Peter Woods

Contact

• workRoom C86 Dearing Building
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• Peter.Woods@nottingham.ac.uk
• peterjwoods.com

Biography

Dr. Peter J. Woods is an Assistant Professor in Learning Sciences at the University of Nottingham. He received a PhD in Design, Informal, and Creative Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an Ed.M in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a BS in Secondary Education/Mathematics from Marquette University.

Teaching Summary

As an educator, I strongly believe in the value of both creative practice and critical engagement across all disciplines. This core belief leads to a simple yet powerful teaching philosophy: through… read more

Research Summary

I study what and how people learn through creative production, with a particular interest in the role of cultural contexts and situated technologies in shaping liberatory pedagogies and curricula. I… read more

Selected Publications

• WOODS, PETER J., 2023. The Pedagogy of Gear Touchers: Unearthing Modes of Teaching Within and Through DIY Venues: Teachers College Record Teachers College Record. 125(6), 85-109
• WOODS, PETER J., 2023. Conceptualizing Anti-Racist Pedagogies Within Experimental Music's Community of Practice: Adult Education Quarterly Adult Education Quarterly.
• WOODS, PETER J., 2023. Shitposting as public pedagogy: Curriculum Inquiry Curriculum Inquiry. 0(0), 1-22
• WOODS, PETER J., 2023. The abject pleasures of militarised noise: Culture, Theory and Critique Culture, Theory and Critique. 0(0), 1-16

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I am currently accepting new doctoral students. In particular, I am interested in working with critical and social justice oriented scholars broadly interested in the following:

• Informal and community oriented learning
• Learning and identity development in and through the arts
• Critical reinterpretations of culturally situated learning technologies
• Interdisciplinary work at the intersection of education, cultural studies, and other critically oriented disciplines or fields (e,g,, visual cultures, posthumanism, sound studies, more)
• The development of post-qualitative research methods

If you are interested in working together, please reach out to me at peter.woods@nottingham.ac.uk so we can develop a proposal together!

As an educator, I strongly believe in the value of both creative practice and critical engagement across all disciplines. This core belief leads to a simple yet powerful teaching philosophy: through the act of creating novel artifacts (both tangible and intangible) within social environments, students not only develop new knowledges but construct their own agency as individuals and intentionally engage with the socio-cultural world around them. I extend this philosophy to all areas of my own educative and creative practice, embedding this work into contexts as a diverse as high school math classrooms and DIY punk venues.

Current Research

I study what and how people learn through creative production, with a particular interest in the role of cultural contexts and situated technologies in shaping liberatory pedagogies and curricula. I conduct this work within multiple sites of research, including:

• Do-it-yourself (DIY) experimental/noise music scenes
• Arts-based data science classrooms
• Online teacher professional development platforms

In conducting this work, I explicitly take an interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from the learning sciences, cultural studies, curriculum studies, sound studies, and visual cultures research. In doing so, I extend my empirical work into theoretical contexts that involve explorations of noise, aesthetics, posthuman theories of learning, postqualitative research methods, and affect theory.

• WOODS, PETER J., 2023. The Pedagogy of Gear Touchers: Unearthing Modes of Teaching Within and Through DIY Venues: Teachers College Record Teachers College Record. 125(6), 85-109
• WOODS, PETER J., 2023. Conceptualizing Anti-Racist Pedagogies Within Experimental Music's Community of Practice: Adult Education Quarterly Adult Education Quarterly.
• WOODS, PETER J., 2023. Shitposting as public pedagogy: Curriculum Inquiry Curriculum Inquiry. 0(0), 1-22
• WOODS, PETER J., 2023. The abject pleasures of militarised noise: Culture, Theory and Critique Culture, Theory and Critique. 0(0), 1-16
• WOODS, PETER J., 2022. Aesthetics in the Eugenics Movement: A Critical Examination Journal of Aesthetic Education. 56(2), 56-77
• MATUK, CAMILLIA, DESPORTES, KAYLA, AMATO, ANNA, VACCA, RALPH, SILANDER, MEGAN, WOODS, PETER J. and TES, MARIAN, 2022. Tensions and synergies in arts-integrated data literacy instruction: Reflections on four classroom implementations British Journal of Educational Technology. 53(5), 1159-1178
• WOODS, PETER J., 2022. Learning to make noise: toward a process model of artistic practice within experimental music scenes Mind, Culture, and Activity. 29(2), 169-185
• WOODS, PETER J. and JONES, KARIS, 2022. Players chatter and dice clatter: exploring sonic power relations in posthuman game-based learning ecologies Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 0(0), 1-14
• WOODS, PETER J., 2021. Reimagining collaboration through the lens of the posthuman: Uncovering embodied learning in noise music Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. 18(1), 45-65
• WOODS, PETER J., 2021. The aesthetic pedagogies of DIY music Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. 43(4), 338-357
• WOODS, PETER J., 2019. Mapping Critical Anthropocene Discourses in Musical Artefacts: Whiteness, Absence, and the Intersecting “-Cenes” in Prurient’s The History of Aids Open Cultural Studies. 3(1), 541–552
• WOODS, PETER J., 2017. Ethics and practices in American DIY spaces Punk & Post-punk. 6(1), 63-80