This free Open Learn course examines food as a health issue and addresses children and young people’s agency and their rights.
Cost: £0.00 | Free for all users
1 sessions • Self paced course
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Each session is available on catch up for at least 7 days
Course type: self-paced
Level: Beginner
Host: Open Learn
This free course with Open Learn examines food as a health issue and addresses children and young people’s agency and their rights.
It addresses obesity, food marketing and also food as a way of expressing children’s and young people’s identities (family, class, cultural, generational). Discussing key issues that in research and thinking about food, including how policies tackling obesity are framed, it draws across work from Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology to challenge the rhetoric of 'healthy choices' and consider why it's essential to go beyond the individual to understand systems and environments that currently fail children and their health.
After studying this course, you should be able to:
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