Creative Approaches to Health Education - New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Critical Studies in Health and Education
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2022
Editors:	Deborah Lupton • Deana Leahy
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-64834-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-64834-2
Barcode:	9780367648343

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