Since the development of the welfare state, the Swedish school subject Health and Physical Education (HPE) has been regarded as an important site for public health work, and still assumes a central role in promoting the health of the coming generation. A specific type of health intervention, promoted by researchers in recent years, is the use of so-called exergames. In some countries, these fitness games are used as teaching aids in physical education classes and can be seen as examples of how public health issues and popular culture are shaping HPE in schools. The aim of the study reported in this paper is to examine which messages about health and body are offered, and how these are expressed in some of the fitness games used as teaching aids in school. The results of the study highlight the dangers of using exergames in the teaching of HPE in schools. The messages communicated by the games have a number of potentially harmful consequences, particularly with regard to the creation of specific health and bodily norms based on a measurable ideal. The use of this tool in education is thus far from value free, and the problems that might be solved when using the games are not necessarily the ones that education should privilege.

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为理想身体而竞争：在学校用作教具的运动游戏研究

自福利国家发展以来，瑞典学校的健康与体育（HPE）学科一直被视为公共卫生工作的重要场所，在促进下一代健康方面仍发挥着核心作用。近年来研究人员推广的一种特定类型的健康干预是使用所谓的运动游戏。在某些国家/地区，这些健身游戏被用作体育课的教具，可以看作是公共卫生问题和流行文化如何在学校塑造 HPE 的例子。本文报告的这项研究的目的是检查提供了哪些关于健康和身体的信息，以及这些信息如何在一些用作学校教具的健身游戏中表达。研究结果突出了在学校 HPE 教学中使用运动游戏的危险。游戏传达的信息具有许多潜在的有害后果，特别是在基于可衡量理想的特定健康和身体规范的创建方面。到目前为止，在教育中使用该工具远非无价值，使用游戏可能解决的问题不一定是教育应该优先考虑的问题。