ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a practice-oriented account of the concepts of affect and learning. It describes a tradition of work on affect that, while challenging the foundational model of autonomous subjectivity which underlies the psychological sciences, retains the importance of the psyche or psychological. The chapter also provides an account of learning as learning to be affected, attending to how affect, and, in concert, learning, extend beyond the subjective and subjectivities, while being given meaning by the subject. Leading with an affective practice approach, and drawing selectively on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, the authors proceed to study affectivity at the museum practically. They do so by deploying data from video-based case studies of 40 school students' experiences of learning when visiting Museum Victoria, Australia's largest public museum organisation, focusing on how their affective learning practices within the exhibition space enabled them to achieve specific kinds of social understandings.
