The medicalisation of food pedagogies in primary schools and popular culture: a case for awakening subjugated knowledges

Welch, Rosie; McMahon, Samantha; Wright, Jan

doi:10.1080/01596306.2012.696501

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“…, Welch et al . ). While these studies examine children's experiences of this growing scrutiny (Pike and Leahy ), little has been said about mothers’ experiences, especially in relation to the recent discouragement of packed lunches.…”

Section: Mothering and Classed Food Practicesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Studies documenting the growing level of scrutiny towards children's packed lunches, have shown how children from ethnic minorities and working class backgrounds can feel stigmatised by school healthy eating initiatives as their food preferences are often not in tune with them (Andersen et al 2015, Karrebaek 2012, Metcalfe et al 2011, Welch et al 2012. While these studies examine children's experiences of this growing scrutiny (Pike and Leahy 2012), little has been said about mothers' experiences, especially in relation to the recent discouragement of packed lunches.…”

Section: Mothering and Classed Food Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Unpacking the lunchbox: biopedagogies, mothering and social class

Cappellini

Harman

Parsons

2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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This study investigates how mothers respond to school surveillance of their children's packed lunches. In a context where increasing attention is focused on healthy eating, we adopt a biopedagogical approach to illustrate different positions and strategies which mothers occupy in relation to feeding their children in the school setting. We use photo-elicitation interviews and focus groups to trace both the discursive and practical significance of these biopedagogies. We find that the subjective experiences of feeding children at school are infused with classed notions of mothering in public. Our analysis highlights two broad positions. Firstly, there were those with strong distinctions between home-food and school-food, which was associated more clearly with middle class families. Secondly, there were those with more fluid boundaries between home-food and school-food. This was more commonly encapsulated by working class mothers who were seen to place more emphasis on their children as autonomous decision-makers. Overall the findings document localised and classed practices of resisting the school's normalising gaze.

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Section: Mothering and Classed Food Practicesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Mothering and Classed Food Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unpacking the lunchbox: biopedagogies, mothering and social class

Cappellini

Harman

Parsons

2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…As Rich (2012) and Welch, McMahon, and Wright (2012) suggest, these kinds of programmes, together with many health promotion websites afford young people with the resources through which they can come to understand who they are and what they should/could be. The fat, the disgusting and the sad are positions evoked for young people to take up and/or rail against.…”

Section: Critical Public Health 165mentioning

confidence: 98%

‘Doing it for themselves’: a qualitative study of children’s engagement with public health agendas in New Zealand

Burrows

McCormack

2013

Critical Public Health

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In this paper, we examine how New Zealand children engage with public health agendas that seek to shape their understandings of health. We shed light on the ways children make sense of what they see, hear and come to know through public health 'work', and consider what effects this has for how they come to think of their 'selves' and relations with others. We pay attention to the way public health messages assemble, bolstered by dispositions, behaviours and ruminations expressed in schools, families and communities. Children's talk exemplifies the sheer volume of public health missives saturating their worlds and the range of media used to reach into children's lives. In many cases, children are 'doing it for themselves' in the sense that they are attempting to enact health imperatives about healthy eating, regular exercise and weight management. However, alongside the willingness of many to simply believe and enact health information, we draw attention to the capacity of some children to think through public health messages, negotiate and make sense of them in relation to their own lives. Despite the ubiquity and mantralike quality of public health messages currently directed at children we contend they are variously interpreted and embedded in children's lives. We regard the messiness and complexity of children's engagement as affirmation that a critically informed variety of public health could provide opportunities for children to come to know health as more than simply eating the right foods and running a lot.

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“…The representation of subjects who do not live up to programme standards (i.e., those with a fixed mindset) is informed by, produces, and affirms social class (e.g., Wright and Halse 2014;Burrows 2011). These labelling practices also imply monitoring and measuring that constitute a kind of surveillant assemblage, given shape in discourses around healthy living and mediated through schools (Welch, McMahon, and Wright 2012;Wright and Halse 2014).…”

Section: Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Required alienation? The monitored self in a health promotion programme in secondary schools of three Swedish municipalities

Alstam

Forkby

2019

Pedagogy, Culture & Society

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In this article, promotion is an institutionally mediated effort to bolster or redirect a person's health, strength, and other assets to build resilience. We analyse a Swedish version of the Life in Action promotion programme used in secondary schools in three municipalities. Focusing on types of alienation as framed in the programme, we argue that Life in Action's treatment of the psyche as an object in need of conscious monitoring, nurturing, and enhancement of qualities such as positive attitude and self-discipline signals the teenage participants' required alienation. Concluding the article, we discuss how this type of alienation may already be present in participating students, and also how it may be necessary for young people about to enter work-life in the era of late capitalism.

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The medicalisation of food pedagogies in primary schools and popular culture: a case for awakening subjugated knowledges

Cited by 31 publications

References 22 publications

Unpacking the lunchbox: biopedagogies, mothering and social class

Unpacking the lunchbox: biopedagogies, mothering and social class

‘Doing it for themselves’: a qualitative study of children’s engagement with public health agendas in New Zealand

Required alienation? The monitored self in a health promotion programme in secondary schools of three Swedish municipalities

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