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Risky topics in health education: Enacted content when students with migration backgrounds meet Swedish health education
The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH), Stockholm, Sweden.
Örebro University, School of Health Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1097-8750
Örebro University, School of Health Sciences. Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4162-9844
Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia; Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden.
2025 (English)In: European Educational Research Journal, E-ISSN 1474-9041Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

School health educational content often entails different subject areas and a variety of topics that students are supposed to learn, and when taught in diverse classrooms, potentially positions students as at-risk. Using vignettes in interviews with migrant students in Sweden, the study focuses on views of the content of health education in relation to different ways that health as risk is enacted. Four aspects of risk were identified: (i) risk as content in health education and risky, including topics such as nutrition, stress, smoking, and pollution; (ii) risk as content in health education but not so risky, including topics such as health care and disease prevention; (iii) not-so-risky topics in health education, including topics such as physical activity, physical health, and social relations; and (iv) not risk as content in health education but still risky, including topics related to sex education. Teachers in health education, regardless of school subject, should be aware that some topics position students as being at-risk, other topics put students at-risk even if the topics are not about risk per se, and lastly, that risk can be something with pedagogical potential if it is used purposefully and educationally.

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Sage Publications, 2025.
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Risk, health, content, migrant students
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Educational Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-125031DOI: 10.1177/14749041251388801ISI: 001605965800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105020449601OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-125031DiVA, id: diva2:2014178
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Swedish Research Council, 2020-03309Available from: 2025-11-17 Created: 2025-11-17 Last updated: 2026-01-23Bibliographically approved

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