Health, (body) image, and primary schooling: 'Why do they have to be a certain weight?'

Sport, Education and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 431-449

  Humberstone, Barbara ^a   Stan, Ina ^a  

^a BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NEW UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bio pedagogies; Body image; Ethnography; Primary schooling; Teacher's and parent's perspectives; Well being and outdoor pedagogies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960683759     PISSN: 13573322     EISSN: 14701243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2011.589641     Document Type: Article

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