Dr Michael Crowhurst

I have a long standing interest in education and in the experiences of LGBTIQ people in educative systems. I am interested in thinking about the ways that education is constructed and the impacts that education can have on different groups of people. I am also interested in arts-based research, reflective practice and research, autoethnographic research. I teach into pre-service teacher education courses, write articles and so forth,  conduct small unfunded research projects, and supervise post-graduate students. At this point in time I see myself as a teacher who writes (see interests for a list of publications) about what he teaches about. I do paid work on a part time basis and also work on unfunded projects.

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:

1. Before Between Beyond (A series of teacher focused research/essays on pedagogical spaces')
2. A currently untitled project on the inhabitation of pedagogical spaces deploying arts-based and auto-ethnographic methods.

Monday - Wednesday (9-5) Email is the best way to contact me

• 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