This book creatively and critically explores the figure of the flâneur and its place within educational scholarship. The flâneur is used as a generative metaphor and a prompt for engaging the unknown through embodied engagement, the politics of space, mindful walking and ritual. The chapters in this collection explore sensorial qualities of place and place-making, urban spaces and places, walking as relational practice, walking as ritual, thinking photographically, the creative and narrative qualities of flâneurial walking, and issues of power, gender, and class in research practices. In doing so, the editors and contributors examine how flâneurial walking can be viewed as a creative, relational, place-making practice. Engaging the flâneur as an influential and recurring historical figure allows and expands upon generative ways of thinking about educational inquiry. Furthermore, attending to the flâneur provides a way of provoking researchers to recognize and consider salient political issues that impact educational access and equity.

Explores the figure of the flâneur and its place within educational scholarship Examines how flâneurial walking can be viewed as a creative, relational, place-making practice Engages the flâneur as an influential and recurring historical figure

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Alexandra Lasczik Cutcher is Senior Lecturer in Arts and Education at Southern Cross University, Australia. Rita L. Irwin is Professor of Art Education and Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

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Chapter 1. (Not Idling at) the Flâneur in Indigenous Education: Towards Being and Becoming Community; Marc Higgins and Brooke Madden.- Chapter 2. Inquiry while Being in Relation: Flâneurial Walking as a Creative Research Method; Elsa Lenz Kothe.- Chapter 3. Revisiting The Visual Memoir Project: (Still) Searching for an Art of Memory; Blake Smith.- Chapter 4. Strolling along with Walter Benjamin's concept of the flâneur and thinking of art encounters in the museum; Marie-France Berard.- Chapter 5. Mindful Walking: Transforming Distant Web of Social Connections into Active Qualitative Empirical Materials from a Postmodern Flâneuse's Perspective; Yuha Jung.- Chapter 6. A/r/tographic Peripatetic Inquiry and the Flâneur; Alexandra Lasczik Cutcher and Rita L. Irwin.