KNPE 367
Fitness, the Body, and Culture
2020 · Fitness, the Body and Culture
Topics
- Historical perspectives on fitness and bodies
- Embodiment – thinking about movement beyond
- Physical activity – influences on participation
- The meanings of exercise: Walking and swimming
- The individual focus in health promotion
- The meanings of exercise: Pleasure
- Health as a super-value
- Frameworks for understanding fitness - Normativity
- Critical perspectives on physical activity
- Episodes in the history of PE: Colonialism and
- Obesity – science and politics
- Physical fitness
- Sexuality
- Gender
- Physical education
Readings
- Listed material: To develop the art of the good question
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Course summary ↗2020