| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 301 pages ): color illustrations. |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in play, performance, learning, and development |
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Palgrave studies in play, performance, learning, and development.
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| Bibliography |
Includes index. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Peter Smagorinsky ; Toward a social understanding of mental health / Peter Smagorinsky ; Adaptation as a reciprocal dynamic / Peter Smagorinsky -- Part II: Deliberately crafted activity settings. Social therapy and¡family play / Christine LaCerva ; Shakespeare and autism : reenvisioning expression, communication, and¡inclusive communities / Robin Post ; We don't want to fit in : a reflection on the revolutionary inclusive theater practices of the Miracle Project and actionplay for adolescents on the autism spectrum / Aaron Feinstein ; The DisAbility Project : a¡model for¡autism-Ưspecific creativity and¡civic engagement within the¡broader context of¡difference / Joan Lipkin, Marcy Epstein, Paula Heller, and Peter Smagorinsky ; Curious incidents : pretend play, presence, and performance pedagogies in encounters with autism / Nicola Shaughnessy -- Part III: Mainstream activity niches. The collaborative online anime community as positive social updraft / Leslie S. Cook and Peter Smagorinsky ; Composing poetry and a writers identity : positive social updrafts in a community of writers / Christine M. Dawson ; An autistic life, animated through the world of Disney : a loving autoethnography / Peter Smagorinsky. |
| Summary |
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 flow. A social updraft provides cultural meditational means that include people in a current headed "upward," allowing people of atypical makeups to become fully involved in significant cultural activity that brings them a feeling of social belonging. |
| Subject |
Autism spectrum disorders.
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Social interaction.
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Psychology.
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Community and Environmental Psychology.
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Social Work.
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Health Psychology.
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Theatre and Performance Studies.
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Cultural Studies.
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Creativity and Arts Education.
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PSYCHOLOGY / Reference
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Autism spectrum disorders. (OCoLC)fst01747518
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Social interaction. (OCoLC)fst01122562
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Smagorinsky, Peter, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Original 1137547960 9781137547965 (OCoLC)968132683 |
| ISBN |
9781137547972 (electronic bk.) |
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1137547979 (electronic bk.) |
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1137547960 |
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9781137547965 |
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