Abstract
The aim of this article is to show the learning potential of participation in protests in the narratives of several adults. Participation in rebellions is seen as a specific learning experience here. What is the relationship between experience and learning on the example of participation in rebellions? The author analyses this relationship, inter alia, on the example of critical practices described by Usher. This article is a part of a broader research project on learning mechanisms of adults participating in various forms of rebellion. The study is concerned with answering the questions: what and how do protesters learn? what are the social and cultural mechanisms of their learning? In this research project a biographical perspective was used. Within it, the biography is understood in a processual way. The biographical method focuses on the subjective level of experience in the socio-cultural and institutional context. The empirical material was analysed by searching for similarities and differences in rebels’ narratives. The results of the study are above all the identification of learning outcomes and identity-building processes.
Highlights
Rebellion is an interesting and complex phenomenon
My research project focuses on political rebellion, and especially protesting in public spaces
It should be added that the terms ‘participation in rebellion’ and ‘activism’ are understood almost synonymously here
Summary
Rebellion is an interesting and complex phenomenon. In this paper, I understand it as a specific way of being human in the world that can be an opportunity for learning. Rebellion would mean negating the status quo and creating alternatives to the existing reality. This phenomenon can be described at many levels: biographical (as a personal experience), local (in the context of specific social groups and local communities) as well as global, especially in the form of social movements Perfect examples of such collective rebellions are Occupy in the USA, the Indignados Movement in Spain, the Arab Spring in north of Africa, the Black Protests and the Women’s Strike in Poland, protests against Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus, Extinction Rebellion, and many others
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