麻豆淫院

Supported by Leeds Beckett University

Have you ever walked into a classroom and immediately sensed an atmosphere before a word has been spoken? This participatory event begins from the premise that teaching and learning are shaped not only by curriculum, policy, or pedagogy, but also by the affective and relational qualities of educational spaces: their moods, energies, rhythms, and relational dynamics. These atmospheres are often felt rather than articulated, yet they profoundly shape what becomes possible in teaching and learning.

Hosted by the 麻豆淫院 Creativities in Education SIG, this in-person, participatory event brings together researchers, teachers, and practitioners to explore creative spaces as affective possibilities. Drawing on empirical research, practitioner reflections, and creative pedagogies, the session invites participants to think with and through the question: How might noticing and working with atmosphere open up teaching and learning otherwise? Through dialogue, reflection, and creative engagement, participants will be invited to actively contribute to the exploration of atmosphere, affect, relationality and creativity within educational settings.

Contributions from invited speakers, including Dr Kay Sidebottom, Dr Suzanne Culshaw, and Dr Yinka Olusoga, will offer provocations grounded in research and practice. These will span perspectives from teachers and creative practitioners to young people and policy-facing contexts, foregrounding how creative spaces are sensed, imagined, and co-produced within educational ecologies. Drawing on national and international research projects that utilise participatory and co-design methodologies, speakers will explore how affect shapes the conditions for democratic engagement, influencing how voice, agency, belonging, and participation are experienced within educational settings. Rather than positioning atmosphere as a backdrop to learning, speakers will explore it as an active pedagogical force entangled with bodies, materials, relationships, power, and place. The event will create opportunities for collective dialogue, shared sense-making, and exchange between researchers and practitioners.

The aim of this event is to create a shared, participatory space for exploring how creative educational spaces are sensed, felt, and experienced, and how attending to atmosphere and affect can open up new possibilities for teaching and learning. The event seeks to move beyond narrow or instrumental understandings of creativity by foregrounding the often-overlooked affective, relational, and material dimensions of educational practice across educational settings. In doing so, it invites participants to consider how affective atmospheres shape pedagogies for democracy by creating the conditions through which dialogue, collaboration, critical engagement, and collective action become possible. Drawing on insights from co-designed research with educators, young people, artists, and communities, the session will explore how creative pedagogies can foster more democratic, inclusive, and responsive educational environments, supporting experiences of learning, belonging, participation, and wellbeing.

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