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HUMANIZING EDUCATION AND THE EDUCATIONALIZATION OF HEALTH
Author(s) -
Lambeir Bert,
Ramaekers Stefan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
educational theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1741-5446
pISSN - 0013-2004
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2008.00298.x
Subject(s) - postmodernism , set (abstract data type) , context (archaeology) , sociology , psychological intervention , psychology , epistemology , social education , social environment , pedagogy , social psychology , social science , philosophy , paleontology , psychiatry , computer science , biology , programming language
A bstract Theorists often take a condescending stance when speaking about the educationalization of social problems. Given their confidence with postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives, the educationalization of social problems is easily perceived as a set of questionable interventions by governments into educational practices. In this essay, Bert Lambeir and Stefan Ramaekers question the extent to which one can conceive of social problems without an understanding of education or, put more sharply, the extent to which social problems are conceivable without some form of educationalization. After describing four meanings of the concept of educationalization, Lambeir and Ramaekers discuss three popular criticisms of it. With these criticisms as context, the authors use the example of concerns about and initiatives in health education to investigate whether education can be completely freed from the educationalization of social issues. They conclude that it cannot.