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A salutogenic strengths-based approach in practice - an illustration from a school in Sweden
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posted on 2018-07-09, 13:19 authored by Magnus Brolin, Mikael Quennerstedt, Ninitha Maivorsdotter, Ashley CaseyAshley CaseyDespite 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.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical EducationCitation
BROLIN, M. ...et al., 2018. A salutogenic strengths-based approach in practice - an illustration from a school in Sweden. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 9 (3), pp.237-252.Publisher
Taylor & Francis © The AuthorsVersion
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2018-06-26Publication date
2018Notes
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.ISSN
2574-2981eISSN
2574-299XPublisher version
Language
- en