Walking as Critical Inquiry: 7 (Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research)

This book is a transdisciplinary, international collection situated within a genealogy of experimental walking practices in the arts, arts-based research, and emergent walking practices in education. It brings together emerging cartographies of relation amongst walking practices ranging across arts-based, ecological, activist, decolonising, queer, critical and posthuman modes of inquiry. Its particular investment is in the proliferation of artful modes of inquiry that open up speculative practices and concepts of walking as an orientation for pedagogy, inquiry, and the everyday, resisting the gaze of privilege and the relentless commodification of human and nonhuman life processes. This is important work for the burgeoning demand for creative methodologies in the social sciences, and more specifically, for arts-based educational research.

Alexandra Lasczik is Professor, Arts and Education in the Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus. She is Research co- Leader of the Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education Research Cluster [SEAE]. Lexi is an expert educator with almost 40 years’ experience in the Visual Arts. She is also an artist whose chosen mediums are painting, photography, poetry, walking and creative writing. Travel, movement and migrations are central themes in Lexi’s work, as are the Arts and Arts-based Educational Research (ABER), particularly A/r/tography, C/a/rtography and Walkography. Lexi is an Artivist, committed to equity and social justice, and her spirited advocacy of a high-quality Arts education for all spans across her entire career. Lexi brings extensive teaching experience in the Arts in Australia and internationally and is a specialist with respect to the Visual Arts, teaching and learning,creative curriculum design and innovative pedagogies, with particular expertise in the engagement of at-risk youth through the Arts. Lexi brings this extensive experience and depth of understanding of the sector to her influential work in teacher education at Southern Cross University.

David Rousell is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Education at RMIT University, where he is a core member of the Creative Agency Lab and the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, and adjunct Research Fellow at Southern Cross University. He currently teaches and coordinates courses across the areas of art and design education, critical policy studies, and education futures. His courses bring a strong commitment to social justice and creative pedagogies to address the shifting landscapes of 21st century teaching and learning. His research combines theoretical work in affect and sensory studies, new materialisms, and post-humanismwith his professional background as an environmental artist, designer, and arts educator. David has published widely across the fields of environmental and sustainability education, arts education, childhood studies, media studies, and the philosophy of education. His work also contributes to methodological innovations in education and social research, focusing on the development of new methods that combine artistic, digital, and ethnographic approaches to social mapping.