TY - CONF
T1 - Success factors for a physical literacy initiative in a Swedish upper secondary school for pupils with disabilities
AU - Bringsén, Åsa
AU - Nilsson Lindström, Petra
AU - Nilsson, Marie
N1 - the 10th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference, Sustainability and the impact on health and well-being
Halmstad, June 14–16 2023.
Sub-theme: Sustainable health in physical activity and sport
PY - 2023/6/16
Y1 - 2023/6/16
N2 - BackgroundAdolescents with disabilities are less physical active and have poorer health compared to others. Health Promotion (HP) including physical literacy was therefore implemented in a Swedish special upper secondary school. Implementing physical activity initiatives outside physical education is challenging, and little is known about school staffs’ experiences of HP with pupils with disabilities. The purpose of the study was therefor to explore the school staffs experience of the HP initiatives success factors.MethodsFive two-hour collegial reflection seminars were used for data-collection. 27 school staff (teachers and personal assistants) with varying age and gender participated. Seminars had preset questions related to the aim of the HP initiative and the explorative study. The group reflections were digitally recorded, transcribed, and analyzed through thematic analysis. The study was done in accordance with the Swedish Law of Research Ethics, SFS 2003:460.FindingsAn experience and reflection-based learning strategy, including individual adaptation, participation and influence functioned as prerequisites for the pupils’ development of physical literacy. Staffs’ participation and collaboration was also related to success, together with continuous documentation, analysis, and reflection.ConclusionParticipation and reflection are thereby considered the core of a successful HP initiative for physical literacy development of pupils with disabilities in a special upper secondary school. More research is however needed for further exploration of the complexity characterizing school HP in this type of setting.
AB - BackgroundAdolescents with disabilities are less physical active and have poorer health compared to others. Health Promotion (HP) including physical literacy was therefore implemented in a Swedish special upper secondary school. Implementing physical activity initiatives outside physical education is challenging, and little is known about school staffs’ experiences of HP with pupils with disabilities. The purpose of the study was therefor to explore the school staffs experience of the HP initiatives success factors.MethodsFive two-hour collegial reflection seminars were used for data-collection. 27 school staff (teachers and personal assistants) with varying age and gender participated. Seminars had preset questions related to the aim of the HP initiative and the explorative study. The group reflections were digitally recorded, transcribed, and analyzed through thematic analysis. The study was done in accordance with the Swedish Law of Research Ethics, SFS 2003:460.FindingsAn experience and reflection-based learning strategy, including individual adaptation, participation and influence functioned as prerequisites for the pupils’ development of physical literacy. Staffs’ participation and collaboration was also related to success, together with continuous documentation, analysis, and reflection.ConclusionParticipation and reflection are thereby considered the core of a successful HP initiative for physical literacy development of pupils with disabilities in a special upper secondary school. More research is however needed for further exploration of the complexity characterizing school HP in this type of setting.
KW - Physical literacy
KW - Adolescents
KW - Disabilities
KW - School health promotion
M3 - Oral presentation
T2 - Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference 2023
Y2 - 14 June 2023 through 16 June 2023
ER -