The Fat Pedagogy Reader

Erin Cameron (PhD, Lakehead University) is Assistant Professor in the School of Human Kinetics and Recreation, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. She has published numerous book chapters and articles in journals like Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society. Constance Russell (PhD, University of Toronto), a Professor in the Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada, has published numerous articles and book chapters and is editor of the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education and co-editor of the Rethinking Environmental Education book series for Peter Lang.

Contents: Ellen S. Abell: Picking the Bones – Tracy Royce: Fat Invisibility, Fat Hate: Towards a Progressive Pedagogy of Size – Victoria Kannen: «How Can You Be Teaching This?»: Tears, Fears, and Fat – Linda Bacon/Caitlin O’Reilly/Lucy Aphramor: Reflections on Thin Privilege and Responsibility – Cat Pausé: Promise to Try: Combating Fat Oppression Through Pedagogy in Tertiary Education – Amy E. Farrell: Teaching Fat Studies in a Liberal Arts College: The Centrality of Mindfulness, Deep Listening, and Empathic Interpretation as Pedagogic Methods – Esther D. Rothblum: Weapons of Mass Distraction in Teaching Fat Studies: «But Aren’t They Unhealthy? And Why Can’t They Just Lose Weight?» – Pamela Ward/Natalie Beausoleil/Olga Heath: Creating Space for a Critical Examination of Weight-Centered Approaches in Health Pedagogy and Health Professions – Moss Norman/LeAnne Petherick: The Enemy Within: Teaching «Hard Knowledges» About «Soft Bodies» in a Kinesiology Faculty – Lisette Burrows: «Obesity» Warriors in the Tertiary Classroom – Hannah McNinch: Fat Bullying of Girls in Elementary and Secondary Schools: Implications for Teacher Education – Richard Pringle/Darren Powell: Critical Pedagogical Strategies to Disrupt Weight Bias in Schools – Lori Don Levan: Recognizing and Representing Bodies of Difference Through Art Education – Jan Wright/Deana Leahy: Moving Beyond Body Image: A Socio-Critical Approach to Teaching About Health and Body Size – Angela S. Alberga/Shelly Russell-Mayhew: Promoting Physical Activity for All Shapes and Sizes –Patti Lou Watkins: Inclusion of Fat Studies in a Difference, Power, and Discrimination Curriculum – Erin Cameron: Learning to Teach Every Body: Exploring the Emergence of a Critical «Obesity» Pedagogy – Krishna Bhagat/Shannon Jette: An «Intervention» Into Public Health Interventions: Questioning the Weight-Based Paradigm – Caitlin O’Reilly: Mitigating Weight Stigma Through Health Professional Education – Heather Brown: Fat Studies in the Field of Higher Education: Developing a Theoretical Framework and Its Implications for Research and Practice – Constance Russell/Keri Semenko: We Take «Cow» as a Compliment: Fattening Humane, Environmental, and Social Justice Education – Breanne Fahs: A Tale of Three Classrooms: Fat Studies and Its Intellectual Allies – Emma Rich: A Public Pedagogy Approach to Fat Pedagogy – Michael Gard: Navigating Morality, Politics, and Reason: Towards Scientifically Literate and Intellectually Ethical Fat Pedagogies – Constance Russell/Erin Cameron: A Fat Pedagogy Manifesto.