Description
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together cutting-edge research on the history of embodiment, health and schooling in an international context. The book distinguishes a set of educational technologies, schooling practices and school-based public health programmes that organise and influence the bodies of children and young people, defining the curriculum of the body.
Taking a historical approach, with a focus on the period in which mass schooling became an international phenomenon, the book is organised according to four major themes. The first positions the school as a modern clinical space, followed by the second that explores programmes and curricula which influence the discipline of and care for the body. The third section examines the role of the built environment on the organisation and experience of children's bodies, and the final section outlines the pedagogies, rules and routines that determine how the body is treated and experienced in school.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Bodies, health and schooling
Kellie Burns and Helen Proctor
Part 1: Clinical practices
1. Raising a healthy nation: Provisioning public health in English schools, c. 1875–1914
Jim Harris
2. Schooling and medical assistance: The school clinics in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Heloísa Helena Pimenta Rocha and Henrique Mendonça da Silva
3. The mediation of childhood health during the polio era in Australia
Kellie Burns, Helen Proctor, Ilektra Spandagou and Heather Weaver
Part 2: Programmes and policies
4. Educating the underworked: Dudley Allen Sargent and the influence of the rural worker on American physical culture, 1875–1919
Jason L. Newton
5. Determining biological citizenship: Creating and effacing difference in Puerto Rico’s education
Bethsaida Nieves
6. Home economics as a school subject in Denmark: From disciplining girls in the kitchen to providing general knowledge about public health
Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen
7. In the name of health and comprehensive education: Historicising contemporary school health in Chile
Felipe Hidalgo Kawada
Part 3: Architecture and spatialities
8. The classroom as healthy pavilion: Fresh air, natural light, and student bodies in 19th- and 20th-century American schools
Dale Allen Gyure
9. Escaping indoorness: Education and architecture in Italy’s summer camps during the Fascist era
Paolo Sanza
10. Architecture of health: Hygiene and schooling in Hong Kong, 1901–1941
Stella Meng Wang
11. Better Towns: Building healthy communities in New Zealand school texts
Frances Kelly
Part 4: Routines and disciplinary practices
12. Glimpses into the black box of schooling: Continuities and discontinuities in ‘gymnastics between the desks’, 1880s–1970s
Marta Brunelli
13. Who owns the body of the child? Human rights and corporal punishment in 1980s Australia
Helen Proctor, Kellie Burns and David Magro
14. Historical and contemporary perspectives on gendered school uniforms in Australia
Heather Weaver
