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• Making schools and young people responsible: a critical analysis of Ireland's obesity strategy

  Published in:

  Health & Social Care in the Community, Vol: 16, Page: 234-243

  Publication Date:

  2008

  Aims & Objectives:

  This article discusses Ireland's obesity strategy

  Abstract:

  Worldwide reports of an obesity ‘epidemic’ prompted the Irish government to appoint a multidisciplinary Taskforce, whose report was published in May 2005. This paper critically analyses the report and its recommendations for reducing health risks among families, children and young people. Using a Foucauldian perspective, we question the report's individualizing focus and support for a strategy which responsibilises schools, families and young people and relies on individuals to do ‘the right thing’. Specifically, we examine the Taskforce recommendations for the education sector, and identify their dependence upon a discourse of governmentality, under categories of individualization, responsibilization and freedom of choice, participation and techniques for management of the self. We conclude that the report fails to address the multi-faceted and complex nature of obesity, and obscures the social, economic and material realities of the lives of pupils and schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

  Authors:

  Michelle Share; Michael Strain

  Study Type:

  Non Study Papers » Discussion paper, review, commentary, letter »

  Notes:

  Article Accession Number: 31642169; Share, Michelle 1; Email Address: sharem@tcd.ie; Strain, Michael 2; Affiliations: 1: Children's Research Centre, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland 2: Institute for Education Policy Research, Staffordshire University, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK Source Info: May2008, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p234; Subject Term: CHILDREN -- Health & hygiene; Subject Term: OBESITY -- Prevention; Subject Term: GOVERNMENTALITY; Subject Term: SOCIAL control; Subject Term: GOVERNMENT regulation; Subject Term: CHILD care; Subject Term: HEALTH behavior in children; Subject Term: BODY weight; Subject Term: IRELAND; Author-Supplied Keyword: education; Author-Supplied Keyword: governmentality; Author-Supplied Keyword: health; Author-Supplied Keyword: risk; Author-Supplied Keyword: youth; Number of Pages: 10p. Document Type: Article

  Keywords:

  • Body Weight
  • Child Care
  • CHILDREN -- Health & hygiene
  • Education
  • GOVERNMENT regulation
  • GOVERNMENTALITY
  • health
  • HEALTH behavior in children
  • Ireland
  • OBESITY -- Prevention
  • Risk
  • SOCIAL control
  • Youth

  
  

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland (Republic of Ireland)