Emotion and Sense-Making in Politicized Contexts: Expanding the Conversation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this panel, we examine several politicized learning contexts to examine how emotion shapes the sense that is made in learning ecologies and how emotion can itself be understood as a learning target. The papers examine diverse contexts, including a court mandated seminar for clients of sex work; a virtual reality experience exploring queer, trans, and nonbinary marginalization; Black children’s artistic representations of identity and experience; and a US Senate hearing on reproductive law. As the field increasingly turns toward interrogating the political underpinnings and consequences of learning, the panel provides new empirical and conceptual grounding for understanding emotion’s role in learning about how the world is—and should be—organized. Implications for ethics, ideology, solidarity, racialization, and epistemic practices are discussed.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Learning Sciences

Chairs

• Joe Curnow, University of Manitoba

• Tanner Vea, Pennsylvania State University

Papers

• Guided Emotion Participation in Shame: The Manitoba Prostitution Offender Program - Joe Curnow, University of Manitoba; Amy Lebovitch, University of Manitoba; Sarah Broad, University of Manitoba

• "TERFs Are a Thing. And I F*cking Hate Them": Developing Solidarity Through Emotion and Ideology - Dylan Paré, University of Calgary

• Black Is a Feeling: Seeing Joy, Historic Memory, and Self-Determination as Indexes of Children's Learning - Natalie R. Davis, University of Michigan

• Fascist Emotionality and Epistemic Practice: A Challenge for the Learning Sciences - Tanner Vea, Pennsylvania State University