This article advances a manifesto for posthuman creativity studies that highlights the emergent, collective, and ecological aspects of creativity, offering propositions problematize any individualist or human-exceptionalist approach to field. We attend range extra/ordinary affects, encounters, modalities expanding creative possibilities in 21st century. Beginning with recognition must be rewilded from its current capture economic educational discourses, we argue more sustainable...

This chapter explores the urgent relevance of posthumanist theory and practice for democratizing creative educational experiences in 21st-century schools, universities, informal learning environments. Posthumanism challenges myopic centering human education an age climate change, artificial intelligence, zoonotic disease, where nonhuman agencies are intricately imbricated cultures lives. Using a cartographic methodology, critically maps key theories debates creativity studies across four...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) teachers are a marginalised group that historically have been absent from research on sexuality schooling. Rather, much in the field has focused upon experiences of same sex attracted increasingly, gender diverse young people schools, as well delivery education. Up until recently, very little carried out explicitly addresses LGBTQ teachers, particularly within Australian context. This article focuses key issues arising semi-structured...

This article argues that African women migrants in Australia are increasingly enrolling and successfully completing tertiary study, usually at high emotional financial cost. While this qualitative study has shown both refugee-background non-refugee Australian women’s enrolment higher education is enabling new forms of participation belonging resettlement, it continues to challenge the more traditional cultural roles identities. these gendered negotiations noted only cursorily (if all) within...

This article draws upon the insights of 75 Occupy activists from Toronto and across United States interviewed as part 3-year study ‘Social Media in Hands Young Citizens’. highlights three major roles adopted by women so-called leaderless, horizontally structured movement – both within offline, face-to-face General Assembly meetings held during encampments online spaces Facebook pages, Web sites, affinity groups, working committees. As key participants movement, used social technologies such...

Schools' administrators and teachers feel the necessity to apply creative education within their learning environments, despite grappling with understandings of what creativity is how best can foster it in students. This qualitative international study spanning USA, Canada, Singapore, Australia investigates teachers' perceptions regarding pedagogies that enhance creativity. Analyzing reflections on classroom pedagogy school practice, this explores ways nurture critical thinking...

How does this pandemic moment help us to think about the relationships between self and other, or humans planet? are people making sense of COVID-19 in their everyday lives, both as a local intimate occurrence with microscopic properties, planetary-scale event potentially massive outcomes? In paper we describe our approach large-scale, still-ongoing experiment involving more than 150 from 26 countries. Grounded autoethnography practice critical pedagogy, offered 21 days guided prompts for...

Recognition of human rights on the basis sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status by United Nations has led to development new policies concerning homophobia transphobia in educational contexts. This paper examines Australian education impacting gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer (GLBTIQ) teachers. A policy review uncovered a range protections for GLBTIQ teachers contexts such as State Victoria, alongside restrictions. Experiences discussed pilot study data from...

Traditional ties between "arts" education (that is, discipline-based arts subjects and activities in schools) an emergent notion of "creativity" educational discourses policy documents are loosening, with implications for both. While creativity seems to be on the ascendant, may not as fortunate; creative skills capacities emerging a central focus twenty-first century learning, while continue fight room overcrowded curriculum. In this article, we examine some policy-level shifts towards its...

This study investigates and compares elements of creativity in secondary schools classrooms Australia Singapore. Statistical analysis qualitative investigation teacher, student leadership perceptions the emergence, fostering absence school learning environments is explored. large-scale international (n=717) reveals impact teacher behaviours, teaching approaches that promote impede enhancement creative, critical, innovative thinking, organisation, curriculum structures. Implications for...

The idea of doing a self-guided series prompts for largescale project in the midst global pandemic emerged as solution to twin problems distance and distraction. goal “21-day autoethnography challenge” set was build embodied sensibilities toward material we study, practice autoethnographic forms writing analysis, transform personal experiences through this COVID-19 moment into critical understanding scale, sensemaking, relationality humans, nonhumans, planet. This article showcases...

Abstract This paper draws together academic and policy literature around the value of a culturally, linguistically racially diverse (CLRD) teacher workforce in Australia. While Australia’s population is becoming more diverse, teaching significantly less so, with far fewer teachers born overseas and/or speaking language other than English at home. seeks to address some reasons for this lack diversity, lived experiences from backgrounds, including unique contributions CLRD make their school...

AbstractUsing collaborative performance ethnography in community- and school-based settings, sex education has the potential to challenge at-risk narratives for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex queer (LGBTIQ) youth. This paper problematises youth-led drama project Epic Queer test 'queer' of youth-driven initiatives at school community level, reject singularity victimised 'at-risk' so pervasive internationally about By drawing on It Gets Better Project as an example widespread...

This article problematises the uptake and use of digital technologies by migrant refugee-background young people, through lens a site-based arts pedagogy program, Culture Shack (CS), in Melbourne, Australia. It argues that online pedagogies including animation, Facebook, photoshop, mobile phones Youtube can be used effectively for bridging cultural, gender educational gaps, if ways which they are applied engage with communication preferences discourses culture, ethnicity media technology –...