My Identity in the Garden -- Self Reflections of Expatriates' Garden Visits

Autor/inn/en	Anderson, David; Yamashita, Shuichi
Titel	My Identity in the Garden -- Self Reflections of Expatriates' Garden Visits
Quelle	In: Journal of Museum Education, 45 (2020) 2, S.176-186 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Anderson, David)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1059-8650
DOI	10.1080/10598650.2020.1732597
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Gardening; Asian Culture; Metacognition; Self Concept; Plants (Botany); Museums; Foreign Nationals; Exchange Programs; Transformative Learning; Identification (Psychology); Asians; Universities; College Students; Student Attitudes; Canada; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Gartenarbeit; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Selbstkonzept; Pflanze; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Ausländer; Ausländerin; Exchange programme; Exchange program; Exchange programmes; Austauschprogramm; Pädagogische Transformation; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; University; Universität; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Kanada
Abstract	Botanic and public gardens attract a significant number of people throughout the world who visit these spaces for a wide variety of reasons. Notwithstanding, the study of visitor experiences in such spaces is a much under-researched foci in the fields of museum education and visitor studies. This exploratory study examined the reflective experiences of expatriates, who were foreign exchange students from Japan living in Canada, after a visit to a culturally familiar public space of a traditional Japanese garden. The study reveals the considerable power of such spaces and experiences in terms of these visitors' reported mental restoration, self-reflection of their own identities, and identification of attributes of their own journeys as foreigners living abroad. These outcomes speak to the capacities of such spaces to be both emotionally transformative and learning experiences of the self for people groups who are uniquely contextually situated in time, place, and life-cycle. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01