Supporting Students of all Shapes and Sizes in PHE: (Re)thinking Body Size Diversity within Embodied Learning
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice
Hong Kong 2023
This session will be an invitation to think about how weight plays an important role in Physical and Health education (PHE) spaces, and how teachers can foster spaces in which students of all sizes feel confident, competent and accepted. Within this session, I will discuss the ways thin privilege and fat oppression operate in explicit and implicit ways in PHE spaces (McNinch, 2016) and I will highlight how weight stigma negatively impacts students’ health, more than weight (Tomiyama et al., 2018). Rather than taking a negative perspective or deficit-based critique of PHE and its history of body shaming, this session will offer strategies for engaging with positive body and physical activity -based teaching.
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Hong Kong 2023
Hong Kong 2023
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Most applicable to educators working in the following areas:
- Upper Elementary [Age 8 - 10]
- Middle School [Age 11 - 13]
- High School [Age 14 - 17]
