| Description |
1 online resource (357 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Our Introduction to Creative Aging -- Section I Creatively Aging -- 1 Aging as Improvised Performance -- 2 John (Jack) Leo Roggenbeck's Life Through Art -- 3 Flowing Downhill, We Never Stop Creating -- Section II Meeting Older Adults' Unique Needs -- 4 Bridging Art, Aging, and Alzheimer's -- 5 The Color of Memory: A Case Study -- 6 A Critical View of Art Education's Responsibility to Disability and Aging |
|
Section III Intergenerational Art Education -- 7 Intergenerational Artmaking: Creating Connected Cultures -- 8 ART CART, a Transformative Journey: Assisting Aging Artists in Documenting Their Artistic Legacy -- 9 Digital Interactions and Intergenerational Connections -- Section IV Engaging Older Adults With Artworks and Objects -- 10 Meaningful Objects: Memory Stories for Older Adults -- 11 Lifelong Learning and Museums: An Exploration of Arts- and Object-Based Experiences for Older Adults -- 12 Art Museums and Creative Aging |
|
Section V In Our Own Voices: Older Adults as Learners, Makers, and Teachers -- 13 Curating a Life: Seeing Much More -- 14 Grandma, Let's Draw: Children's Art and Intergenerational Connections -- 15 The Long Hill: One Lifelong Learner's Meandering Path to the Doctorate in Art Education -- 16 Art + Culture + Elders -- 17 A Personal Narrative About Retirement: Continuing to Pursue an Active Professional and Creative Life -- Index |
| Summary |
This text explores how art education can address the needs of older adults as learners, makers, and teachers of art in formal and informal settings. It combines perspectives of educators, professors, therapists, and artists on what is meant by creative aging and the ways art education can support the health and well-being of this population |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Hoeptner Poling, Linda
|
|
Bourgault, Rébecca
|
|
Manifold, Marjorie Cohee
|
| ISBN |
9781040012260 |
|
1040012264 |
|
