"the Scent of My World": A Student's Perceptual Knowing of Outdoor Experiencing‪.‬

Abstract This paper is an inquiry into one high school student's perceptual knowing in an outdoor adventure education classroom. Holly's perceptual knowing emerges through stories, conversations, and poetry while on sea kayaking, bicycling, and winter camping trips. The research contributes to an understanding of human outdoor experiencing through an enactive interpretation of embodied awareness/actions. Our embodiment of action is not separate from our social history of experience. Nor is it separate from emergent interactions with the environment which bring forth a freshness of perception. It is my hope that this paper opens possibilities for thinking about the emergent ways of interacting within many educational contexts. Further, an enactive interpretation of outdoor experiencing is a laying down of a path in perceptual knowing.