Critical embodiment: Investigating the intersection of critical pedagogy and embodiment for the prevention of eating disorders in schools
Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Currently schools address eating disorders through prevention programs and health education courses that have shown to be ineffective in terms of changing behaviors of students in the long run (Piran 2005). This qualitative study explores the use of critical pedagogy as a mechanism by which teachers and students can address body-related issues (i.e. gender, sexuality) in schools. The medical term eating disorder, in this study, is replaced by the perspective of embodiment that helps expand the notion that eating disorders happen exclusively in response to the thin ideal. This study investigates, through semi structured interviews, the perspectives of 5 teachers to understand a) the ways in which educators address critical perspectives on gender and embodiment in their classrooms, and b) The implications of using critical pedagogy in the field of eating disorders prevention.
Source: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Author: Tania Grinberg-Panchuk
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2564361366