Bøker av Michael Crowhurst

This book introduces a research method called 'auto-teach(er)/ing-focused research,' a research process that aims to document understandings generated by, and for the teacher when that teacher teaches or re-teaches a course. It demonstrates how this method is applied by the author/researcher within the pedagogical space that is the teaching of a course, one that has been taught numerous times by the author/researcher over many years. This book documents understandings about learning and teaching that have emerged within the pedagogical space that is the teaching of a course, and the pedagogical space that is the writing of a book. It explores the notion that pedagogical spaces are complex, and that subjects navigate and are produced within them in a multiplicity of ways. This book applies a research method that generates a knowledge product that research practitioners in a variety of settings might find useful to adopt or adapt.

Chapter 1: Introduction - pre-beyondChapter 2: The problem: Standardizations and normativitiesChapter 3: Knowing frames analysis: Multiple revealing/s of a work of art - to be read aloudChapter 4: Poetry as productive of persistent multiplicitiesChapter 5: Reading aloud to support non-normative identifications and affectivities - a triptychChapter 6: Immersion into a pleasurable flow that affords combinings and creativitiesChapter 7: Fable-ing/telling tales-ing/true story-ing /creative writing: A critical /collective /auto/ ethnographically informed process aiming to deepen analysis of what is and support imagining what might besChapter 8: A playful conclusion.

Stories are a valuable vehicle for practitioners in research, education, human services and the arts to enable individual and cultural change.