Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth

Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance

AvPeter Smagorinsky

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development

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Beskrivning

A social updraft provides cultural meditational means that include people in a current headed "upward," allowing people of atypical makeups to become fully involved in significant cultural activity that brings them a feeling of social belonging.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:416 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development
Antal sidor:301
Upplaga:19001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349714612

Utforska kategorier

Klinisk psykologi inom Medicin
Autism och Aspergers syndrom inom Medicin
Arbetsterapi inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Peter Smagorinsky is Distinguished Research Professor of English Education at The University of Georgia, USA. His research considers the notion of “mental health” in terms of cultivating the assets of people of anomalous frames of mind.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction .- Toward a Social Understanding of Mental Health .- The Problem of Adaptation in Socializing People of Difference .- Social Therapy and Family Play .- Shakespeare and Autism: Exploring Expression, Communication and Re-envisioning the Inclusive Community .- We Don't Want to Fit In: A Reflection on the Revolutionary Inclusive Theatre Practices of The Miracle Project and Actionplay for Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum .- The DisAbility Project: A Model for Autism-Specific Creativity and Civic Engagement within the Broader Context of Difference .- Curious Incidents: Pretend Play, Presence and Performance Pedagogies in Encounters with Autism .- The Collaborative Online Anime Community as Positive Social Updraft .- Composing Poetry and A Writer’s Identity: Positive Social Updrafts in a Community of Writers .- An Autistic Life, Animated through the World of Disney: A Loving Autoethnography.