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Type: | Book chapter |
Title: | Beyond carrot sticks and sermons: The practice of education in obesity interventions |
Author: | Warin, M.J. |
Citation: | Social Theory and Health Education: Forging New Insights in Research, 2020 / Leahy, D., Fitzpatrick, K., Wright, J. (ed./s), Ch.21, pp.230-240 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Publisher Place: | London, United Kingdom |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Series/Report no.: | Critical Studies in Health and Education |
ISBN: | 113848573X 9781138485730 |
Editor: | Leahy, D. Fitzpatrick, K. Wright, J. |
Statement of Responsibility: | Megan Warin |
Abstract: | Drawing from social anthropologist Tim Ingold’s work on education as skill and creativity, this chapter takes a social practice lens to the concept of education in obesity interventions. I argue that the dominant understanding of education as information transmission—from expert to novice—limits our attention to, and capacity to enact, social change around eating practices. Using ethnographic examples, I position education in the context of everyday spaces, relationships and social practices, thus placing skill as a key component of knowledge, rather than understanding individuals and information as the primary unit and transmission of knowledge. Looking to social practices (and not the individual) as sites of improvisation and change opens up new methodological and theoretical perspectives for public health programming and policy. |
Rights: | © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Deana Leahy, Katie Fitzpatrick and Jan Wright; individual chapters, the contributors |
DOI: | 10.4324/9781351048163-21 |
Published version: | https://www.routledge.com/Social-Theory-and-Health-Education-Forging-New-Insights-in-Research-1st/Leahy-Fitzpatrick-Wright/p/book/9781138485754 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Gender Studies and Social Analysis publications |
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