Social Theory and Health Education

Forging New Insights in Research

Deana Leahy, Katie Fitzpatrick, Jan Wright, Deana Leahy, Katie Fitzpatrick, Jan Wright

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781138485730
• eBook ISBN: 9781351048156
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Social Theory and Health Education brings together health education scholarship with a diverse range of social theories to demonstrate the value and impact of their application to associated health and education contexts.

For the first time, this book draws together cutting-edge research that demonstrates the productive and impactful ways social theory can be applied to the diversity of research in this field. Topics covered include digital health, health education in sexuality, gender and health, food and nutrition, mental health and wellbeing, environment, and alcohol and drug use. In exploring these topics, each author utilises different theorists and concepts to compellingly demonstrate their application to a range of health education research contexts.

This collection provides examples for both students, early career and established scholars that showcase ways that social theory can be utilised in empirical and theoretical research. The collection also highlights how health education scholarship can be enhanced by engaging with social theory. It also explores the viability of various theories for work in this field, and their potential to generate new approaches for research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• 1. Why do we need social theory in health education?
• 2. Working with social theory in health education
• 3. Biopedagogies and family life: A social class perspective
• 4. The ontological politics of partying: Drug education, young men and drug consumption
• 5. Using Bourdieu to understand health and education
• 6. Poststructuralist and new-materialist approaches to analyses of bullying among children
• 7. Vital materialism and the thing-power of lively digital data
• 8. Assembling affects: A Deleuzo-Guattarian approach to school drug education
• 9. Critical policy studies and historical sociology of concepts: Wellbeing and mindfulness in education
• 10. ‘School refusal’: What is the problem represented to be? A critical analysis using Carol Bacchi’s questioning approach
• 11. Health education policy and curriculum: Bernsteinian perspectives and a whole new Ball game
• 12. Navigating health knowledge: Postcolonialism and ethnic minority girls’ experiences of health education in school contexts
• 13. Governmentality, school nutrition and the international practice of governing health behaviours
• 14. ‘Deleuze for goodness sake’: Examining health inequities via assemblage theorising
• 15. Re/doing sexuality education research as a rhizomatic pedagogical encounter and its educational implications
• 16. Education as products and productions of norms
• 17. Digital health technologies, body pedagogies and materialdiscursive relations of young people’s learning about health
• 18. Putting Foucauldian ethics to work in critical health education
• 19. Engaging with normativity in health education research: Inspiration from Continental Critical Theory
• 20. Destroying the family and civilization: Marxism, safe schools and sexuality education
• 21. Beyond carrot sticks and sermons: The practice of education in obesity interventions
• 22. Public health pedagogy and technology as a mode of existence
• Index