ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways in which the curriculum of the body operates in the Latin American context, specifically, in the Chilean school. By utilising the ‘Other Indicators of Educative Quality’ policy as a lens to historically and critically comprehend how health is being taken up in contemporary Chilean schools, this chapter explores the discourses and practices around bodies, health and childhood, and how they intersect with ideas around becoming a ‘healthy student’ and ‘healthy school’. The chapter furthermore discusses how these developments can be seen as a product of contemporary global forces—mediated locally—with deep histories of homogenisation and colonial oppressions in the name of health.
