TY - JOUR AU - Drew, Lara PY - 2014/11/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Embodied Learning Processes in Activism JF - Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education JA - CJSAE VL - 27 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/index.php/cjsae/article/view/3410 SP - 83-101 AB - <p>In this paper, I employ narrative method to explore the learning processes of adult activists engaged in activism. Drawing on the story of one animal activist I explain the embodied learning processes in a direct action environment. I explore how emotions and the body interplay with learning, which moves beyond a purely cognitive or rational lens of learning which privileges the mind. Importantly, I show the ways in which affect, feelings, emotions and the body are saturated and situated in direct action learning spaces and places. These emotions, sensory and kinaesthetic bodily dynamics encourage a rethink of learning processes that are generally conceptualised as head-based or disembodied. It is argued that embodiment implicates a ‘see-feel-learn’ sequence rather than a rational process of ‘analyse-think-change’ encouraging us to rethink the nature of learning processes in direct action activism.</p> ER -