STAFF PROFILE
Dr Michael Crowhurst
Dr Michael Crowhurst teaches and co-ordinates a number of courses, conducts research and supervises post-graduate students in the School of Education.
Currently I teach mainly into the Masters of Teaching program.
I teach into and co-ordinate:
- TCHE 2679 Thinking About Learning
- TCHE 2680 Young People Education and Society
- TCHE 2665 Humanities Language and Culture
I am interested in pre-service teacher education - social theory - teaching - diversity - learning - social justice - reflective practice - arts-based practice - autoethnography - methods of analysis - (critical, poststructural, social) theory and practice
I currently supervise HDR students.
I am currently working on 2 research projects and towards the completion of 2 books:
- Before Between Beyond (A series of teacher focused research/essays on pedagogical spaces')
- A currently untitled project on the inhabitation of pedagogical spaces deploying arts-based and auto-ethnographic methods.
- B.Ed Secondary (Melbourne State College)
- B.Ed Studies (University of Melbourne)
- M.Ed (University of Melbourne)
- PhD (University of Melbourne). Thesis link
- I have worked for 10 years as a Secondary School teacher in Australian and in London.
- I have worked for 15 in the Welfare Sector (Melb City Mission; Salvation Army; Family Planning Vic; Headway Vic.
- I have worked as an academic (undertaking various roles) for 21 years.
- I started working in professional fields in 1984 and my involvement in sectors above includes overlaps.
Employment Snapshot
Secondary School Teacher
I have worked as a secondary school teacher (1984 - 1998)
Welfare Sector
I have worked in various capacities in the welfare sector (1991 - 2005) (Melbourne City Mission (intellectual disabilities focus - direct service provision); Salvation Army (aged care focus - case management, some report writing); Family Planning Victoria (GLBTIQ+ youth focused - state wide project worker, youth worker, community education and training, development of materials); Headway Victoria (ABI focused) - advocacy); Context (Unpaid activist work)
Academic
- Sessional Academic 2000 - 2005 (Deakin (tutor); Melbourne (tutor); RMIT (tutor)
- Academic 2006 - ongoing (part time since 2014) - Lecturer (now part time) RMIT University School of Education
- Crowhurst, M. (2022). Begin In: On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning, Springer, Singapore
- Crowhurst, M. (2022). What is a School? In: On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning, Springer, Singapore
- Crowhurst, M. (2022). Thinking About Learning: Before During and After Teaching and Learning Events In: On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning, Springer, Singapore
- Crowhurst, M.,Emslie, M. (2022). What Do Learners Do: Where, When and/or How Does Learning Play Out? Some Ideas In: On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning, Springer, Singapore
- Crowhurst, M. (2022). Designing for Learning Across Shorter Time Frames In: On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning, Springer, Singapore
- Crowhurst, M. (2022). Designing for Learning Across Longer Time Frames In: On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning, Springer, Singapore
- Crowhurst, M.,Emslie, M. (2022). Learner Multiplicities and Learning Spaces and Events: Assessing a Dance In: On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning, Springer, Singapore
- Crowhurst, M.,Emslie, M. (2022). Learning Expansivities: Linearities and Multiplicities In: On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning, Springer, Singapore
- Crowhurst, M. (2022). Theory Towards Expansion: Dialogue Emergence Combinations In: On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning, Springer, Singapore
- Crowhurst, M. (2022). A Conclusion: On Complex Spaces, Learning Events, Dis/equilibrium and Learners In: On Pedagogical Spaces, Multiplicity and Linearities and Learning, Springer, SIngapore
Michael has co-supervised the following PhD candidates through to successful completion.
- Dr Kristopher Redmond (2020 completion) PhD thesis - Reconceiving a culture of experimentation for teaching relative to early childhood education.
- Dr. Rachel Chapman (2019 completion) PhD thesis - An exploration of early childhood educators' views on children's gender identities.
- Dr. Esmerelda Bamblett (2010 completion) PhD project and exegesis - Gurranyin Borinya (On Eagle's Wings): Effecting Change for Koorie Youth.
Current Supervisions
Alexandra Ciaffaglione (PhD candidate) working on issues relating to gender, sexuality, masculinity and religious schools.
1 PhD Current Supervisions3 PhD Completions