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Questions are raised concerning the nature of perception, experience, and the interplay between the world and ourselves. The narrative is based on a recent trip down the Coppermine River in the Barrenlands of Canada’s Arctic. The discussion is built around metaphors of burgeoning life, the discovery of copper, the different meanings of the word “mine,” and the challenges these pose to our perception. I reflect on the implications of my experience for the teaching/learning process. The hope is that this paper opens a space for discussion within the field, asks some questions, and offers some answers to questions that we did not know we were asking.  \nRésumé  \nDans cette dissertation narrative, j’analyse des hypothèses fondamentales de la compréhension que j’ai de l’éducation écologique. Des questions, sur la nature de la perception, de l’expérience et de l’interaction entre le monde et nous-mêmes, surgissent. L’histoire est basée sur un récent voyage sur la rivière Coppermine dans la toundra de l’Arctique canadien. La discussion sedéroule autour de métaphores sur la vie bourgeonnante, la découverte de cuivre, les différents sens au mot «mine» et les défis que cela pose à notre perception. Je réfléchis aux implications de mon expérience pour le processus de l’enseignement/apprentissage. On peut espérer que cet article débouche sur un forum dans le domaine, pose des questions et propose des réponses aux questions que nous ignorions que nous posions.  \nKeywords: environmental education; outdoor education; Arctic; perception; paddling  \nIntroduction  \nI have been a paddler for years and have had the good fortune to explore diverse eco-systems around the world. There are periods of my life where I have been on the water for more than 200 days in a year, and for many of those days I have had students with me. Those students have ranged in ages, abilities, interests, and histories, and together they represent a rich cross-section of humanity. No doubt as a result of my experience, and despite the fact that I try to avoid either being labeled or labeling myself, I began to complacently see myself as a skilled, open-minded, and thoughtful outdoor and environmental educator.  \nCanadian Journal of Environmental Education, 11, 2006 157  \nI realized last summer, when I encountered the Coppermine, that I had lost sight of the humility necessary to recognize the limits and structures of my own perceptions and the patterns into which my thinking had fallen. I know that there is much that I have gained from my experiences on trail; I have been profoundly influenced, indeed shaped, by the earth, and regard it as my greatest teacher. Yet, like any good teacher, the world was able to challenge me this past summer, shake me out of my inertia and into that anxiety and delight of the incipient sense of deeper understanding. I was reminded of my potential for self-deception and of the need for what Michel Foucault (1981) called “hyper-active pessimism,” the distrust of the taken-forgranted, without which I lose the possibility for ongoing learning offered to those who accede.  \nThis paper is, in several ways, an experiment. It is a thought experiment, one that focuses on perception at several levels. It is an eco-research experiment, an attempt to engage the reader into a discussion that rejects the objective viewpoint and invites her/ him to become a partner in the research, thereby obliging him/her to abandon the role of passive spectator.1 Lastly, it is an experiment in language and scholarship. If one accepts the notion that language (as symbol, form, and content), including notably academic language, is a key vehicle for the communication/transfer of a culture, and also accepts that a particular culture is responsible for the degradat","cbCaiq0PZpvWqea1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq0PZpvWqea1","pdf",107961,"English","# Introduction\n## The Coppermine River\n## The Rich, Precarious Life of the Coppermine","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the narrative essay?\",\"answer\":\"It investigates assumptions behind environmental education by centering perception and experience at multiple levels.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the Coppermine River trip support the essay’s argument?\",\"answer\":\"The canoe journey provides the narrative base for metaphors about burgeoning life, copper, and the meanings of “mine,” which challenge the author’s perception.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does the essay claim for language in scholarship and learning?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that language, including academic language, shapes cultural understanding and requires imagination to avoid implicit paths of comprehension.\"}]","Seeds of Green: My Own Arctic Copper/Mine - Narrative Essay | PDF",1792085028,23]