Creative Flourish; The Effects of the Artifacts of Creativity Developmental Activity on Personal Wellbeing for Adult Learners

Dickerson, Teena

Creative Flourish; The Effects of the Artifacts of Creativity Developmental Activity on Personal Wellbeing for Adult Learners

dc.contributor.advisor	Poitras Pratt, Yvonne
dc.contributor.author	Dickerson, Teena
dc.contributor.committeemember	Groen, Janet
dc.contributor.committeemember	Kelly, Robert
dc.contributor.committeemember	Russell-Mayhew, Shelly
dc.contributor.committeemember	Conrad, Diane
dc.date	2023-11
dc.date.accessioned	2023-10-05T20:50:42Z
dc.date.available	2023-10-05T20:50:42Z
dc.date.issued	2023-10-03
dc.description.abstract	During the challenging isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals turned to a multitude of creative activities. Educators noted that engaging in creativity positively affected post-secondary learners’ wellbeing and resiliency during lockdowns and our triaged turn to online learning. Drawing on my experience as an artist and art educator while learning from and thinking through Indigenous principles, this arts-based research sought to understand how creativity developmental activity might affect wellbeing and contribute to the aims of reconciliation. This art-making research program examined the immediate and diachronic influences of artifacts of creative activity on wellbeing of adult learners at any level of creative capacity. These knowledge-based insights drew from the experiences of the participants and myself in the creative process and revealed creativity as a meaningful innate human characteristic with profound growth potential. In sum, educators could use creativity and the artifacts of the activity as an educational intervention to bolster wellbeing and sustain all learners through difficult times and the challenging topics of transformative learning in adult education.
dc.identifier.citation	Dickerson, T. (2023). Creative flourish; the effects of the artifacts of creativity developmental activity on personal wellbeing for adult learners (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/117333
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary
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dc.subject	creativity
dc.subject	wellbeing
dc.subject	flourish
dc.subject	transformative
dc.subject	adult education
dc.subject	arts-based
dc.subject	reconciliation
dc.subject	post-secondary
dc.subject.classification	Education--Adult and Continuing
dc.title	Creative Flourish; The Effects of the Artifacts of Creativity Developmental Activity on Personal Wellbeing for Adult Learners
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Education Graduate Program – Educational Research
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Education (EdD)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudent	I do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.