ABSTRACT
Although experience is often considered a very personal and private affair, Dewey
(1934) urged that rather than thinking of experience as something that happens
exclusively within the individual, we adopt a far more inclusive conception of
experience: “Instead of signifying being shut up within one’s private feelings and
sensations, experience signifies active and alert commerce with the world; at its height it
signifies complete interpenetration of self and the world of objects and events” (p. 25).
