A salutogenic strengths-based approach in practice - an illustration from a school in Sweden
Magnus Brolin
Mikael Quennerstedt
Ninitha Maivorsdotter
Ashley Casey
2134/33804
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/A_salutogenic_strengths-based_approach_in_practice_-_an_illustration_from_a_school_in_Sweden/9627284
Despite an extensive debate, and an openness of teachers to a strength-based approach to HPE, it is not always clear what a salutogenic strengths-based approach might look like in practice, at least not in the day-to-day work in schools. The purpose of this article is to present a salutogenic strengths-based school initiative in Sweden, and to identify health discourses in the school’s practice. An insider perspective is used to explore health in the school through Brookfield’s four lenses for exploring one’s own teaching practice. Two health discourses are identified: (1) an individual health discourse rooted in the fostering of personal development, and (2) a value based health discourse build up around social relations and the fostering of democratic values. The individual
health discourse can be understood as based in a pathogenic norm, and in the investigated school practice the
individual health discourse dominated the school health initiative despite the salutogenic intentions.
2018-07-09 13:19:28
Salutogenesis
Health education
Physical education
Practice
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified