Embodied learning in the liminality of pain: Exploring the body and its experience

• Autores: Maja Maskimovic
• Localización: New seeds for a world to come: policies, practices and lives in adult education and learning: Proceedings of the 10th ESREA Triennial Conference University of Milano Bicocca, Department of Human Sciences for Education 29 September- 1 October 2022 / coord. por Laura Formenti, Andrea Galimberti, Gaia Del Negro, 2023, ISBN 978-88-5526-918-6, págs. 263-271
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Chronic pain is a widespread issue in modern society, defined as pain lasting beyond the typical course of disease orinjury. This article delves into the complex and liminal nature of the chronic pain experience, necessitating individuals to redefinetheir sense of self and place in the world. During this prolonged liminal experience, a new spatial-temporal structure may emerge,affecting personal identity. Using performative-visual artistic methods and an autoethnographic approach, this study exploreschronic pain's liminality. While pain can catalyze significant learning, the findings reveal that it can also be characterized bydisorganization, lack of coherence, and inconsistent insights and changes