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Publication Date: 2014
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Health-Education Policy Interface: The Implementation of the Eat Well Be Active Policies in Schools
Leow, Anthony Chee Siong; Macdonald, Doune; Hay, Peter; McCuaig, Louise
Sport, Education and Society, v19 n8 p991-1013 2014
While grappling with their traditional core business of imbuing students with official curricular knowledge, schools have simultaneously, increasing demands to take on health promotion responsibilities. This paper examines the mandated implementation of the Eat Well Be Active (EWBA) Action Plan and its subsidiary "Smart" policies in schools in the state of Queensland, Australia. Within the context of health promotion, the interaction between the health and education policy interfaces was explored. In particular, we paid close attention to the responses of the schools and their staff to the convergence of various health policies within their institutions. Drawing on Bernstein's concept of field, this paper reports our analyses of responses within the reproduction field to the imperatives of the Smart policies. The results suggest that there exists a disjunction between the recontextualising and reproduction fields in terms of the EWBA policy intent and implementation.
Descriptors: School Policy, Health Education, Eating Habits, Nutrition, Health Promotion, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Child Health, Obesity, Program Implementation, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Physical Activity Level, Public Health, Curriculum, Program Effectiveness, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Principals, Teachers, School Personnel, Interviews, Coding, Classification, Power Structure
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Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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