- Title
- A gendered therapeutic learning landscape : responding creatively to a pandemic
- Creator
- Foley, Annette; Weadon, Helen; McDonough, Sharon; Taylor, Rachel
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/188162
- Identifier
- vital:17226
- Identifier
- ISSN:1443-1394 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Crafting has occupied the hands and minds of women over many centuries providing vital connections with cultural skills and with community. While the COVID-19 pandemic has isolated women in their homes, it has also provided opportunities for women to reconnect to crafting through virtual spaces. This paper draws on a thematic analysis of a focus group interview examining the experiences of regional women participating in a crafting group and identifies the ways in which they used craft to support their wellbeing. Drawing on the concept of therapeutic landscapes, the paper highlights that connection in a virtual craft group supports lifelong learning and wellbeing, brings women together in support through a community of women’s practice and facilitates opportunities for producing meaningful and commemorative quilting projects This finding has implications for a society experiencing unprecedented levels of stress, mental illness and anxiety about the future. © 2022, Adult Learning Australia. All rights reserved.
- Publisher
- Adult Learning Australia
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol. 62, no. 1 (2022), p. 8-30
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
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- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3903 Education systems; 3904 Specialist studies in education; COVID-19; Crafting; Lifelong learning; Therapeutic landscapes; Virtual spaces; Wellbeing; Women
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