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Body pedagogies, P/policy, health and gender
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posted on 2014-07-22, 10:21 authored by John Evans, Emma Rich, Rachel Allwood, Brian DaviesSchools within a ‘knowledge economy’ nurture and endorse particular ‘corporeal orientations’,
that is to say, ascribe value, meaning and potential to ‘the body’ (particular bodies) in time, place
and space. Such processes reflect wider (national and global) socio-economic trends. In
contemporary culture, these processes increasingly celebrate particular virtues—‘flexible identities’,
the manifest aspects of ‘performance’ and ‘corporeal perfection’ (usually defined as ‘the
slender ideal’). Calling on the voices of a number of young women (aged 11–18) the article
illustrates how these processes can intersect to seriously damage some people’s health, perhaps
especially those of young women and girls. The analyses suggest that the expectations of a
‘knowledge economy’ relating to the body and health enter the school system through two forms of
P/policy: ‘formal’, state-sanctioned, usually legislated education Policy; and ‘informal’, mainly
medical and health institution-based, state ‘approved’ but non-legislated, pseudo policy initiatives
often merely reflecting expectations and pressures laundered through the popular media.
Together, these P/policies define not only formal education but increasingly encode other aspects
of school life, in effect, making ‘pedagogy’ everyone’s concern, everywhere. The article highlights
the relentless and inescapable nature of pedagogical activity in the Totally Pedagogised Micro
Societies (TPMS) which schools have become.
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BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNALVolume
34Issue
3Pages
387 - 402 (16)Citation
EVANS, J. ... et al, 2008. Body pedagogies, P/policy, health and gender. British Educational Research Journal, 34(3), pp.387-402.Publisher
Taylor & Francis (© British Educational Research Association)Version
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Publication date
2008Notes
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0141-1926Publisher version
Language
- en