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Fernández, Eluska; Kitching, Karl; Horgan, Deirdre – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
Education policy internationally positions schools as central sites of intervention on 'obesity epidemics', particularly in working class communities. This article presents a moral geographies approach which examines how such obesity-focused healthy food imperatives are experienced in specific places and times. The authors draw on data from a…
Descriptors: Working Class, Food, Obesity, Intervention
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Brook, Heather; Michell, Dee – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
In this article, we argue that the expectations, experience, and identities of academics may be just as crucial to improving the participation of students from low socio-economic status (SES) as higher education policies, admissions and marketing activities, but are routinely ignored. In particular, we observe that highly relevant, well-informed,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Working Class, Biographies, Expectation