Health Education

This text provides a socio-cultural and critical approach to health education considering whether some forms of health education do more harm than good, overly distorting perceptions of good health. The book considers healthism in education, both at a political level, and with regard to school practice, exploring what kinds of health education are useful.

Considering the Politics and Practice of Health Education Katie Fitzpatrick and Richard Tinning Part 1: The Politics of Health and Education Health Education and Health Promotion: Beyond Cells and Bells Doune Macdonald, Rebecca Johnson and Anthony Leow. If You Are Not Healthy, Then What Are You? Healthism, Colonial Disease and Body-Logic Brendan Hokowhitu. The Reproductive Citizen: Motherhood and Health Education Deborah Lupton. Schools, the State and Public Health: Some Historical and Contemporary Insights Michael Gard and Carolyn Vander-Schee. Who has Health Problems? Class, Racialization and Health Symeon Dagkas Part 2: Inventing Youth Health Issues Tau(gh)t Bodies: Student Sexual Embodiment and Schooling Louisa Allen. Young People, Alcohol and a Social Science of Risk: Bauman and the Problem of Ambivalence Peter Kelly. Social Media: Virtual Environments for Constructing Knowledge on Health and Bodies? Karen Sirna. Mediating Bio-Power: Health Education, Social Class and Subjectivity Laura De Pian, John Evans and Emma Rich. The Corporatization of Health Education Curricula: 'Part of the Solution' to Childhood Obesity? Darren Powell. Mental Health in Corporeal Times Lisette Burrows and Margaret Sinkinson Part 3: Against Healthism: Shifting Educational Practices Critical Approaches to Health Education Katie Fitzpatrick. Salutogenic Approaches to Health and the Body Mikael Quennerstedt and Marie Öhman. Getting Which Message Across? The (H)PE Teacher as Health Educator Richard Tinning. Disrupting the Field: Teacher Education in Health Education Deana Leahy and Louise McCuaig. Beyond Body Fascism: The Place for Health Education? Jan Wright.