...transaction taking place between an individual and what, at the time, constitutes his environment . . . The environment, in other words, is whatever conditions...capacities to create the experience which is had. Research and interpretive processes in this project emerged simultaneously from our active engagement...

...development of human knowledge was an adaptive response to the environment, defining environment as "whatever conditions interact with personal needs,...capacities to create the experience which is had" (Dewey, 1938, p. 44). Unlike most previous epistemologies, wherein thought was regarded as a primitive...

...experience. The elements of the environment presents everything that the individual interacts with. "The environment, in other words, is whatever conditions...capacities to create the experience which is had" (J. Dewey, Experience and Education. The Kappa Delta Pi Lecture Series. Macmillan Publishing Company,...