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Lenses
Imagine you are wearing red sunglasses.
What colour do you see the world?
What about green sunglasses?
What about no sunglasses?
Do you think everyone wears no sunglasses?
Why?
Outcome 2
Knowing Outdoor Environments
Experiential knowledge
Obtaining knowledge and understanding
through actively engaging in an environment.
A personal experience, such as visiting a
location and/or partaking in an activity.
Hands-on experience, allows us to form a
relationship with the environment.
Ecological perspective
This perspective is grounded in
biology and is concerned with the
interrelationships between living
organisms and their physical
surroundings.
Social perspective
Human interactions with outdoor
environments. They refer to the
actions of a society as a
collective or community, rather
than just focusing on individuals.
Economic perspective
Directly linked to profit. This
perspective is associated with
what the environment has to
offer in terms of its resources
and income opportunities.