The Water of Life: Creative Non-Fiction and Lived Experience on an Interdisciplinary Canoe Journey on Scotland's River Spey

Autor/inn/en	Higgins, Peter; Wattchow, Brian
Titel	The Water of Life: Creative Non-Fiction and Lived Experience on an Interdisciplinary Canoe Journey on Scotland's River Spey
Quelle	In: Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 13 (2013) 1, S.18-35 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1472-9679
DOI	10.1080/14729679.2012.702526
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Outdoor Education; Recreational Activities; Educational Experience; Nonfiction; Story Telling; Creative Writing; Interdisciplinary Approach; Graduate Students; Water; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Freiluftunterricht; Freizeitgestaltung; Bildungserfahrung; Non-fiction; Nichtfiktionaler Text; Kreatives Schreiben; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Wasser
Abstract	This paper focuses on an educational encounter between staff, students and the River Spey, Scotland in September 2009. The themes of water and embodied and culturally constructed ways of knowing the river were used to inform a creative non-fiction narrative that was drafted during and shortly after the journey, and was later refined. Textual descriptions of both significant and seemingly mundane aspects of the experience were built up through observation, discussion and reflection upon actual events as the authors "sought a solution" to writing a narrative-based representation of the experience. This process endeavours to represent an "insider's" view of the experience through descriptions that strive to portray the "meaning, structure and essence of the lived experience[s]" for a particular group of people at a particular moment in time. We propose that this kind of storytelling has the potential to represent important elements of outdoor educational experiences and the places where they occur that would be difficult to relay in other forms of research writing. The paper is presented in three parts: setting the scene; the textual representation of the Spey descent programme; and participants' evaluations and summary. (Contains 9 notes.) (As Provided).
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