A Quality of Interrelating: Describing a Form of Meaningful Experience on a Wilderness River Journey

Autor/in	Morse, Marcus
Titel	A Quality of Interrelating: Describing a Form of Meaningful Experience on a Wilderness River Journey
Quelle	In: Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 14 (2014) 1, S.42-55 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1472-9679
DOI	10.1080/14729679.2013.769713
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adventure Education; Phenomenology; Physical Environment; Interviews; Concept Mapping; Adults; Environmental Education; Learning Experience; Earth Science; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adventure pedagogics; Abenteuerpädagogik; Erlebnispädagogik; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Natürliche Umwelt; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Concept Map; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Lernerfahrung; Earth sciences; Geowissenschaften; Australien
Abstract	In this paper I identify the components of "meaningful experiences" for participants on a wilderness river rafting journey. The research is phenomenologically informed, and includes interviews, journals, observations and follow-up emails from 32 participants on eight Franklin River (Tasmania) 10-day trips. It elicits individual perceptions of meaningful experiences and combines recollections to reveal the commonalities within those experiences. The research identifies two key recurrent "streams of experience" that provide meaning. The two recurrent streams of experience involved, firstly, "a feeling of humility" and, secondly, "being alive to the present." In this paper I focus on the stream of experience surrounding a feeling of humility, highlighting the qualities of the ways in which participants interrelated with their surrounding environments and the structure of such experiences. Additionally, I consider some unique elements of the wilderness river journey that contributed to the experiences that participants valued as meaningful. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10