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Managing the spatialities of arts-based practices with school children: an inter-disciplinary exploration of engagement, movement and well-being
Atkinson, S.; Rubidge, T.
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T. Rubidge
Abstract
Background and aims: The article aims to provoke new pathways within arts and health research that engage with the spatialities of arts-based interventions for building social and emotional well-being. We adopt an understanding of social and emotional well-being as a situated and relational effect rather than an individually acquired attribute. Methods: A social scientist and a choreographer both accompanied a mask-making workshop for exploring identity and body language with children aged 5 and 6 at a primary school in the North of England. Results: The collaboration generated an alternative emphasis on movement, rather than behaviour, as the focus of managing spatialities. Conclusions: The arts practitioner has to facilitate a balance of movements that, within the intended practices of the session, can be categorised as controlled, uncontrolled and improvised. This attention to movement enables a versatile conceptualisation of social and emotional well-being that is still situated and relational but also expressive of habituation and improvisation.
Citation
Atkinson, S., & Rubidge, T. (2013). Managing the spatialities of arts-based practices with school children: an inter-disciplinary exploration of engagement, movement and well-being. Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 5(1), 39-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2012.693938
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Jun 20, 2012 |
Publication Date | Feb 1, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Oct 24, 2011 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 4, 2012 |
Journal | Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice |
Print ISSN | 1753-3015 |
Electronic ISSN | 1753-3023 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 5 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 39-50 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2012.693938 |
Keywords | Space, Well-being, Movement, Practice, School children. |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Arts & Health on 20/07/2012, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17533015.2012.693938.
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