Walking as Critical Inquiry

1. Walking as a Critical Art of Inquiry.-  Common Worlding with Blasted Landscapes: Possibilities for Walking Research in Early Childhood Education.- The Listening Body: Sound walking, wearable technologies, and the creative potentials of a vibrational pedagogy.- Out of the Blue: A pedagogy of longing.- Discovering Lostness: Wandering and Getting Lost as Research Methodology.- Anecdotal Edges: Propositions from sketching the walk as a posthumanist research method.- Walking to create an environmental arts pedagogy of music.- Entangled Subjectivities in Muslim Daughters' Video Walks: Affective narratives of transitions from a Postcolonial Feminist Multisensory Ethnography.- Walking lutruwita / Tasmania: navigating place relationships through moving and making.- Walking in suriashi as a radical and critical art of inquiry.











 

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.

Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education, as well as the Research Leader of the 'Sustainability, Environment, the Arts in Education' (SEAE) Research Cluster. Amy has been recognised nationally and internationally for her teaching and research excellence. Amy's research focuses on the conceptualisation and articulation of environmental education and sustainability in childhood, schools, teacher education, higher education and community. She has explicit expertise in child-framed research methodologies. Amy has generated substantial external research income - including 2 Australian Research Council Discovery grants. She has led over 40 research