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Lived-experience in outdoor education: explorations for the educational practitioner / researcher
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Wattchow, Brian |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | Within outdoor education, researcher's and author's representations of 'nature', 'the outdoor environment', 'the outdoor classroom', and 'wilderness' are often presented as unproblematic phenomena to be encountered, learned 'in', 'about', and sometimes 'for'. This approach continues despite the emergence within environmental discourse of arguments suggesting that the human experience of relations with these 'places' are far more complex and ambiguous. This paper critiques phenomenology as a research methodology, specifically its potential to produce 'plausible insights' (van Manen, 2001) into the lived experience of embodied relations between people and outdoor places. Hermeneutic phenomenology involves both the writing and careful interpretation of texts that allow the researcher and the reader to interact with the essence of the phenomena being studied. For van Manen (2001), this offers a way inside the apparent mystery of human experience and can deliver us to a “critical pedagogical competence...[a] knowing how to act tactfully in pedagogic situations on the basis of carefully edified thoughtfulness” (van Manen, 2001, p. 8). Key examples from research studies drawing upon this methodological approach will be presented and examined. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 22 |
| Page Count | 22 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.latrobe.edu.au/education/downloads/2004_conference_wattchow.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
