Social Theory and Health Education: Forging New Insights in Research by Deana Le

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Social Theory, Health and Education brings together major new work in health and education that utilises social theory and provides students and established scholars with examples of how to apply these theories to their research and teaching.

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Social Theory and Health Education brings together health education scholarship with a diverse range of social theories to demonstrate the value and impact of their application to associated health and education contexts.For the first time, this book draws together cutting-edge research that demonstrates the productive and impactful ways social theory can be applied to the diversity of research in this field. Topics covered include digital health, health education in sexuality, gender and health, food and nutrition, mental health and wellbeing, environment, and alcohol and drug use. In exploring these topics, each author utilises different theorists and concepts to compellingly demonstrate their application to a range of health education research contexts.This collection provides examples for both students, early career and established scholars that showcase ways that social theory can be utilised in empirical and theoretical research. The collection also highlights how health education scholarship can be enhanced by engaging with social theory. It also explores the viability of various theories for work in this field, and their potential to generate new approaches for research.

Author Biography

Deana Leahy is a Senior Lecturer in Health Education in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Her research draws from interdisciplinary perspectives to critically engage with questions related to the politics and practices of health education, in schools and beyond.Katie Fitzpatrick is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. Her research and teaching are focused on health education and physical education, as well as critical ethnographic and poetic research methods. Jan Wright is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong. Her research draws on feminist and poststructuralist theory to critically engage issues associated with the relationship between embodiment, culture and health.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and BoxesList of ContributorsChapter 1: Why Do We Need Social Theory in Health Education? Deana Leahy, Katie Fitzpatrick and Jan WrightChapter 2: Working with Social Theory in Health Education Mary Lou RasmussenChapter 3: Biopedagogies and Family Life: A Social Class Perspective Lisette Burrows and Jan Wright Chapter 4: The Ontological Politics of Partying: Drug Education, Young Men and Drug Consumption Adrian FarrugiaChapter 5: Using Bourdieu To Understand Health and Education Katie FitzpatrickChapter 6: Poststructuralist and New-Materialist Approaches to Analyses of Bullying Among Children Nina Hein and Dorte Marie SøndergaardChapter 7: Vital Materialism and The Thing-Power of Lively Digital Data Deborah LuptonChapter 8: Assembling Affects: A Deleuzo-Guattarian Approach to School Drug Education Peta Malins and Nicholas KentChapter 9: Critical Policy Studies and Historical Sociology of Concepts: Wellbeing and Mindfulness in Education Julie Mcleod and Katie WrightChapter 10: 'School Refusal': What is the Problem Represented to Be? A Critical Analysis Using Carol Bacchi's Questioning Approach Catriona O'Toole and Roisin DevenneyChapter 11: Health Education Policy and Curriculum: Bernsteinian Perspectives and A Whole New Ball Game Dawn PenneyChapter 12: Navigating Health Knowledge: Postcolonialism And Ethnic Minority Girls' Experiences of Health Education in School Contexts Leanne Petherick And Moss E. NormanChapter 13: Governmentality, School Nutrition and The International Practice of Governing Health Behaviours Darren Powell and Carolyn PluimChapter 14: 'Deleuze For Goodness Sake': Examining Health Inequities Via Assemblage Theorising Richard PringleChapter 15: Re/Doing Sexuality Education Research as A Rhizomatic Pedagogical Encounter and Its Educational Implications Kathleen QuinlivanChapter 16: Education as Products and Productions of Norms Eva Reimers Chapter 17: Digital Health Technologies, Body Pedagogies and Material-Discursive Relations of Young People's Learning About Health Emma Rich, Sarah Lewis and Andy Miah Chapter 18: Putting Foucauldian Ethics to Work in Critical Health Education Karen Shelley and Louise MccuaigChapter 19: Engaging with Normativity in Health Education Research: Inspiration from Continental Critical Theory Venka Simovska, Nis Langer Primdahl and Anders Skriver JensenChapter 20: Destroying the Family and Civilization: Marxism, Safe Schools and Sexuality Education Roz WardChapter 21: Beyond Carrot Sticks and Sermons: The Practice of Education in Obesity Interventions Megan WarinChapter 22: Public Health Pedagogy and Technology as a Mode of Existence Benjamin Williams and Jessica Le

Details ISBN1138485756 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Critical Studies in Health and Education Year 2020 ISBN-10 1138485756 ISBN-13 9781138485754 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Subtitle Forging New Insights in Research Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Jan Wright Affiliation University of Auckland, New Zealand Birth 1975 DEWEY 613.071 Pages 270 Short Title Social Theory and Health Education Language English UK Release Date 2020-04-07 Publication Date 2020-04-07 AU Release Date 2020-04-07 NZ Release Date 2020-04-07 Author Jan Wright Illustrations 4 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white Alternative 9781138485730 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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