Article: Developing a Sustainable and Healthy Working Life with the Arts: The HeArtS Programme — A Research Dialogue with Creative Students.

26.05.2023
"In higher education the curriculum and teachers can provide a safe and encouraging environment with sufficient time, space, and resources to allow students to grow in their own creativity", Eva Bojner Horwitz and David Thyrén suggest in their study. Picture: Wikipedia, Baude Cordier: Chantilly Manuscript, License: CC BY-SA 3.0.

There are few studies on how to use art to prepare students, through higher education, to lead a sustainable and healthy working life. In order to enhance and develop the learning environments regarding creativity and health in higher academic education curricula, more studies are needed. Studies linking the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the agenda 2030 into higher education practice are also few. (Bojner Horwitz & Thyrén, 2022)

In order to explore these important aspects in the Arthewe project Eva Bojner Horwitz and David Thyrén conducted a study which aim was to gather information from creative music students to be able to build an educational platform for “arts & health” that facilitates a sustainable future working life for students.

The research questions were:

  • How do students from three different academic programs i.e.: 1) Contemporary Performance and Composition,  2) Music Education and  3) Music Therapy program, understand creativity and its relation to their sustainable healthy working life?
  • How can we use this knowledge when building a sustainable health platform in educational programs when preparing for a healthy working life?

Read the research article:

Bojner Horwitz, E. and Thyrén, D. (2022). Developing a Sustainable and Healthy Working Life with the Arts: The HeArtS Programme — A Research Dialogue with Creative Students. Creative Education Vol. 13 No. 5, May 31, 2022.
DOI: 10.4236/ce.2022.135105