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Health, hygiene, and the formation of school subjects.
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Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education . Aug2023, Vol. 44 Issue 4, p595-606. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- By tracing roughly 200 years of the formation of American school subjects, this paper complicates some of the self-evidence for calls to adapt school subjects according to complex health concerns, more recently amplified by COVID-19. To do so, the paper diagrams a counter-memory of three key amalgams of health related to the makings of school mathematics and reading-as-literacy: balancing mind–body-spirit-matter-nation networks, scientizing a hygiene of instruction for 'ethnic' minds, and reconfiguring bio-psycho-social adjustment – all pursued as problems of duration, intensity, and distance from differently dynamic and/or racializing norms. Throughout, we draw attention to how both universalizing and ethno-specific orthodoxies and their proposed alternatives have produced school subjects as self-evident strategic sites for addressing health concerns that invite underappreciated dangers today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CURRICULUM
*HYGIENE
*SCHOOL hygiene
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01596306
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 165049253
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2022.2060939