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Mutual experiences: understanding children’s play in nature through sensory ethnography

ABSTRACT This paper introduces the concept ‘mutual experiences’ to highlight how a researcher’s sensory experiences may contribute to producing knowledge concerning children’s bodily play in a natural environment. The article also demonstrates how photo-interviews can give a researcher virtual access to places and events where s/he cannot be present. The inspiration for the concept of ‘mutual experiences’ emerged from three sources: (1) The premise that human experiences and knowledge are embodied and develop interactively from environments, (2) the literature on sensory ethnography and (3) ethnographically inspired studies of children playing in a natural environment. The concept is illustrated through an analysis of empirical examples. It is argued that applying this concept could contribute to a more open, enriched and intersubjective understanding of children’s interactive play in a natural environment.