Arts-Based Pathways into Thinking by Michael Crowhurst & Michael Emslie

Author:Michael Crowhurst & Michael Emslie
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030375072
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Michael Emslie

Email: [email protected]

Keywords

Pre-beyond post-returnReading aloudCritical/collective/auto/ethnographicArts-based researchNon-normative identificationsPleasure

5.1 Triptych LHS1

5.1.1 Pre-beyond

Definition of Pre-beyond:The “reading aloud” change pedagogy is essentially a way of going about doing the work of moving from here to somewhere else and acknowledging that this type of movement will often entail tension because it is about asking people to entertain the idea of change.

I believe that one way to support this process is to begin by gaining agreement, through dialogue, that the direction of change is worthwhile and that once agreement has been reached on this to ask people to further agree to consciously “go to a place” where they entertain the idea of change. I believe that making explicit how a particular methodology might work towards making such change is a crucial part of this type of change work, and will increase the effectiveness of such work.

The “reading aloud” pedagogy produces (can produce) a space that is about change. It is a space that I imagine people might be invited to enter where they agree to take on, try out or inhabit different voices, different personas, and different ways of taking up space in the world. A space where they consciously agree to attempt to stall identifications and foreclosures. A space where they entertain the idea of change, of moving beyond where they are now, via the construction of generative “observational” spaces, where reflection and the collective and individual dialogues that follow may take place.

I am going to name such spaces – “Pre-Beyonds”. A “Pre-Beyond” is any space that people freely enter when they have a preparedness to change and where they understand that such a space might facilitate change. A pre-beyond is a space that is governed or grounded by or in where you are now but that offers the possibility that this may not be where you chose to remain. “Reading Aloud” I am arguing can be such a pre-beyond space. (Crowhurst 2009, p. 34)

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