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Exploring Human Nature - A Reflexive Mixed Methods Enquiry into Solo Time in the Wilderness (Hardcover)
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Exploring Human Nature - A Reflexive Mixed Methods Enquiry into Solo Time in the Wilderness (Hardcover)
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Exploring human nature takes the reader deep into the human
experience of being in nature. Our current ecological predicament
highlights the need to change people's nature awareness and
behaviour. This pioneering mixed methods study investigates a
method to do this through facilitated Solo time in the wilderness.
Solo time is an ancient, ritualised and pan-cultural practice of
spending time alone in nature, that has been reintroduced into our
current time and culture. The study focuses on the phenomenology of
young adults' immersive experiences in nature and the evaluation of
long term impact on their personal development, their relationship
with nature, community participation and ecological behaviour.
However, this work is not only about the content of research, it is
also about how research is done. On a methodological level the
study takes a systemic approach: it explores and integrates an
expanded, interconnected worldview and methodology. In practice,
this encompasses working with participants' dreams as data and
including different ways of knowing in an expanded view on
validity. It also includes collecting data on the researcher's own
experience and integrating it as a parallel narrative in the
thesis. In this manner the book not only tackles the pressing issue
of an increasing psychological and physical separation between
humans and nature. It also calls into question how conventional
research and its prevailing tendency to investigate the world in
isolated pieces may contribute to the problem. Overall, this book
provides a practical example of how a systemic approach may be
integrated in the research process and in academic writing. It also
serves as a valuable reference point for future work on promising
triggers for change and highlights powerful elements for
prospective programmes focussing on individual empowerment,
sustainability and nature awareness. It addresses all researchers
interested in ecopsychology and experiential education but also
those who are curious to explore subjectivity as part of an
expanded worldview and methodology in research.
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