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Paying Attention to Perceptual Experience Within Nature

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The literature focussing on participant experiences of nature in outdoor and environmental education is extensive. Although this literature provides a conceptualisation of what an experience might be it is necessarily incomplete. Experience itself is not easily defined.

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  1. La Trobe University, Australia

    Marcus Morse

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  1. La Trobe University, Australia

    Margaret Robertson

  2. La Trobe University, Australia

    Ruth Lawrence

  3. La Trobe University, Australia

    Gregory Heath

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Morse, M. (2015). Paying Attention to Perceptual Experience Within Nature. In: Robertson, M., Lawrence, R., Heath, G. (eds) Experiencing the Outdoors. Researching Environmental Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-944-9_10

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