Competing obesity discourses and critical challenges for health and physical educators

Sport, Education and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-161

  Pringle, Richard ^a   Pringle, Dixie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Independent scholar ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Critical pedagogy; Foucauldian theorising; Health education; Obesity; Physical education; Socio critical curriculum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859379893     PISSN: 13573322     EISSN: 14701243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2011.607947     Document Type: Article

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