Introduction to Part 1 of Creative Adventures in Education and Human Services: Attunement in/to Being Adventurous
摘要
In this chapter we introduce and attune readers to the creative adventures that generated the book and that the book aims to inspire. We describe how the book connects with, draws on, and contributes to relevant traditions and flourishing areas of inquiry on arts, creativities, and innovative knowledge practices in education and human services research and practice. We introduce what we do in the book, which includes outlining the chapters and how this book, ‘Creative Adventures in Education and Human Services: Part 1’, connects with ‘Creative Adventures in Education and Human Services: Part 2 and Part 3’. We describe our research questions and methods, we outline what we mean by ‘creative adventures’, and we explain how we understand our ‘art-based research methods’ as ‘pedagogical spaces’ to inhabit, navigate, play with, play within, experiment with/in, and be productive and produced in and with. We explain our process of writing the book and we suggest to readers how they can use the book. This includes inviting readers to engage with the book as a research product to learn from and as a work of art to escape into and find consolation, experience as a tonic, be invigorated, get inspired, feel joy, enter a pleasurable flow, see what sparks, and venture, play, wonder, create, and generate their own creative adventures in education and human services. And we highlight what this book adds to the fields of creative educational and human services research and practice, which includes inspiring adventurous experimentation in thinking, lip syncing, dialogue on images, and making artworks for an exhibition to expand horizons for knowing and doing ethical and imaginative education and human service work.