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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
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Health Education in Swedish Schools -- What's on Offer?
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, v69 n4 p871-883 2025
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.
Descriptors: Health Education, Foreign Countries, Well Being, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Physical Activity Level, Self Concept, Interpersonal Relationship, Intimacy, Mental Health, Risk, Democracy, Social Influences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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Author Affiliations: 1School of Education, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia; 2School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden; 3School of Health Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden; 4Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway; 5The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH), Stockholm, Sweden; 6Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway