Description
Book SynopsisThis 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, brainsto
Table of Contents
1.Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning: Bringing Creative Methods into Health Education 2. Materialising Mental Health: Design Approaches for Creative Engagement with Intangible Experience 3. Enacting a Feminist Pause: Interrupting Patriarchal Productivity in Higher Education 4. Arts-based Participatory Research in the Perinatal Period: Creativity, Representation, Identity and Methods 5. Body Mapping as a Feminist New Materialist Intra-vention: Moving-Learning with Embodied Confidence 6. Graffiti Walls: Arts-Based Mental Health Knowledge Translation with Young People in Secondary Schools 7. Re-assembling the Rules: Becoming Creative with Making ‘Youth Voice’ Matter in the Field of Relationships and Sexuality Education 8. Feminist Craftivist Collaging: Re-Mattering the Bad Affects of Advertising 9. Poetry and Health Education: Using the Poetic to Write the Body and Health 10. Health on the Move: Walking Interviews in Health and Wellbeing Research 11. Loved Objects and Beyond: Using Art Workshops in a Women’s Refuge 12. Children's Views on Digital Health in the Global South: Perspectives from Cross-National, Creative and Participatory Workshops
