Lived experience as a unit of analysis for the study of learning

To study individual features of a learning activity entangled in material and social environment, we adopt lived experience as fundamental unit analysis. Defined an ongoing process which is known “from within” by individuals, derives from the phenomenological tradition rooted enactive approach cognition. As such, appears to be active passive, holistic, situated complex temporality, partly pre-reflective. The learners requires researcher second-person perspective s/he constitutes descriptions through relational process. We present two methods for collecting data: explicitation self-confrontation interviews. Two case studies illustrate implementation these methods: first focuses on sensorial swimming lessons, second concerns understanding teacher training. Endorsing analysis allows thinking anew consideration into socio-cultural approaches learning.