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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154814603321

Titolo

Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth : Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance / / edited by Peter Smagorinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-54797-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 301 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development

Disciplina

155.9

Soggetti

Community psychology

Environmental psychology

Social work

Health psychology

Applied theater

Cultural studies

Art education

Community and Environmental Psychology

Social Work

Health Psychology

Theatre and Performance Studies

Cultural Studies

Creativity and Arts Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction  -- Toward a Social Understanding of Mental Health  -- The Problem of Adaptation in Socializing People of Difference  -- Social Therapy and Family Play  -- Shakespeare and Autism: Exploring Expression, Communication and Re-envisioning the Inclusive Community  -- We Don't Want to Fit In: A Reflection on the Revolutionary Inclusive Theatre Practices of The Miracle Project and Actionplay for Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum  -- The DisAbility



Project: A Model for Autism-Specific Creativity and Civic Engagement within the Broader Context of Difference  -- Curious Incidents: Pretend Play, Presence and Performance Pedagogies in Encounters with Autism  -- The Collaborative Online Anime Community as Positive Social Updraft  -- Composing Poetry and A Writer’s Identity: Positive Social Updrafts in a Community of Writers  -- An Autistic Life, Animated through the World of Disney: A Loving Autoethnography. .

Sommario/riassunto

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.