Critical Studies in Health and Education
About the Book Series
Critical Studies in Health and Education provides a platform for established and emerging scholars to present research and theory on the intersections between health and education.
This series welcomes edited and authored texts underpinned by sociological, critical and political approaches to health-related issues in education. These might include but are not limited to:
- Critical health studies;
- Health education curriculum, teaching, pedagogies and assessment;
- Health and sustainability education;
- The politics of health in schools;
- The body, health and education;
- Digital health pedagogies;
- Critical approaches to contexts such as: sexuality education, mental health education, drug and alcohol education, food and nutrition;
- Social and emotional learning and personal development;
- Critical and youth-centred approaches to: health promotion in universities, schools and early childhood contexts, and public health pedagogies;
- Critical analyses of health education in the work place;
- Critical, feminist and postcolonial approaches to health education and wellbeing.
This book series invites books offering discussion and debate about the practice of health education and the development of solutions to the new ethical, practical, political and philosophical questions that are emerging.
To discuss a proposed submission, please contact Katie Fitzpatrick ([email protected]), Deana Leahy ([email protected]), Jan Wright ([email protected]), Didier Jourdan ([email protected]) or Jessica Fields ([email protected]).
School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies
1st Edition
By José Tenorio
January 30, 2025
Intertwining policy analysis and ethnography, José Tenorio examines how, and why now, the promotion of healthy lifestyles has been positioned as an ideal ‘solution’ to obesity and how this shapes the preparation, sale and consumption of food in schools in Mexico. This book situates obesity as a ...
The Curriculum of the Body and the School as Clinic: Histories of Public Health and Schooling
1st Edition
Edited
By Kellie Burns, Helen Proctor
December 05, 2023
This collection brings together cutting-edge research on the history of embodiment, health and schooling in an international context. The book distinguishes a set of educational technologies, schooling practices and school-based public health programmes that organise and influence the bodies of ...
School Food, Equity and Social Justice: Critical Reflections and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorte Ruge, Irene Torres, Darren Powell
February 28, 2022
School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective. The book is divided into three sections: Food politics and policies; Sustainability and ...
Teachers as Health Workers: A Critical Understanding of the Health-Education Interface
1st Edition
By Louise McCuaig, Eimear Enright, Tony Rossi, Doune Macdonald
December 31, 2021
Schooling has long been held responsible for the health and well-being of children. However, against an international background of rising concern about students’ performance and well-being, schools and teachers have faced escalating expectations of their health-related work. While various ...
Creative Approaches to Health Education: New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah Lupton, Deana Leahy
November 26, 2021
This book shows how creative methods, drawing on innovative arts-based and design-based approaches, can be employed in health education contexts. It takes a very broad view of ‘health education’, considering it as applying not only in school settings but across the lifespan, and as including ...
Social Theory and Health Education: Forging New Insights in Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Deana Leahy, Katie Fitzpatrick, Jan Wright
April 07, 2020
Social Theory and Health Education brings together health education scholarship with a diverse range of social theories to demonstrate the value and impact of their application to associated health and education contexts. For the first time, this book draws together cutting-edge research that ...
Schools, Corporations, and the War on Childhood Obesity: How Corporate Philanthropy Shapes Public Health and Education
1st Edition
By Darren Powell
December 02, 2019
Challenging the idea that the corporate ‘war’ against childhood obesity is normal, necessary, or harmless, this book exposes healthy lifestyles education as a form of mis-education that shapes how students learn about health, corporations, and consumption. Drawing on ethnographic research and ...