Skip to main content
  • Book
  • © 2020

Arts-Based Pathways into Thinking

Troubling Standardization/s, Enticing Multiplicities, Inhabiting Creative Imaginings

  • Explores creative research methods and novel knowledge practices
  • Uses the neoliberal university as a case study
  • Guides readers through the process of writing and using this book

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Arts-Based Educational Research (BABER)

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 64.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Introduction—Pre-beyond

    • Michael Crowhurst, Michael Emslie
    Pages 1-10
  3. The Problem: Standardizations and Normativities

    • Michael Crowhurst, Michael Emslie
    Pages 11-30
  4. Poetry as Productive of Persistent Multiplicities

    • Michael Crowhurst, Michael Emslie
    Pages 47-62
  5. A Playful Conclusion

    • Michael Crowhurst, Michael Emslie
    Pages 123-130
  6. Correction to: Arts-Based Pathways into Thinking

    • Michael Crowhurst, Michael Emslie
    Pages C1-C1

About this book

This book, based on a critical/collective/auto/ethnographic research project, describes an assemblage of theoretically informed, arts-based methods that aim to promote multiplicity and thinking. It explores multiplicities of knowing, sensing, doing and being, generated by analyzing knowing frames, poetry, reading aloud, fableing, playwriting and other inventive, playful and scholarly ways of working with experiences and stories. By offering engaging and inspiring strategies that can disturb standardizations and interrupt cultural normativities, the book sheds light on the conditions that might be present in cultural contexts that enable diversity and creativity. The research project on which this book is based originated from a contradictory set of conditions characterized on the one hand by a marked interest in creative research methods and novel knowledge practices and, on the other hand, by a widespread concern that we live in increasingly standardized times, featuring systems that specify objectives ahead of time, demand compliance and narrow the possibilities for human action. The book takes readers on an arts-based journey designed to enhance the opportunities for imaginative and ethical professional practice in education, human services and the arts.


Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, RMIT University, Bundoora, Australia

    Michael Crowhurst

  • Youth Work, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Michael Emslie

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Arts-Based Pathways into Thinking

  • Book Subtitle: Troubling Standardization/s, Enticing Multiplicities, Inhabiting Creative Imaginings

  • Authors: Michael Crowhurst, Michael Emslie

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Arts-Based Educational Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37507-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37506-5Published: 13 February 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37507-2Published: 12 February 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2524-7506

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-7514

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 129

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Critical Thinking, Learning & Instruction

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 64.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access