Listening for Learning: Performing a Pedagogy of Sound and Listening

Whoosh, crunch, buzz, inhale, exhale . . . __Listening for Learning: Performing a Pedagogy of Sound and Listening__ presents sound, listening, and pedagogical interactions as performances that create relationships, ways of being and knowing, and that provide an opportunity for transformations of existing and taken-for-granted practices in the classroom. By using performative listening and performative writing this book presents fragments of sound and listening as sites of learning and knowledge production. The written fragments throughout this book are offered as performances that listen for and hear sound as a central feature to educational practices in terms of bodies, classrooms, and pedagogy. The goal in sharing this performance of listening is to create opportunities for recognition, to invite further listening in educational contexts, and to employ listening as an opportunity for transforming and re-imagining educational spaces and interactions. Cover 3 Contents 11 Acknowledgments 13 Introduction 15 Part 1: Listening to Bodies: Many Kinds of Sounds 33 1. Listening for Learning Bodies 43 2. Listening for Teaching Bodies 63 3. Listening and Sounding Bodies 83 Part 2: Listening from Learning Spaces 113 4. Listening to and from the Performance Lab 125 5. Listening for Reverberations 141 6. Listening and Sounding Spaces 159 Part 3: Listening to Pedagogy 177 7. Listening as Pedagogy 183 8. A Pedagogy of Sound 203 9. A Pedagogy of Listening 229 Index 255