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The struggle for health! Health as text, discursive and social practice in PETE in Norway.

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Title: The struggle for health! Health as text, discursive and social practice in PETE in Norway.
Authors: Amundsen, Marte1 (AUTHOR) marte.amundsen@inn.no, Mordal Moen, Kjersti1 (AUTHOR), Quennerstedt, Mikael2 (AUTHOR)
Source: Curriculum Studies in Health & Physical Education. May2026, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p133-148. 16p.
Subject Terms: *Health education, *Social norms, *Physical education teachers, *Policy sciences, Discursive practices, Intertextuality, Power (Social sciences)
Geographic Terms: Norway
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:25742981
DOI:10.1080/25742981.2025.2466518