Atkinson, S. and Robson, M. (2012) 'Arts and health as a practice of liminality : managing the spaces of transformation for social and emotional wellbeing with primary school children.', Health & place., 18 (6). pp. 1348-1355.
Abstract
Intervention to enhance wellbeing through participation in the creative arts has a transformative potential, but the spatialities to this are poorly theorised. The paper examines arts-based interventions in two primary schools in which small groups of children are taken out of their everyday classrooms to participate in weekly sessions. The paper argues that such intervention is usefully seen as a practice of liminality, a distinct time and space that needs careful management to realise a transformative potential. Such management involves negotiating multiple sources of tension to balance different modes of power, forms of art practices and permeability of the liminal time-space.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Creative arts, Wellbeing, Liminality, Primary schools, Practice. |
| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (230Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.06.017 |
| Publisher statement: | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Health & place. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Health & place, 18/6, 2012, 10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.06.017 |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 14 November 2012 |
| Date of first online publication: | November 2012 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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