Sensory and Affective Disciplinary Listening

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Nine
  In Roundtable Session: The Sociality of Emotions and Well-Being Among Youth and Educator Activists (Table 4)

Abstract

We examine the entanglement of disciplinary inquiry, agency, embodied sensations, and epistemic affect. We extend notions of material agency to include intrapersonal agency by developing a discursive, posthuman framework of disciplinary conversations. Using a microgenetic learning analysis, we describe the disciplinary importance of a group of students’ careful attention to their embodied sensations. The group’s decision to pursue their disciplinary questions (and eventually attempt to build a computational model) was dependent on their having, noticing, and then responding to their physical sensations, material relationships, and entangled emotions.

Authors

• Ezra Gouvea, Rethink Learning Labs
  Presenting Author

• Brian E. Gravel, Tufts University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Timothy Atherton, Tufts University
  Non-Presenting Author