The struggle for health! Health as text, discursive and social practice in PETE in Norway
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study contributes to knowledge on how health as educational content is construed in the new Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) in Norway. Moving between Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of text, discursive and social practice, we describe, interpret and explain discourses of health. In our analytical approach, we use intertextuality as a tool to explore how health is construed by being redefined and reconsidered from national policy to the newly formulated PETE study plans in Norway. Our findings describe a struggle for health playing out in the content of PETE through seven discourses, figuring through various exertions of power. Interpreting the struggle, we reveal a productive power figuring within discourse leading to the creation and the change of health. Finally, in explaining the struggle, we see traces of a democratic power figuring behind discourse, producing PETE professionals as autonomous actors in the policy implementation process in PETE in Norway.
Language: English
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4408031974