On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning

Begin.- What is a school?.- Thinking about learning - before during and after.- What do learners do? Where, when and/or how does learning play out? Some ideas Michael Crowhurst and Michael Emslie.- Designing for learning - shorter time frames.- Designing for learning - longer time frames.- Learner multiplicities and learning spaces and events - assessing a dance Michael Crowhurst and Michael Emslie.- Theory towards expansion - generativities multiplicities Michael Crowhurst and Michael Emslie.- Theory towards expansion - dialogue emergence combinations.- Conclusion - complex spaces, learning events and learners.- Notes on the pedagogical space that is the book after inhabiting it - dis/orientations.

Dr Michael Crowhurst teaches and co-ordinates a number of courses, conducts research, and supervises postgraduate students in the School of Education at RMIT University, Australia. He has a longstanding interest in education, and in the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and questioning (LGBTIQ) people in educative systems. He is also interested in thinking about the ways that education is constructed, and the impacts that education can have on different groups of people. His research interests include arts-based research, reflective practice and research, and autoethnographic research. He teaches pre-service teacher education courses, writes articles and other forms of academic literature, conducts small unfunded research projects, and supervises postgraduate students. He sees himself as a teacher who writes about what he teaches about.

Dr Michael Emslie is currently employed as a part-time lecturer in youth work at RMIT University, Australia. Michael's academic work builds on a 30-year career studying, practicing, researching, and teaching human services with a focus on youth work. Michael draws on this rich lived experience in his educative, research and scholarly work. Michael's teaching and research demonstrates a commitment to produce and share knowledge that will inspire imaginative and good practice in youth work and related fields. Michael coordinates and teaches many courses on youth work and youth studies. Michael's research covers areas of creative research methods, youth work studies, youth studies, LGBTQI+ young people and practitioners, and good practice in human services.