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Resource: Making and gifting belonging: creative arts and people with learning disabilities. (School of the Environment, University of Dundee)

Making and gifting belonging: creative arts and people with learning disabilities.

Author: Edward Hall

Link: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1016.5557&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Description:

Creative arts are understood to be a mediator between positions of social exclusion and of inclusion for marginalized people and places, building self-confidence and strengthening social networks. Although there are undoubted benefits from involvement in creative arts, the author critiques the assumed shift from excluded to included positions.

Published by: School of the Environment, University of Dundee

Publication Date: 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Type: Programs/Projects