Outline of a Theory of Practice

Bourdieu, Pierre

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“…In Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgement and Taste , Bourdieu argues that food and eating is much more than a process of bodily nourishment; it is an elaborate performance of gender, social class and identity. This performance is central to the habitus , a concept which encompasses the implicit practices and routines that structure the logic of everyday life (Bourdieu 1977: 72). Embodiment is central to habitus , for it is through the body that one learns the taken‐for‐granted dispositions of everyday life, such as accents, gestures, and preferences for food, fashion and entertainment (Crotty and Germov 2004: 252).…”

Section: Introduction: Locating Obesity Within Social Structuresmentioning

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Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI

Warin

Turner

Moore

et al. 2007

Sociology Health & Illness

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Despite the intense level of attention directed towards obesity, there has been limited success in addressing the rising rates of this public health phenomenon. This paper argues that current approaches to obesity fail to consider concepts of embodiment, and in particular, that gendered and class-based experiences of embodiment are ignored in health promotion practices and policies. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of habitus , this ethnographic study sought to locate obesity within the biographies and everyday experiences of two groups of women from differing socio-economic settings. Rather than identify with the clinical category of obesity, these women constructed identities that were refracted through a gendered and classed habitus , and in particular, through their role as mothers. Food provision and practices were central to constructs of mothering, and these relational identities were at odds with the promotion of individual behavioural changes. Moreover, these women's daily lives were shaped by different class-based aspects of habitus , such as employment. In demonstrating the ways in which obesity is enmeshed in participants' taken-for-granted, everyday practices, we problematise the universality of health-promotion messages and highlight the integral role that the critical theory of habitus has in understanding the embodiment of obesity.

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Section: Introduction: Locating Obesity Within Social Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI

Warin

Turner

Moore

et al. 2007

Sociology Health & Illness

165

131

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“…This article set out to explore understandings of body shape and how they impact on relational dynamics in the lived experiences of young children in Malta. It explored the child's emergent self/body image through the shift in habitus from that of the protective and doting immediate family, through a period of hysteresis (Bourdieu ) with school entry, to the cut and thrust of interaction with peers in the older children's playground. The data were used to show how these interactions are useful indicators of what is considered desirable as a body shape of very young children, how this impacts on their lived experience of being fat and feeds back in to the loop of the child's reflexive embodiment.…”

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Obesity in question: understandings of body shape, self and normalcy among children in Malta

Martin

2015

Sociology Health & Illness

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Childhood obesity is a major public health concern in contemporary Malta. This article applies a critical realist approach to exploring body shape in young children, recognising fatness and obesity to be both a biologically and a socially constructed phenomenon. The agentic status of the child is central to the research design aimed at exploring understandings of body shape and how they impact on relational dynamics in the lived experiences of young children in Malta. Ethnographic methods were used in a school setting, working with children (n = 134) in two age groups: 5 and 10-year olds. The findings show a marked difference in the two groups. The obese 5-year-olds, buffered by robust protective strategies in their primary group, seem to be unaware of any difference in body shape. This situation changes in the older group where the fat body is stigmatised and obese children develop private coping strategies to deal with the physical disadvantages, taunting and exclusion by their peers. The data show that there is a culturally entrenched fluidity in the lay concept of obesity that impacts on the process of embodiment in young children and may have a lasting effect on body shape and weight.

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“…These conditions are indicated in Table involving discourses that encompass the social and educational fields of activity, the cultural and political contextualisation of events for students and teachers to relate, the identification of the patterns and themes of experience for theorising and the mapping of influences and outcomes as practices are changed. This is not an idealised conception of classrooms, but reflects the comment of Bourdieu (, p. 169) that ‘Crisis is a necessary condition for the questioning of doxa but is not in itself a sufficient condition for the production of a critical discourse’.…”

Section: Implications For ‘Critical Praxis’: Freire Bourdieu and Brimentioning

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“…It raises historic questions of what is good, what can I learn and how can I live well? Bourdieu (, p. 167) suggests that part of the reason for moving to questions of this type and for the political hardening of social views implies that ‘The self‐evidence of the world is reduplicated by the instituted discourses about the world in which the whole group's adherence to that self‐evidence is affirmed’. He raises notion of ‘doxa’ or popular opinion and points out that more radical perspectives are always limited by objective conditions including the imperatives of the dominant class.…”

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Exposing the intricacies of pre‐service teacher education: Incorporating the insights of Freire and Bourdieu

Hooley

2013

Review of Education

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All education proceeds within a complex array of epistemological and ontological factors that constitute a shifting and intricate learning environment for teachers, pre-service teachers and school students alike. We have expanded a 'praxis inquiry' protocol into a 'critical praxis' protocol for use in pre-service programs. A framework of collaborative practitioner research beginning with the community and cultural understandings of Freire has drawn us to the work of Bourdieu. Accordingly, we have introduced a process with pre-service teachers of constructing a collaborative habitus-field analysis throughout the year. This tracks and details the changing experience of participants as they come to grips with their new world of classrooms and teacher education and provides a fertile delta of ideas, uncertainties and possibilities for continuing discourse. Based on this reflexive process, members of the research team have written brief 'vignettes' of their own changing understanding, following which other team members have written brief 'commentaries' as ongoing professional dialogue. Preliminary analysis of our own reflexive understanding suggests that specific characteristics of the critical praxis protocol such as practice imagined and practice re-imagined are significant and that the complex mix of ideology critique, self-reflexive consciousness and emancipatory action may only receive superficial consideration by teacher educators. impacted on the relationship between the school curriculum, the pedagogies adopted by teachers and teacher education. Such factors have included:• Strongly connected approaches to schooling, teaching and learning and dominant economic trends including the Welfare State era 1945 -1975 and the Neoliberal era 1980 • Continuing lack of definition of secondary schooling that comprises a mix of preparation for employment, preparation for tertiary studies, preparation for general studies of the classics or disciplines and preparation for citizenship.

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Outline of a Theory of Practice

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Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI

Bodies, mothers and identities: rethinking obesity and the BMI

Obesity in question: understandings of body shape, self and normalcy among children in Malta

Exposing the intricacies of pre‐service teacher education: Incorporating the insights of Freire and Bourdieu

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