From transcendence to general maintenance: Exploring the creativity and wellbeing dynamic in higher education
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Authors | Hughes, G. and Wilson, Chris |
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Abstract | The issue of wellbeing in higher education has been an increasing area of discourse and action in recent years, driven considerably by in-creasing rates of recorded mental illness and apparent reductions in student resilience. With increasing recognition of the wellbeing challenge faced by the whole academic community, it is now incumbent on universities to move beyond deficit model support frameworks, to balance the necessary and essential challenge of study in higher education with the need for therapeutic effective interventions capable of engaging students and staff. There is a growing body of evidence relating to the health benefits of participation with creative activity, and engagement with creative experiences. This chapter presents a focused review of the creativity-wellbeing-learning dynamic to explore the possible opportunities for a move beyond the mere provision of supplementary student support. Given the increasing significance attached to creativity as a graduate attribute, the answer to the wellbeing challenge may be to question the notion of academic and therapeutic as being mutually ex-clusive ideals. Shouldn’t effective academic challenge improve wellbeing? Might the challenge actually provide the solution? |
Keywords | Student wellbeing; Creativity; Higher education |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Knowledge, Innovation & Enterprise |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621907 |
hdl:10545/621907 | |
ISBN | 9781859242179 |
File | File Access Level Controlled |
File | File Access Level Open |
Publication dates | Oct 2017 |
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Deposited | 25 Oct 2017, 16:01 |
Contributors | University of Derby |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/93847/from-transcendence-to-general-maintenance-exploring-the-creativity-and-wellbeing-dynamic-in-higher-education
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