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McDermott, Lisa – Sport, Education and Society, 2012
Saturating the Canadian landscape are media and health industry discourses representing childhood physical "(in)activity" and "obesity" as being at "epidemic" proportion. Increasingly identified as a focus of concern within such representations is the school setting, simultaneously positioned both as a cause of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Obesity, Child Health, Physical Education
Arizona State Department of Education, 2005
The Team Nutrition Grant (TNG) Project began in 2003 with the goal to guide and assist schools to create and maintain a coordinated, comprehensive school health program. Such a program integrates a school's child nutrition programs, with the classroom, the community, and entire school environment. A coordinated, comprehensive school health program…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Grants, Educational Environment, Nutrition
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Kist-Kline, Gail E.; Quantz, Richard A. – Journal for a Just and Caring Education, 1998
Demonstrates how a school-based mental health program helps create a caring alternative high school, based on data gathered by shadowing students; interviewing students, teachers, staff, and counselors; reviewing documents; and observing group-counseling sessions. Findings indicate that counseling allows students to experience caring, when…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Educational Environment, Feminism, High Risk Students