This book shows how creative methods, drawing on innovative arts-based
and design-based approaches, can be employed in health education
contexts. It takes a very broad view of ‘health education’,
considering it as applying not only in school settings but across the
lifespan, and as including physical education and sexuality education
as well as public health campaigns, health activist initiatives and
programmes designed for training educators and health professionals.
The chapters outline a series of case studies contributed by leaders
in the field, describing projects using a wide variety of creative
methods conducted in a variety of global contexts. These include a
rich constellation of arts-based and design-based methods and
artefacts: sculptures, dance, walking and other somatic movement,
diaries, paintings, drawings, zines, poems and other creative writing,
body maps, collages, stories, films, photographs, theatre
performances, soundscapes, potions, rock gardens, brainstorming,
debates, secret ballots, murals and graffiti walls. There are no rules
or guidelines outlined in these contributions about ‘how to do’
creative approaches to health education. However, the methods in the
case studies the authors describe are explained in detail so that they
can be adopted or re-invented in other contexts. More importantly,
these contributions provide inspiration. They demonstrate what can be
done in the field of health education (however it is defined) to go
beyond the often stultifying and conventional boundaries it has set
for itself. Creative Approaches to Health Education demonstrates that
creative approaches can be used to inspire those working and teaching
in health education and their publics to think and do otherwise as
well as advance health education research and pedagogies into new,
exciting and provocative directions. It will be of interest to
postgraduate students and researchers in education and health-related
fields who want to explore and experiment with creative methods and
craftivism in applied inquiry.
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New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000476361
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter