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Competing obesity discourses and critical challenges for health and physical educators

Richard Pringle Critical Studies in Education, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New ZealandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Dixie Pringle Independent scholar
Pages 143-161 | Published online: 22 Aug 2011

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Sondre Arntzen Lomsdal, Idar Kristian Lyngstad & Pål Arild Lagestad. (2023) Qualification, socialization, and subjectification: a discussion of the purpose of daily physically active learning through the lens of secondary school teachers. Sport, Education and Society 28:8, pages 943-957.
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Gustavo González-Calvo, Alfonso García-Monge, Göran Gerdin & Richard Pringle. (2023) Making the familiar strange: a narrative about Spanish children’s experiences of physical (in)activity to reconsider the ability of physical education to produce healthy citizens. Sport, Education and Society 28:3, pages 227-238.
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Mikael Quennerstedt, Dean Barker, Anna Johansson & Peter Korp. (2021) The relation between teaching physical education and discourses on body weight – an integrative review of research. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education 12:3, pages 287-305.
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Gavin Ward & David Scott. (2021) Negotiating the Daily Mile Challenge; looking-like a walking break from the classroom. Sport, Education and Society 26:2, pages 119-134.
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Emma Rich, Lee F. Monaghan & Andrea E. Bombak. (2020) A discourse analysis of school girls engagement with fat pedagogy and critical health education: rethinking the childhood ‘obesity scandal’. Sport, Education and Society 25:2, pages 127-142.
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Ian Wellard & Michelle Secker. (2017) ‘Visions’ for children's health and wellbeing: exploring the complex and arbitrary processes of putting theory into practice. Sport, Education and Society 22:5, pages 586-601.
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Reidar Säfvenbom, Robert Buch & Anders Aandstad. (2017) Eagerness for Physical Activity Scale: Theoretical background and validation. Applied Developmental Science 21:3, pages 184-199.
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Joe Piggin & Alan Bairner. (2016) The global physical inactivity pandemic: an analysis of knowledge production. Sport, Education and Society 21:2, pages 131-147.
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Kathleen Armour & Jo Harris. (2013) Making the Case for Developing New PE-for-Health Pedagogies. Quest 65:2, pages 201-219.
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Peter Korp, Mikael Quennerstedt, Dean Barker & Anna Johansson. (2023) Making sense of health in PE: conceptions of health among Swedish physical education teachers. Health Education 123:2, pages 79-92.
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Dean Barker, Mikael Quennerstedt, Anna Johansson & Peter Korp. (2021) Physical Education Teachers and Competing Obesity Discourses: An Examination of Emerging Professional Identities. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 40:4, pages 642-651.
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Rachael Dixon, Gillian Abel & Lisette Burrows. (2021) Putting assemblage to work to explore pedagogical practices in health education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health Education 121:2, pages 174-188.
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Valeria Varea & Mair Underwood. (2016) ‘You are just an idiot for not doing any physical activity right now’. European Physical Education Review 22:4, pages 465-478.
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Natalie Beausoleil & LeAnne Petherick. (2015) Taking Up the Vitality Message. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 15:5, pages 407-416.
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LeAnne Petherick. (2015) Shaping the Child as a Healthy Child. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 15:5, pages 361-370.
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