potential to embed essentialist and limiting stereotypes of women and men in health promotion practice. Design: We draw on material gathered for a larger ethnographic study that examined how…
Descriptors: Evolution, Gender Differences, Health Promotion, Workplace Learning
A Critical "Critical Inquiry" Proposition in Health and Physical Education
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Leahy, Deana; O'Flynn, Gabrielle; Wright, Jan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2013
A critical inquiry approach is one of five key characteristics that have shaped the development of the new Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (AC: HPE). However, what this means is open to interpretation. In the various documents leading to the consultation draft AC: HPE and in this document itself, critical inquiry is used in…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Health Education, Physical Education, Foreign Countries
Shepherds in the Gym: Employing a Pastoral Power Analytic on Caring Teaching in HPE
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McCuaig, Louise; Öhman, Marie; Wright, Jan – Sport, Education and Society, 2013
Drawing on research conducted in Australian Health' and Physical Education (HPE) and Swedish Physical Education and Health (PEH), this paper demonstrates the analytic possibilities of Foucault's notion of pastoral power to reveal the moral and ethical work conducted by HPE/PEH teachers in producing healthy active citizens. We use the pastoral…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Physical Education Teachers
Dosing up on Food and Physical Activity: New Zealand Children's Ideas about "Health"
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Burrows, Lisette; Wright, Jan; McCormack, Jaleh – Health Education Journal, 2009
Objective: To investigate New Zealand children's understandings of "health". Design: Secondary analysis of student responses to a task called "Being Healthy" in New Zealand's National Education Monitoring Project. Setting: Year 4 (8-9 year-old) and Year 8 (12-13 year-old) students who took part in New Zealand's National…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level
"Being Healthy": The Discursive Construction of Health in New Zealand Children's Responses to the National Education Monitoring Project
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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