Fat Pedagogy and Outdoor Education.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Russell, Connie; Cameron, Erin; Socha, Teresa; McNinch, Hannah
- Source
- Pathways: the Ontario journal of outdoor education; Fall2013, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p11-16, 6p
- Subject
- Outdoor education
Teachers
Body weight
Oppression
Obesity
- Language
- ISSN
- 08408114
The article discusses how outdoor education reinforces weight-based oppression when fat learners are marginalized and obesity is named as one of the dire consequences of less time spent outside. It provides narratives which illustrate the struggle of teachers and researchers working in outdoor education with body image and have experienced, reproduced and resisted weight-based oppression. It suggests not to use obesity discourse when addressing weight-based oppression in outdoor education.