Elana Michelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elana Michelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elana |
| FAMILY NAME | Michelson |
| SIGNATURE | MICHELSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Carnival, paranoia and experiential learning
Theories of experiential learning have tended to view experience as liberating only insofar as it frees us both from the contagious influence of others and from the unruly, irrational Other within. This paper first traces this view of experience to the privatising of body and mind that emerged with capitalism and liberal humanism as public discourse became preoccupied with dirt, licentiousness and self-control, and as economic and political prero…
Re‐membering
Like many Western knowledge‐practices, experiential learning is seen to require what is, in effect, an act of self‐dismemberment, a splitting of the head from the body that denies the connectedness of knowledge to the body and thus loses sight of knowledge as a product of corporeally and emotionally grounded human life. This article first traces the history through which modernist knowledge‐practices were predicated on the rejection of the experi…
Usual suspects
Much attention in adult learning theory rests on the distinction between 'experience' and 'reflection', with experience treated as the raw material for learning and reflection as a highly cognitive processing stage in which the learning actually takes place. The distinction thus valorizes emotional detachment, physical distance and rationality, thereby imposing an epistemological hierarchy that is deeply complicitous with power differentials of g…
Auctoritee" and "Experience
Usual suspects
Much attention in adult learning theory rests on the distinction between 'experience' and 'reflection', with experience treated as the raw material for learning and reflection as a highly cognitive processing stage in which the learning actually takes place. The distinction thus valorizes emotional detachment, physical distance and rationality, thereby imposing an epistemological hierarchy that is deeply complicitous with power differentials of g…
Re‐membering
Like many Western knowledge‐practices, experiential learning is seen to require what is, in effect, an act of self‐dismemberment, a splitting of the head from the body that denies the connectedness of knowledge to the body and thus loses sight of knowledge as a product of corporeally and emotionally grounded human life. This article first traces the history through which modernist knowledge‐practices were predicated on the rejection of the experi…
Auctoritee" and "Experience
Carnival, paranoia and experiential learning
Theories of experiential learning have tended to view experience as liberating only insofar as it frees us both from the contagious influence of others and from the unruly, irrational Other within. This paper first traces this view of experience to the privatising of body and mind that emerged with capitalism and liberal humanism as public discourse became preoccupied with dirt, licentiousness and self-control, and as economic and political prero…
Usual suspects
Much attention in adult learning theory rests on the distinction between 'experience' and 'reflection', with experience treated as the raw material for learning and reflection as a highly cognitive processing stage in which the learning actually takes place. The distinction thus valorizes emotional detachment, physical distance and rationality, thereby imposing an epistemological hierarchy that is deeply complicitous with power differentials of g…
Auctoritee" and "Experience
Re‐membering
Like many Western knowledge‐practices, experiential learning is seen to require what is, in effect, an act of self‐dismemberment, a splitting of the head from the body that denies the connectedness of knowledge to the body and thus loses sight of knowledge as a product of corporeally and emotionally grounded human life. This article first traces the history through which modernist knowledge‐practices were predicated on the rejection of the experi…
Carnival, paranoia and experiential learning
Theories of experiential learning have tended to view experience as liberating only insofar as it frees us both from the contagious influence of others and from the unruly, irrational Other within. This paper first traces this view of experience to the privatising of body and mind that emerged with capitalism and liberal humanism as public discourse became preoccupied with dirt, licentiousness and self-control, and as economic and political prero…
Epistemology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Experiential learning (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Adult and Continuing Education Topics (2 works) · Experiential knowledge (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works)