Object-based learning and object-based well-being

Abstract

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book describes the applications and processes by which students and staff at higher education institutions interact with objects via multisensory engagement. It explores the interconnections between learning and well-being, where objects are at the heart of the intersection, thus extending object-based learning to object-based well-being. The book offers a potentially new source of support to improve well-being amongst learners, by offering ideas, activities and programmes which have been shown to enhance well-being via active, experiential participation on the part of the learner. It draws together emergent thinking and practice around the growing relationship between art therapists and museums. The book provides a number of case studies and examples of how cultural and natural heritage objects can be employed within a learning context to effect well-being. It focuses on the use of objects for student well-being in their own right.

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