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- Title: Moving on an Effortless Journey: Paddling, River-Places and Outdoor Education (Report)
- Author : Australian Journal of Outdoor Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 242 KB
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Introduction This paper presents findings from a phenomenological study into the lived experiences of river-places of undergraduate outdoor education students (Wattchow, 2006). As outlined in an earlier paper in the Australian Journal of Outdoor Education titled Playing with an unstoppable force: Paddling, river-places and outdoor education (Wattchow, 2007) the research involved collecting written and oral data from 64 participants, 21 of whom were interviewed. Collectively the written statements and transcriptions of interviews totalled over half a million words of data. Managing large volumes of data remains one of the classic challenges of social research. This research proceeded by reducing this data to 21 case histories, one for each of the interviewees (each three to five thousand words in length), which provided a representation of their recollections of their undergraduate river paddling experiences. Key quotations from these representations were thematised and idiomatic phrases (van Manen, 1997) were highlighted. The quotations that constituted a theme for each participant were matched with place notes of the physical setting and a hermeneutic description (based upon my initial interpretation as researcher) of the structure and essence (van Manen, 1997) of that aspect of the participant's experience.
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