Managing Uncertainty: Obesity Discourse and Physical Education in a Risk Society.

Gard, Michael; Wright, Jan

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ERIC Number: EJ639676

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2001

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Managing Uncertainty: Obesity Discourse and Physical Education in a Risk Society.

Gard, Michael; Wright, Jan

Studies in Philosophy and Education, v20 n6 p535-549 Nov 2001

Examines how certainty about children, obesity, exercise, and health is produced in the context of 'expert' knowledge and recontextualized in the academic and professional physical education literature. Argues that the unquestioning acceptance of the obesity discourses in physical education helps to construct anxieties about the body, which are detrimental to students. (Contains 44 references.) (NB)

Descriptors: Body Composition, Body Image, Body Weight, Health Education, Higher Education, Human Body, Kinesthetic Perception, Obesity, Physical Education, Physical Health, Self Concept, Social Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue, "Philosophy and Physical Education: Exploring Body-Narratives."