TY  - THES
A1  - Hommens, Ekaterini
T1  - School culture and health promotion: An anthropological study in the Republic of Cyprus
N2  - The study focuses on the introduction of a health education curriculum in Cyprus’ public schools. The curriculum’s implementation is looked at as a project of modernization and is examined ethnographically in two primary schools in the Republic of Cyprus over a period of three years. Utilizing theories and methods from Science and Technology Studies and Global Ethnography, the study examines the entanglements of Science with Culture and of Tradition with Modernity as experts, teachers, parents and children encounter the new health education curriculum. Health education is compared to a project of biological citizenship and the curriculum is seen as an actant attempting to form a personal obligation towards health by promoting “common sense” knowledge and privileging “modern” individuals.
KW  - Health education
KW  - Primary schools
KW  - Cyprus
KW  - Children’s agency
KW  - Biological citizenship
KW  - Global ethnography
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Responsibilization
KW  - Sex education
KW  - Church
KW  - Europeanization
KW  - Modernity
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/52834
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-528341
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -