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23 SES 03 C, Effects of Reform on Teachers and Schools
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The World Health Organisation has estimated that the number of obese adults worldwide increased from 200 million to 300 million between 1995 and 2000 (WHO, 2006). A recent UK report has suggested that 60% of men and 50% of women will be obese by 2050 (McPherson et al, 2007). Similar growth patterns have been detected in children. As the rhetoric around this ‘globesity’ epidemic has escalated, policy-makers have increasingly called upon schools to address such health issues (Lambeir and Ramaekers, 2008), despite the absence of evidence that such interventions have an impact on learning or educational performance (Ellis et al, 2006). This has led to an extension of the performative culture of accountability and evaluation (Ball, 2004; Evans et al, 2008), in the UK and internationally, in which health and health education have become additional areas in which schools feel held to account. This paper explores the outcomes of one city-wide intervention in a large urban location authority in the North West of England which used school food as a means of promoting healthy living among children and young people. It is based on the three year evaluation of the intervention which is intended to measure its impact on the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people in the city.
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References
Ball, S. (2004) Performativities and Fabrications in the Education Economy: towards the performative society. In Ball, S. (ed.) (2004) The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Sociology of Education, London and New York: Routledge Falmer, 144-154. Ells, L.J., Hillier, F.C., & Summerbell, C.D. (2006) A systematic review of the effect of nutrition, diet and dietary change on learning, education and performance of children of relevance to UK schools. University of Teeside: Food Standards Agency. Evans, J., Rich, E., Davies, B. and Allwood, R. (2008) Education, disordered eating and obesity discourse: fat fabrications. London and New York: Routledge. Kirkpatrick, D.L. (1994). Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler. Lambeir, B. and S. Ramaekers. 2008. Humanizing Education and the Educationalization of Health. Educational Theory, 58, 4: 435-446. McPherson, K., Marsh, T. & Brown, M. (2007) Foresight. Tackling Obesities: Future Choices – Modelling Future Trends in Obesity & Their Impact on Health. 2nd Edition. London: Government Office for Science World Health Organization (WHO) (2006) Fact Sheet 311. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/index.html
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