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Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance
Peter Smagorinsky (Ed.)
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Description for Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance
Hardback. Editor(s): Smagorinsky, Peter. Series: Palgrave Studies in Play, Performance, Learning, and Development. Num Pages: 301 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, 6 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: MJNA; MMJ; MQTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
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. These currents not only have an upward motion themselves, they also catch other elements in their draft and carry them up in their ... Read more
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. These currents not only have an upward motion themselves, they also catch other elements in their draft and carry them up in their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Palgrave Studies in Play, Performance, Learning, and Development
Condition
New
Weight
540g
Number of Pages
301
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137547965
SKU
V9781137547965
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99-15
About Peter Smagorinsky (Ed.)
Peter Smagorinsky is Distinguished Research Professor of English Education at The University of Georgia, USA. His research considers the notion of mental health in terms of cultivating the assets of people of anomalous frames of mind.
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