ABSTRACT
This collection brings together cutting-edge research on the history of embodiment, health and schooling in an international context. The book distinguishes a set of educational technologies, schooling practices and school-based public health programmes that organise and influence the bodies of children and young people, defining the curriculum of the body.
Taking a historical approach, with a focus on the period in which mass schooling became an international phenomenon, the book is organised according to four major themes. The first positions the school as a modern clinical space, followed by the second that explores programmes and curricula which influence the discipline of and care for the body. The third section examines the role of the built environment on the organisation and experience of children’s bodies, and the final section outlines the pedagogies, rules and routines that determine how the body is treated and experienced in school.
International and multidisciplinary in scope, this unique collection is of interest to postgraduate students and researchers in education and public health, as well as history, policy studies and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|49 pages
Clinical practices
chapter 1|13 pages
Raising a healthy nation
part 2|63 pages
Programmes and policies
chapter 4|15 pages
Educating the underworked
chapter 5|16 pages
Determining biological citizenship
chapter 6|15 pages
Home economics as a school subject in Denmark
chapter 7|15 pages
In the name of health and comprehensive education
part 3|68 pages
Architecture and spatialities
chapter 8|19 pages
The classroom as healthy pavilion
chapter 9|16 pages
Escaping indoorness
part 4|45 pages
Routines and disciplinary practices