Schools and Public Health

Past, Present, Future

AvMichael Gard,Carolyn Pluim

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Schools and Public Health is a meditation on the past, present, and future of the relationship between public health and American public schools. Gard and Pluim begin by developing a historical account of the way schools have been used in the public health policy arena in America. They then look in detail at more contemporary examples of school-based public health policies and initiatives in order to come to a judgment about whether and to what extent it makes sense to use schools in this way. With this is as the foundation, the book then offers answers to the question of why schools have so readily been drawn into public health policy formulations. First, seeing schools as a kind of ‘miracle factory’ is a long standing habit of mind that discourages careful consideration of alternative public health strategies. Second, schools have been implicated in public health policy in strategic ways by actors often with unstated political, cultural, ideological, and financial motivations. Finally, the authors call for a more sophisticated approach to public health policy in schools and suggest some criteria for judging the potential efficacy of school-based interventions. In short, the potential effectiveness of proposed interventions needs to be assessed not only against existing historical evidence, but also against the competing roles society expects schools to play and the working-life realities for those charged with implementing public health policies in schools.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-29
Mått:154 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt:422 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Education Policy and Politics
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498536097

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Michael Gard is senior research fellow in the School of Education at Southern Cross University and adjunct associate professor at the University of Queensland.Carolyn Pluim is associate professor of education at Northern Illinois University.

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Gard and Pluim have produced a coherent reflection on the history of relations between schools and public health. Though the authors quickly introduce the term ‘school health’ as a synonym for public health in educational space, the book remains useful for teachers and school administrators interested in the historical relationship between schools and public, health-related initiatives in schools. Gard and Pluim offer a needed addition to scholarship on schools and public health that sets the stage for more sophisticated discussions about the present and future of public health interventions in educational environments. The book's strength is that it provides a strong history of the positive and negative (even exploitative) ways that corporate and institutional influence, wielded in the name of health, have operated in education space. The authors focus chiefly on Western educational settings and initiatives with a corporate and economic modality. Readers would benefit from more contemporary examples of public health initiatives in schools. The book is a vanguard piece in the examination of school health’s history from an educational perspective, as opposed to previously penned works by public health practitioners. Gard and Pluim’s informative mediation introduces teachers to the history, context, usefulness, and methods of health intervention in schools. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduates and above.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Fear and Loathing in SeattleChapter 2: A Process not a ThingChapter 3: The Birth of the Miracle FactoryChapter 4: A Dazzling VarietyChapter 5: Sex, Drugs, and School FoodChapter 6: Reforming the SelfChapter 7: Obesity, Schools, and HistoryChapter 8: The ‘New’ Body Work of Being a TeacherChapter 9: Health for SaleChapter 10: A Future without Limits