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Transformative experience as a change of horizon

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15510%2F20%3A73595546" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15510/20:73595546 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333175432" target="_blank" >https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333175432</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Transformative experience as a change of horizon

  • Original language description

    Exceptional experiences that have the power to change human lives were first investigated in psychological and religious studies as mystical or religious experiences (James). Humanistic psychology has more recently identified such extreme, positive modes of being as peak experiences (Maslow), peak performances, peak moments, or flow (Csikszentmihalyi). Although most studies have focused on these optimal events, some also accept negative experiences that have the power to transform a human life as nadir experiences or plateau experiences. This chapter will consider not only positive experiences but all experiences with transformative potential that might occasion a change of human understanding of the self, other people, nature and the world. For this task, the notion of horizon that comes from phenomenology (Husserl, Patočka) is utilized. The people involved with experiential education are familiar with the situation at the top of a mountain, where the horizon of what is visible changes compared with previous points of view. The phenomenological understanding of horizon accentuates this symbol as the net of all our references and meanings of what is — of what has altogether created our world. The horizon is not only the boundary of the visible part of reality but also a symbol of the world. In applying this model to experiential education courses, the transformative experience of the concrete participant can change his/her horizon and, thus, a lifelong understanding of his/her life and its meaning and relation to other people, nature, and the world.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA16-19311S" target="_blank" >GA16-19311S: Models of bodily experience in the theoretical foundations of experiential education and its kinanthropological context</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2020

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    Experiential Learning and Outdoor Education: Traditions of Prctice and Philosophical Perspective

  • ISBN

    978-0-367-27929-5

  • Number of pages of the result

    18

  • Pages from-to

    112-129

  • Number of pages of the book

    134

  • Publisher name

    Routledge

  • Place of publication

    Abingdon

  • UT code for WoS chapter