What is Kinesiology - Part 2

Question 1

How did Kine align with Health promotion?

Answer 1

Kine was defined as an area for health promotion because of sport and fitness being apart of lifestyle.

Question 2

How did health promotion go up?

Answer 2

Gov. needed to spend less and they put money into health care, which skyrocketed health promotion

Question 3

What are some critical implications to take into consideration?

Answer 3

Genetics, lifestyle choices and social conditions which individuals cannot control.

Question 4

Why is pushing health promotion important?

Answer 4

Pushing health promotion in the form of lifestyle/personal choice shifts responsibility onto individual. Kine as health promotion reinforces this.

Question 5

Define: Agency

Answer 5

Having control of your own destiny

Question 6

Define: Structure

Answer 6

Forced upon someone, controlling and used as a puppet.

Question 7

What are the Canadian Guidelines for Physical Activity?

Answer 7

CESP encourages movement for 0-65+ years of age.
Exercising with moderate to vigorous activity for 150 minutes a week is essential.

Question 8

How did Kinesiology come into CESP?

Answer 8

Kinesiology saw the health promotion and jumped on the bandwagon when gov. wanted to promote health

Question 9

What are strengths of the guidelines?

Answer 9

1) Widely recognized
2) Evidence informed
3) Gov. stamp of approval

Question 10

What are weaknesses to guidelines?

Answer 10

1) Physical activity was solely in service of health
2) Gives people responsibility to exercise without taking other parts of their life into account
3) Didn’t consider fun in the guidelines

Question 11

How was Kine being made normalized?

Answer 11

Kine being put into higher education supports it’s legitimacy of sub-disciplinary areas that comprise of Kine. It’s normalized as a disciplinary area.

Question 12

Why should there not be narrow minded thinking in Kinesiology?

Answer 12

There must be focus on the science and cultural side of Kinesiology; so not only learning about the anatomical part of the body but the artistic body too.

Question 13

What did Brian Pronger mean when he said, “one way as the way?”

Answer 13

Everyone focuses on the open minded science of the body becoming more important than the personal feelings of knowledge that comes from bodily experience of physical activity.

Question 14

What does “Rendering the Body: The implicit lessons of Gross Anatomy” discuss?

Answer 14

It discusses the roles that anatomy courses in objectifying attitudes play. The experiences of the anatomy lab sees the body as a mechanical object and forces students to think of the body in particular ways.

Question 15

Traditional Dualism?

Answer 15

Divides a concept into two opposed aspects. i.e. Mind-Body dualism

Question 16

Body as a useful object

Answer 16

Encouraged to own bodies, control bodies with mind and willpower. Rather, the body is seen as something that needs shaping and maintenance all the time.

Question 17

What is a technological habituse?

Answer 17

It’s a deep understanding of yourself as a machine that can be molded to be useful.

Question 18

Force Relations

Answer 18

Large number of social forces (race, age, gender, etc) that act on the body and creates power.

Question 19

How is power used in defining the body as an object?

Answer 19

The power to know and control the body in particular ways is linked to Pronger believing it’s a useful mechanistic object which normalizes it.

Question 20

Define: Habitus

Answer 20

How we understand ourselves and others; “foundational attitude.” What we see as norms, values and it lives unconsciously within us.

Question 21

What does the body become useful for?

Answer 21

If continued to be seen as the objective knowledge of science it becomes a technological habituse trained to fit the large machinery of society.

Question 22

What are implicit lessons of anatomy that contribute to technological habitus?

Answer 22

1) Seeing the body as an object; emotional detachment
2) The body being accessible to the scientific gaze & therefore the needs of technology.