School culture and health promotion: An anthropological study in the Republic of Cyprus
- The study focuses on the introduction of a health education curriculum in Cyprus’ public schools. The curriculum’s implementation is looked at as a project of modernization and is examined ethnographically in two primary schools in the Republic of Cyprus over a period of three years. Utilizing theories and methods from Science and Technology Studies and Global Ethnography, the study examines the entanglements of Science with Culture and of Tradition with Modernity as experts, teachers, parents and children encounter the new health education curriculum. Health education is compared to a project of biological citizenship and the curriculum is seen as an actant attempting to form a personal obligation towards health by promoting “common sense” knowledge and privileging “modern” individuals.
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| Author: | Ekaterini Hommens |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-528341 |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Referee: | Gisela WelzGND, Meike Wolf |
| Advisor: | Gisela Welz |
| Document Type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/01/25 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Granting Institution: | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität |
| Date of final exam: | 2018/06/04 |
| Release Date: | 2020/01/31 |
| Tag: | Biological citizenship; Children’s agency; Church; Cyprus; Europeanization; Global ethnography; Health education; Modernity; Motherhood; Primary schools; Responsibilization; Sex education; Teachers |
| Page Number: | 229 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 458303135 |
| Institutes: | Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
