Learning in a Writing Laboratory: For a Pedagogy of Love and Freedom

This book is an exploration of a collective writing laboratory designed to stimulate creativity and critical reflection for education professionals. The authors uncover how a writing lab can help educators develop their teaching practices and identities by means of critical-creative, collaborative, relational and arts-based methodologies. A theoretical insight into pedagogies of love and freedom illustrating how laboratory practices in education can become acts of daily care, the book will appeal to students and scholars of education, arts-based methods and creativity. Series Editor’s Preface Two Scholars, One Lab, 52 Weeks, Weekly Writing Tasks References Acknowledgements Praise for Learning in a Writing Laboratory Contents About the Authors List of Figures List of Tables The Basement: Introducing the Lab Building the Educator’s Training Room The Rules of the Game Practice Makes Perfect The Lab Becoming a Book Critical-Creative Space The Rooms in Our Home References The Kitchen: Practical Exercises (Prompts) Where the Ingredients Blend Antipasti: Warm Up The Coffee Meditation Your Daily Practice The Writers’ Café—Design Task Design a Writing Course Writing as Business Foreplay Walk and Talk + Poetry You as a Learner Debriefing Your Lab 50 Ways to Entitle a Book Establishing the Lab Establishing the Expanded Lab First Course: Education The Menu Letter to the Guy in the Back Row The Final Lecture The Perfect Breakfast Real Letters Best Practice in Teaching Teachers’ Eutopia Teacher’s High Lecture Night Second Course: Free Exploration What Happens Next? Write a Comedy Found Poetry Time, Pace and Rhythm Write an Abstract The Box of Love Manifesto The Plank Stories Superheroes Public Speaking Underwear Stories Side Dish: Multimedia Draw Your Teaching Labels in the Museum Crafting Real Letters Collages Who Are You on Stage? Performing Public Speaking The Leader in You Festival Inspiration Stand-Up Comedy Dessert: Relational Development The Dream 50 Ways to Keep Your Friend Soldier’s Mission Soldier’s Mission Report Good and Bad Listening Alone but Not Lonely The First 20 Seconds of Live Encounter with Co-author Design a Surprise for Your Students Responses to Learners’ Stories Your Will References Room with a View: The Bedroom—Modelling of Responses Looking Inside the Lab View on the Topic Antipasti: Warm Up Modelling The Coffee Meditation Spanish Blend My Heart Beating in a Cup Modelling Your Daily Practice Yoga Practice Pull Ups View on the Topic First Course: Education Modelling Letter to the Guy in the Back Row Neapolitan Stand-Up The Guy in the Back Row Modelling The Perfect Breakfast The Warm Bed of Your Lover The Red Sunshine View on the Topic Second Course: Free Exploration Modelling Time, Pace and Rhythm The Cocktail Party Rhythm Visiting Death Learning to Live Modelling Public Speaking Rocking the Funeral The Michelin Star View on the Topic Side Dish: Multimedia Modelling Labels in the Museum Tatiana’s Museum The Kris Museum Modelling Who Are You on Stage? I Have a Dream and I Am Your Teacher Kris, Who Are You on Stage? View on the Topic Dessert: Relational Development Modelling 50 Ways to Keep Your Friend Kiss and Make Up 50 Ways to Keep Your Friend Modelling Good and Bad Listening My Body, Leadership and Silence The Craft, Science and Art of Listening References The Library: Theories Paper Friends on the Bookshelf Writing Letter Writing Writing as Culturally Learned Writing as a Mediating Activity Writing as a Process of Experience Construction Communities of (Writing) Practice The Writers’ Lab as a Material-Discursive Interaction Speech Genres in Dialogue Writing as Collaborative What Has Writing Got to Do with the Lab? Education The Need of Learning from Experience The Desire to Play with Education Exploring Education Eutopia Education is an Action (of Love) Acts of Care in the Classroom What Has Education Got to Do with the Lab? Creativity and Criticality The Myth of Creative Genius Fearing (Use-Less) Creativity Creative Ecologies Distributed and Participatory Creativity Critical and Relational Creativity What Has Creativity Got to Do with the Lab? Arts-Based Learning Knowing Through the Arts Rethinking Theory Through the Arts Rebellious (Re)search Performativity What Have the Arts Got to Do with the Lab? Relation Relation in Education The Twofold Processes of Communication Relationality in Dialogues Dialogue Through Writing Relational Self-Efficacy The Relational Will The Relationship Between Will, Creativity and Art Encounters with the Muses What Has Relation Got to Do with the Lab? References The Living Room: Encounters Getting Together in Conversations Relational Becomings I Need a You to Become Social Drama Case: The Staged Cocktail Party Embodied Conversations Arts-Based Conversations Collective Imagination and the Vision of What Is Possible Sensuous Knowledging and Learning Rebellious Conversations/We Can Do It Differently Case: Non-verbal Conversations Through Visual Arts Mirrors into the Educator’s Profession Reflection Reflexivity Case: Holistic Debriefing The Material Affectivity of Teaching and Learning The (Emotional) Gap Between Action and Reflection The Role of Affects in Teaching The ‘Stickiness’ of Affects in Education The Embodiedness of Affects Material Frames for an Affective Education Case: The Last Conversation References The Rooftop: The Pedagogy of Love and Freedom The Nature(s) of Love Platonic Love Victorian Love The Biology of Love Love Reframed The Crisis of Care Affective Methodologies The Care in Care Aesthetics Eros as Passion in/for Education Love for the World and for the People Love and Freedom Love as Autonomy Love Through Recognition Love Through Reconciliation Amor Mundi References The Garden: Plotting for Possible Futures Homing, Gardening and Flourishing The Bench: Being and Reflecting Together The Pedagogy of the Gift Crafting the Gift Responding to the Gift Tatiana’s Ways of Being Affected Kristian’s Ways of Being Affected Sharing the Experience of the Gift Theoretical Implications Practical Implications To Make New Beginnings References General References Index