Ditching Weight Stigma and Anti-Fat Bias At School - Big and Small Equity Fixes for Educators

Learn how anti-fat bias, weight stigma, and fatphobia show up in P-12 educational spaces and how that bias impacts the learners, educators, and communities where it happens.
In this important book, author Cait O'Connor reveals common problems with anti-fatness toward students in the classroom, in the curriculum, across subject areas, in the cafeteria, and after school. She also discusses anti-fatness toward teachers and staff. Throughout, she helps educators reflect on these issues and offers concrete solutions and equity fixes.
No matter what grade or subject you teach, you will benefit from the book's insightful research and practical strategies, and you'll come away prepared to help create a more equitable, stigma-free learning environment for all constituents.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Press Play 1. Introduction 2. Facing the Music: Seeing Anti-Fat Bias as a Problem 3. "We've Been Waiting for You": Changing the Built Environment 4. The Health/Phys Ed Trauma is Over (If you want it): Health, PE, and Anti-Fat Bias Part 2: Hit Pause 5. The Miseducation of Everyone: Weight Stigma Across Content Areas 6. Cheeseburgers in Paradise: School Lunch, Food and Diet Culture 7. School's Out: Fighting Weight Stigma in Extracurricular Activity Part 3: The Remix 8. Workin' 7-3: Anti-Fat Bias and the Teacher Day 9. We're All in this Together: Collaborating for Change

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Cait O'Connor, Cait O''connor
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 11.03.2026
• EAN: 9781032870311
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3287031-1
• Seiten: 280
• Serie: Equity and Social Justice in Education Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Allgemeines, Lexika; EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss, EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs, SPORTS & RECREATION / Children's & Youth Sports, Educational administration and organization, School/community relations & school/home relations, Multicultural education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Physical Education