Wk 2 HPE Flashcards
What is performance culture and how is it manifested
Manifested through schools in the intestificatioj of school work including the increasing pressure brought about by exams assessment expections for achieving high grades in learning + excelling in sport
Performativity as a technology: a culture and a mode of regulation or even a system of terror that employs judgements comparisons and displays as a means of control attrition and change
What can obesity be measure in
The BMI test (weight divided by height)
Effects of performance and prevention cultures
Pedagogy is being influenced
Pressure is placed on students to conform to expections creating social and emotional anxieties
Body dissatisfaction
Eating disorders
Damaged embodied identities
The long term effects of predominant but effect Everly insidiously differently
Where and how does performance culture manifest
Manifests through schools, the pressure Brough upon by exams, assessment expectations for achieving high grades in learning and excellence in sport.
Is BMI a good indicator to check obesity
BMI has been proven to be a poor indictor of body composition as it does not account various in frame size muscle density fluid etc
What does perfection culture refer too?
Relates to Pedagogy and social interactions based on the idea that the body is imperfect and needs to be changed
What is perfection culture
Related to pedagogy + social interaction based on the idea that the body is imperfect + in need of being changed
Meaning defining what the body in size shape is ought to be and how for those who do not meet these ideals there is treatment repair
How was perfection culture born
Driven by developments in health epidemics such as obesity
This has been reflected in school curriculums in Australia UK and USA where policies and practices have been based on making young people more active fit thin
Obesity accurdemic
