'Thrash yourself Thursday': The production of the 'healthy' child through a fitness-based PE practice

Sport, Education and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 405-429

  McDermott, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

'(In)activity'; Biopedagogy; Children; Daily physical activity; Fitness based exercise; Governmentality; Physical education; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860812200     PISSN: 13573322     EISSN: 14701243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2011.608942     Document Type: Article

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