Female Elementary Teachers’ Biopedagogical Practices: How Health Discourse Circulates in Newfoundland Elementary Schools
Epidemiological data construct the population of Newfoundland and Labrador as being one of the most obese populations in Canada. The concern for child and youth health is particularly pertinent within school culture and places teachers in precarious positions where they are being asked to share in s...
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ftjcje:oai:cje.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org:article/1428 2023-05-15T17:21:07+02:00 Female Elementary Teachers’ Biopedagogical Practices: How Health Discourse Circulates in Newfoundland Elementary Schools Petherick, LeAnne Beausoleil, Natalie 2015-02-16 application/pdf https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/1428 eng eng Canadian Society for the Study of Education / Société canadienne pour l'étude de l'éducation https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/1428/1751 https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/1428 Copyright (c) 2018 Canadian Society for the Study of Education Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation; Vol. 38 No. 1 (2015); 1-29 Revue canadienne de l'éducation; Vol. 38 No. 1 (2015); 1-29 1918-5979 0380-2361 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2015 ftjcje 2022-07-03T15:27:15Z Epidemiological data construct the population of Newfoundland and Labrador as being one of the most obese populations in Canada. The concern for child and youth health is particularly pertinent within school culture and places teachers in precarious positions where they are being asked to share in shaping healthy lifestyle messages while also considering their own health practices. Based on interviews with 13 female elementary school teachers, we explore the ways in which dominant health messages are taken up but also challenged by teachers within school culture. A thematic analysis of teachers’ narratives highlights the moral values used in the promotion of eating and exercising in school staff rooms, the gendered and sometimes romanticized view of the past as a method for communicating contemporary health concerns, the struggle to challenge dominant health discourses, and finally, the tensions that arise for people when thinking more complexly about health and healthy living. Teachers’ concern for biopedagogical practice demonstrates how they continuously challenge but also participate in the production of the health imperative. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Canadian Journal of Education (CJE) Canada Newfoundland |
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Epidemiological data construct the population of Newfoundland and Labrador as being one of the most obese populations in Canada. The concern for child and youth health is particularly pertinent within school culture and places teachers in precarious positions where they are being asked to share in shaping healthy lifestyle messages while also considering their own health practices. Based on interviews with 13 female elementary school teachers, we explore the ways in which dominant health messages are taken up but also challenged by teachers within school culture. A thematic analysis of teachers’ narratives highlights the moral values used in the promotion of eating and exercising in school staff rooms, the gendered and sometimes romanticized view of the past as a method for communicating contemporary health concerns, the struggle to challenge dominant health discourses, and finally, the tensions that arise for people when thinking more complexly about health and healthy living. Teachers’ concern for biopedagogical practice demonstrates how they continuously challenge but also participate in the production of the health imperative. |
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Female Elementary Teachers’ Biopedagogical Practices: How Health Discourse Circulates in Newfoundland Elementary Schools |
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Female Elementary Teachers’ Biopedagogical Practices: How Health Discourse Circulates in Newfoundland Elementary Schools |
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female elementary teachers’ biopedagogical practices: how health discourse circulates in newfoundland elementary schools |
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Canadian Society for the Study of Education / Société canadienne pour l'étude de l'éducation |
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Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation; Vol. 38 No. 1 (2015); 1-29 Revue canadienne de l'éducation; Vol. 38 No. 1 (2015); 1-29 1918-5979 0380-2361 |
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