1st Edition

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being Exploring Material Connections

Edited By Thomas Kador, Helen Chatterjee Copyright 2021
236 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being provides the first explicit analysis of the combined learning and well-being benefits of working with material culture and curated collections. Following on from the widely acclaimed Engaging the Senses , this volume explicitly explores the connection between the value of material culture for both learning and well-being. Bringing together experts and... Read more
  1. Introduction
  2. Helen Chatterjee and Thomas Kador

  3. Pedagogic Prescription: art and design teaching practice and object-based wellbeing
  4. Judy Willcocks

  5. Challenging the self in the museum: examining the development of professional identity and professional wellbeing for contrasting cohorts of clinical and public health students
  6. Kwang Meng Cham, Rosalind McDougall and Heather Gaunt

  7. Inclusive Memory: How to promote social inclusion, wellbeing and critical thinking skills within a museum context
  8. Antonella Poce, Maria Rosaria Re and Fulvia Strano

  9. Teaching colonial entanglements: indigenous art as a decolonising strategy
  10. Catherine Kevin and Fiona Salmon

  11. Developing Real Attachments through Virtual Means: examining relations between Cultural Belongings, Digital Connections and Community Well-being
  12. David M. Schaepe, Natasha Lyons, Kate Hennessy, Andy Phillips and Adrienne Chan

  13. Facilitating student engagement: supporting learning and wellbeing through university museum collections and spaces
  14. Thomas Kador, Linda Thomson and Helen Chatterjee

  15. Learning and Wellbeing through Objects and Collections in Art Psychotherapy
  16. Helen Jury

  17. The Happy Teacher: a Critical Exploration of the Joys of Object Based Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
  18. Cecilia Rodéhn

  19. Experiential and Object-Based Learning in Nature
  20. Ross Laird

  21. Getting to Grips with Difficult Histories in Medical Museums
  22. Manon Parry

  23. Preserved heritage: Stories and objects for mental health patients
  24. Bart DeNil and Pascal Janssens

  25. Object-Based Learning Training for Community Leaders

Julia Court

Biography

Thomas Kador is Senior Teaching Fellow on the Arts and Sciences (BASc) Programme at University College London, UK

Helen Chatterjee is Professor of Biology at University College London, UK