RESOURCES
…to develop Norm-Consciousness in Health Education. It has been said that the teaching of norm-critical thinking and theory is particularly lacking in Health Education. Utilizing different learning approaches that elaborates upon and promote Norm-Consciousness in Health needs to be genuinely discussed in a process that necessitates a fostering of collective mindsets of norm-consciousness, which also involve the faculty and partners in the Health Sector.
Norm criticism, pedagogy, and Health Education
Bell, B. (2021). White dominance in nursing education: A target for anti‐racist efforts. Nursing Inquiry, 28(1), e12379.
Bromseth, J., & Sörensdotter, R. (2014). Norm-critical pedagogy. Gender studies education and pedagogy, 24, 24-32.
Castillo, I. A., Tengelin, E., Arveklev, S. H., & Dahlborg, E. (2023). When nursing education becomes political: Norm‐critical perspectives in a campus‐based clinical learning environment. Nursing Inquiry, e12597.
Crawford, J., Kramer, M., Ristock, J. and Schultz, A.S.H. (2025), “It’s Very Cisnormatively Structured”: An Interpretive Description of Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Experiences of Gender Inclusive and Affirming Practices. Nursing Inquiry, 32: e12701. https://doi-org.ezproxy.server.hv.se/10.1111/nin.12701
Dahlborg, E., Castillo, I.A. and Tengelin, E. (2025), When Academic Freedom Becomes Dangerous: Nursing in an Age of Censorship. Nursing Inquiry, 32: e70044. https://doi-org.ezproxy.server.hv.se/10.1111/nin.70044
Melino, K., Bell, B. and Freborg, K. (2025), Deconstructing Professionalism as Code for White (Power): Authenticity as Resistance in Nursing. Nursing Philosophy, 26: e70002. https://doi-org.ezproxy.server.hv.se/10.1111/nup.70002
Nye, C. M., Canales, M. K., & Somayaji, D. (2023). Exposing othering in nursing education praxis. Nursing Inquiry, 30(3), e12539.
Nye, Caitlin M. MSN; Tengelin, Ellinor PhD; Somayaji, Darryl PhD. Developing a Theory of Norm-Criticism in Nursing Education. Advances in Nursing Science 46(2):p E66-E79, April/June 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000440
Pelters, B. (2018). On mountains and prophets: Targeting majorities to support minorities by using norm-critics in health education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 13(sup1), 1522203.
Tengelin, E., & Dahlborg‐Lyckhage, E. (2017). Discourses with potential to disrupt traditional nursing education: Nursing teachers’ talk about norm‐critical competence. Nursing Inquiry, 24(1), e12166.
Tengelin, E., Bülow, P. H., Berndtsson, I., & Lyckhage, E. D. (2019). Norm-critical potential in undergraduate nursing education curricula: a document analysis. Advances in Nursing Science, 42(2), E24-E37.
Tengelin, E., Dahlborg, E., Berndtsson, I., & Bülow, P. H. (2020). From political correctness to reflexivity: A norm‐critical perspective on nursing education. Nursing Inquiry, 27(3), e12344.
Norm consciousness and Health Education
Arveklev SH, Castillo IA, Skalná M, et al. A call for norm-consciousness as points of departure in nursing education. Nordic Journal of Nursing Research. 2025;45. doi:10.1177/20571585251332186
Castillo, I. A., Dahlborg, E., Arveklev, S. H., & Tengelin, E. (2024). Norm-Critical Teaching in Practice? An Observational Study of a Campus-Based Clinical Learning Environment in Nursing Education. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 54(2), 170-197. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912416241305125
Einhellig, K., Gryskiewicz, C., & Hummel, F. (2016). Social justice in nursing education: leap into action. J Nurs Care, 5(374), 2167-1168.
Hatcher, A., de Wet, J., Bonell, C. P., Strange, V., Phetla, G., Proynk, P. M., … & Hargreaves, J. R. (2011). Promoting critical consciousness and social mobilization in HIV/AIDS programmes: lessons and curricular tools from a South African intervention. Health Education Research, 26(3), 542-555.
Holmgren, J., & Eriksson, H. (2023). Towards a global nursing curriculum for the 21st century: Rethinking health through the lens of a sustainability paradigm–a contemporary issue. Nordic journal of nursing research, 43(3-4), 20571585231209973.
Tengelin, E., Cliffordson, C., Dahlborg, E., & Berndtsson, I. (2019). Constructing the Norm-critical awareness scale: A scale for use in educational contexts promoting awareness of prejudice, discrimination, and marginalisation. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 38(6), 652-667.
Norm-creativity and Education
Duhamel, K. V. (2016). Bringing us back to our creative senses: Fostering creativity in graduate-level nursing education: A literary review. Nurse education today, 45, 51-54.
Nilsson, Å. W., & Jahnke, M. (2018). Tactics for norm-creative innovation. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 4(4), 375-391.
Nilsson, Å. W., & Jahnke, M. (2018). Tactics for norm-creative innovation. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 4(4), 375-391.
Tham, J. C. K. (2019, October). Feminist design thinking: A norm-creative approach to communication design. In Proceedings of the 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication (pp. 1-3).
Öhrling, T. E., Normark, J., & Nilsson, Å. W. (2018). NORM CREATIVITY IN STUDENT DESIGN PROJECTS-ONE APPROACH OF CREATING SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES. In DS 93: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2018), Dyson School of Engineering, Imperial College, London. 6th-7th September 2018 (pp. 344-349).
Workshop Materials for Reflective Practice
This section provides resources for anyone interested in facilitating workshops or integrating reflective exercises into their teaching.
The material includes: Workshop Templates – Ready-to-use formats for organizing reflective sessions with students. Reflective Exercises – A selection of examples developed in collaboration with Silesian University in Opava, designed to stimulate critical thinking and personal insight among students.
These tools are intended to support educators in fostering meaningful dialogue and reflection around themes central to the Breaking Fences project. If you want to try, please see further instructions and material here:
Aesthetic learning, lab models and innovation
Christensen, J. F., Mahler, R., & Teilmann-Lock, S. (2021). GenderLAB: Norm-critical design thinking for gender equality and diversity. Organization, 28(6), 1036-1048.
Fuenfschilling, L., Paxling, L., & Perez Vico, E. (2022). Norm-critical innovation as a way forward for responsible innovation? Evidence from a Swedish innovation policy program. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 9(3), 371-397.
Rieger, K. & Chernomas, W. (2013). Arts-Based Learning: Analysis of the Concept for Nursing Education. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 10(1), 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijnes-2012-0034
Uhrmacher, P. B. (2009). Toward a theory of aesthetic learning experiences. Curriculum Inquiry, 39(5), 613-636.
