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Novelty and educational experience
Author(s) -
Ingman Benjamin C.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the curriculum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1469-3704
pISSN - 0958-5176
DOI - 10.1080/09585176.2018.1564684
Subject(s) - novelty , criticism , psychology , adventure , quality (philosophy) , value (mathematics) , social psychology , epistemology , computer science , art , artificial intelligence , literature , philosophy , machine learning
Using the method of educational criticism and connoisseurship, I interviewed and observed 41 participants of adventure education (AE) programmes. Through these efforts, novelty was revealed as a central quality of the experience. In this work, this quality is characterised as it manifest in AE with an eye towards the educational value of novelty. The relationship of novelty to conceptions of educational experience is explored, and implications for schooling are offered.