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Health education in Swedish schools - what's on offer?
Dalarna University, School of Health and Welfare, Sport and Health Science. Edith Cowan Univ, Sch Educ, Joondalup, Australia.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3572-4976
Orebro Univ, Sch Hlth Sci, Orebro, Sweden.
Orebro Univ, Sch Hlth Sci, Orebro, Sweden.;Oslo Metropolitan Univ, Dept Primary & Secondary Teacher Educ, Oslo, Norway..
Swedish Sch Sport & Hlth Sci GIH, Stockholm, Sweden.;Inland Norway Univ Appl Sci, Fac Hlth & Social Sci, Elverum, Norway..
2024 (English)In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, ISSN 0031-3831, E-ISSN 1470-1170Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

The aim of this paper is to identify the dominant discourses of health and wellbeing that are offered in health education in Swedish schools. Issues of health and wellbeing are covered mainly in four school subjects in Sweden: physical education and health, home and consumer studies, biology, and social studies, and therefore, we interviewed teachers from those subjects to generate data. Six interrelated health discourses were identified from the data. All discourses were, however, also embedded within a health discourse with a comprehensive description of health as physical, psychological and social wellbeing. Results suggest that schools offer a Western and White discourse of health and that some content is overemphasised, and some is missing in relation to other non-dominant discourses of health and wellbeing.

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Routledge, 2024.
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Health education, Sweden, pragmatic discourse analysis, offer
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Educational Sciences Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-48704DOI: 10.1080/00313831.2024.2360905ISI: 001234488100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85194540711OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-48704DiVA, id: diva2:1867875
Available from: 2024-06-11 Created: 2024-06-11 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved

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