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Level/category

Professional studies

Teaching language

Swedish

Type of course

Compulsory

Cycle/level of course

First

Recommended year of study

2

Total number of ECTS

5 cr

Competency aims

The aim of the course is that students:
- can understand what creativity is about and
how creative activities are used within the own
profession
- can understand their own creativity and its
possabilities and demands
- can understand the connection between
creativity, health and wellbeing
- can plan and administer creative activities
for individuals and groups

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is
expected to be able to:
- Identify and describe different ways of
creative expressions
- Recognize different theories on creativity,
for example The Flow Theory
- Identify and discuss the connection between
creativity, health and wellbeing
- Show how a creative activity affects the
experience of health and wellbeing
- Describe how sociocultural inspiration can
contrabute to empowerment processes
- professionally discuss the right to be active
from a creative perspective
- in action show the ability to administer a
production with creative parts, within a
certain area and lead it during a seminar. This
is also to be described and evaluated in a
report

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Communication and Learning for Participation and
Activity, The Human Developement from a Lifecircle
Perspective, Ethics and Professional Communication

Previous course names

Creativity and health

Additional information

All practical exercises, supervisions,
demonstations and workshops are mandatory
seminar is mandatory

Recommended or required reading

Brodin, E. & Carlsson, I. & Hoff, E. &
Rasulzada, F. (red.) 2014, Kreativitet ? teori
och praktik ur psykologiska perspektiv.
Stockholm: Liber

Csikszentmihalyi , M. 1996. Creativity: Flow
and the psychology of discovery and invention.
New York: Harper Collins

Grönlund,Erna. Alm, Annika. Hammarlund, Ingrid
2000. Konstnärliga terapier. Bild, dans och
musik i den läkande processen. Borås: Natur och
Kultur. S.31-49 ;55-108

Englund, Birgitta. 2004. Skapande och
kroppsbaserade komplementära terapier.
Lund:Studentlitteratur. 11-23 ; 25 - 57 ;137 -
170

Kurki, L. 2000. Sosiokulttuurinen innostaminen.
Tampere: Vastapaino.

Vygotsij, L. S. 1995. Fantasi och kreativitet i
barndomen. Göteborg: Daidalos.

Veresov, N. (2004). Zone of proximal
development: the hidden dimension? In A-L

Eriksson, M. Lilliesköld, J. 2004 Handbok för
mindre projekt. Stockholm:Liber

Fidler, S. Gail, Velde P. Beth. 1999.
Activities.Reality and Symbols. SLACK.

Nordberg, K. 2002 Projekthandboken;
Planera,leda och värdera projekt.Falköping:
Förlags AB Björnen

Seeskari, Daniela. 2004. Bildkonst som terapi
med barn och unga. En utvecklingsresurs.

Pitkälä Kaisu, Routsalo Pirkko, Blomqvist
Lisbeth (toim.) 2004. Ikääntyneiden
yksinäisyys. Taide- ja virikeryhmät
psykososiaalisena kuntoutuksena.
Helsinki:Vanhustyön keskusliitto.

Blomqvist Lisbeth & Hovila Elina. 2005. Yhdessä
elämyksiä arkeen - Kartoitusraportti. Helsinki:
Vanhustyön keskusliitto.

Study activities

  • Lectures - 6 hours
  • Individual- and group instruction - 5 hours
  • Practical exercises - 17 hours
  • Project- and production work/artistic activities - 60 hours
  • Individual studies - 39 hours
  • Seminars - 8 hours

Workload

  • Total workload of the course: 135 hours
  • Of which autonomous studies: 135 hours
  • Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Mode of Delivery

Participation in tuition

Assessment methods

  • Demonstrations and proficiency exams
  • Essays, reports, productions and portfolio

Teacher

  • Arell-Sundberg Marina
  • Werner Tove
  • Cederberg Arla

Examiner

Arell-Sundberg Marina

Home page of the course

Group size

No limit

Assignments valid until

Until date 2022-05-28

The timetable of the course

Kursens tidtabell presenteras separat på
Itslearning.

Assessment methods

  • 2022-01-28 - Demonstrations and presentations
  • 2022-02-14 - Reports and productions

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