Schools, Corporations, and the War on Childhood Obesity by Darren Powell

Schools, Corporations, and the War on Childhood Obesity by Darren Powell

Challenging the idea that the corporate war against childhood obesity is normal, necessary, or harmless, this book exposes healthy lifestyles education as a form of mis-education that shapes how students learn about health, corporations and consumption.

There are many organisations and actors who purport to be taking action for children and healthy lifestyles but who on closer examination turn out to be part of the problem as much as any solutionIn Schools, Corporations and the War on Childhood Obesity, Darren Powell draws on research and scholarship to tenaciously address that most crucial of questions: whose interests are being served? This will be an uncomfortable book for many who work in this area, but it is a compelling wakeup call for our times.

Professor Martin Thrupp, School of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Dr Powell has written a powerful and urgent book that traces the way modern schools manage or mis-manage their entangles with corporations, government, charities and the like. I particularly found his work with school students moving. Sometimes, students will tell you the most interesting, astounding and critical interpretation of what going on education today. Dr Powell also mixes his ethnographic, analysis and literary skills to produce a thoughtful, patient and, in the end, crucial book.

Associate Professor Michael Gard (author of The End of the Obesity Epidemic), School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia

This book makes a unique and invaluable contribution to this body of work through its comprehensive ‘disentangling’ of the activities of corporations and selling so-called ‘solutions’ to the ‘obesity epidemic’. Filled with rich ethnographic data, this volume provides a very readable and convincing account that needs to be read by all parents and teachers.

Emeritus Professor Jan Wright, School of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia

Darren Powell shows through evidence from his own ethnographic research in schools the worrying trends and increasingly blurred lines between education, entertainment and advertising. This excellent book is a must read for all teachers (especially health and physical education teachers) and school administrators who are looking to unscramble and resist the corporate pedagogies that are reshaping primary school education – and children..

Emeritus Professor Richard Tinning, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia

Darren Powell is a senior lecturer in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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ISBN 13	9780815355120
ISBN 10	0815355122
Title	Schools, Corporations, and the War on Childhood Obesity
Author	Darren Powell
Series	Critical Studies In Health And Education
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Inc
Year published	2019-12-03
Number of pages	210
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