Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth
This edited volume explores the roles of socially-channeled play and performance in the developmental trajectories of young people who fall on the autism spectrum. The contributors offer possibilities for channels of activity through which youth on the autism spectrum may find acceptance, affirmation, and kinship with others. “Positive social updraft” characterizes the social channels through which people of difference might be swept up into broader cultural currents such that they feel valued, appreciated, and empowered. 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.
| ISBN: | 9781349714612 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Smagorinsky, Peter |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 02.10.2019 |
| Untertitel: | Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance |
| Schlagworte: | Art Education B Behavioral Science and Psychology Community Psychology Community and Environmental Psychology Creativity and Arts Education Cultural Studies Environmental Psychology Environmentalist thought & ideology Health psychology Social Work Teaching of a specific subject The arts Theater Theatre Studies Theatre and Performance Arts Theatre and Performance Studies biotechnology |
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.