Writing+ourselves+out+west

**Writing ourselves out west: Curriculum leakages,** **creative endeavors and pedagogical encounters** Susanne Gannon, Associate Professor, University of Western Sydney s.gannon@uws.edu.au]



** Keywords: ** ‘leaky’ curriculum, critical engagement, creative pedagogies, Deleuzian philosophy

** Track: ** Student development and learning

** Format: ** Research paper


 * Date & time: ** Friday 3:20-4:30
 * Location: ** Salon 6

**Summary:** This paper rereads a service learning pedagogy for pre-service secondary teachers in western Sydney as a ‘leaky’ curriculum that allows for slippages beyond conventional curriculum silos in schooling and teacher education, and provokes productive and unpredictable pedagogical encounters. Informed by Deleuzian philosophy and new work on place pedagogies and curriculum (Davies & Gannon, 2009, Somerville et al., 2011; Wallin, 2010), it recognises movements in the subjectivities of beginning teachers as they work with young people in ways that enable new ways of thinking about students, schooling, themselves and the places in which they are likely to work.

Within a larger service learning program, two discrete sites of pre-service teacher engagement with young people are examined: an after school visual arts enrichment program and a creative writing extension program. At a time when the creative arts are at risk of being squeezed out of standard curricula, these are places where individuality may be championed and unpredictable, creative and life-affirming directions can be explored. E ach individual is understood as unique and different from one another, and as simultaneously embedded in complex networks of relationality. The paper concludes that despite pressure to narrow and regulate teacher education, service learning opportunities should be central to this training.

**References:** Davies, B., & Gannon, S. (2009). //Pedagogical Encounters.// New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Deleuze, G. (1995) //Negotiations 1972-1993//. New York: Columbia University Press.

Somerville, M., Davies, B., Power, K., Gannon, S. & de Carteret, P. (2011). //Place pedagogy change.// Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense.

Wallin, J. J. (2010) //A Deleuzian approach to curriculum: Essays on a pedagogical life.// New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.

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