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ERIC Number: EJ1469146
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0268-1153
EISSN: EISSN-1465-3648
Available Date: 2025-04-18
How Young Migrants Perceive School Health Education in Sweden
Health Education Research, v40 n3 cyaf012 2025
The aim of this paper is to provide insights into how young people who have been forced to migrate perceive school health education. Eighteen individuals aged 15-19 years (10 females, 8 males, average age 16.9 years) took part in either focus group interviews (n = 7) or individual interviews (n = 1). Participants were first presented with short scenarios concerning health education and were invited to use these scenarios as starting points to discuss their own experiences of health education. Participants were then presented with a collection of photographs that portrayed people displaying broad dimensions of health. Participants were asked to discuss the significance of the health dimensions in their lives, and describe how these dimensions were covered in school health education. Our findings suggest three broad perceptions of health education content: a moderately enthusiastic perception, a disengaged perception, and a marginalized perception. These findings: raise questions about whether the provision of health education matches the needs of young migrants, point to cultural differences in the way health topics are understood, and suggest that school health education might influence how migrants interact with health service providers.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway; 2School of Health Sciences, University of Örebro, Örebro, Orebro, 70182, Sweden; 3Department of Movement, Culture and Society, Section for Physical Education and Health, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH), Stockholm 11486, Sweden; 4School of Education, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Dr., Joondalup, Perth, Western Australia 6027, Australia