Generative Knowing: Learning from Experiences Differently

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Sunday 1:45 pm
  In Poster Session: Experiential Education and Community Engagement: Scholarship and Practice SIG Poster Session

Abstract

This presentation explores Generative Knowing Theory (GKT; Nicolaides, 2022), an emerging adult learning theory extending Dewey’s concept of learning through experience, as a different way to discuss experiential learning and knowing. As members of a scholar-practitioner collective who have played with GKT’s central concepts and movements of rupturing, in-scending, and awaring in our own research and teaching, we use our own experiences to illustrate how GKT allowed us to go “beneath living experience” (p. xxv). We share autoethnographic narrative vignettes, composed during rounds of collaborative inquiry, aimed at re-storying our own lived experiences toward envisioning more discerning and patient practices for adult educators engaged in hopeful, future-oriented experiential education.

Authors

• Younghyun Kim, University of Georgia

• Aliki Nicolaides, University of Georgia

• Trisha Barefield, Kansas State University

• Ahreum Lim, Arizona State University

• Shannon Perry, Valdosta State University