Eating disorders among adolescents in South African public schools – a biblical perspective
Society’s obsession with thinness and body image is part of every school’s hidden curriculum. The ideal to be skinny and thin resulted in an escalation in eating disorders among adolescents in South Africa. Some of the learners are only in the senior phase (Grades 7 to 9) of the general education an...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Опубликовано: |
2005
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| В: |
Koers
Год: 2005, Том: 70, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 27-50 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Eating Disorders
B Handling Of Eating Disorders B School B Bible And Self-Image B Adolescents |
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| Итог: | Society’s obsession with thinness and body image is part of every school’s hidden curriculum. The ideal to be skinny and thin resulted in an escalation in eating disorders among adolescents in South Africa. Some of the learners are only in the senior phase (Grades 7 to 9) of the general education and training band. It is therefore timely to review the problem of eating disorders, especially among adolescents in South African public schools. The purpose of this article is firstly to provide policy-makers, curriculum developers, educational ad-ministrators and educators with knowledge of the biblical view of health and to illustrate the pedagogical potential of such a view. Secondly the purpose is to assist Christian educators in teaching learners in public schools the necessary knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to counteract eating disorders by using, among other things, biblical truths. |
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| ISSN: | 2304-8557 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Koers
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4102/koers.v70i1.258 |
