Creating Wellbeing : The Role of Making Practices in Academic Contexts (Paperback)

Section 1: Foundations: Creative Practice as Wellbeing in Academia?1.?A call for change: Creative and making practices as essential practices to support wellbeing and the transformative potential of education.?Narelle Lemon, Sharon McDonough, and Mark Selkrig?2. Reviving the Creative Academic: Integrating the Creative Being and Values Flow Models to Promote Wellbeing in Higher Education?Cedomir Ignjatovic, Katie Beresford, and Margaret L. Kern 3.?Intersecting Identities and the Pracademic Paradigm?Cheri Flewell-Smith?4.?Comic-making as Wellbeing: Supporting International Students during Professional Experience?Fiona Boylan and Karen Nociti Section 2: Embodied Knowledge: Sensory and Physical Dimensions of Making?5.?Thinking Through the Ground: Art, Ecology, and Relational Wellbeing?Cassandra Tytler?6.?Exploring Experiences and Impacts of Creative Arts Therapies?Catherine Oxworth?7. Embodied Connections Conversation Series: Women's Conversations in Landscape and Climate through Collaborative Nature-based Photographic Practices?Alyson Agar?8. From Family Legacy to Care: An Autoethnographic Journey of Music and Memory?Simone Marino Section 3: Relational Making: Collaborative and Community Approaches 9.?Ex:Change ? Validating Conversations about Waste and Sustainability through Craft?Joanna Rucklidge and Wendy Ward 10.?New Ways of Workshopping: Research-based Theatre and Collaborative Creativity for Wellbeing?Richard Sallis, Chris Summers, and Prue Wales?11.?Filmmaking 'With' as a Creative Process that Uses Relational Ideas of Care?Catherine Gough-Brady?12. Providing a Voice: Using Creative Ethnographic Collaborative Methodologies to Explore and Represent Cultural Heritage in the Commonplace.?Maxine Beuret?Section 4: Identity and Transformation: Navigating Academic Life Through Making?13.?Moving through Liminal Space: Visual Journaling as a Creative Ritual and Spiritual Practice?Christopher M. Strickland and Jane E. Dalton?14. Creativity Under Constraint: The Academic Struggle and the Need for Systemic Reform?Bronte van der Hoorn?15. Loki's Tail?Karen Kenny?16. Navigating Academia with a Design Mindset: A Project of Ambiguity, Prototyping, and Failures
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