It is true, of course, that a pheno

It is true, of course, that a phenomenological approach to school science gives primacy to students’ ‘lived experience’. One can indeed make a distinction between a ‘lived experience’ and a ‘sensory experience’.21 However, it is also true that a sensory experience can be a lived experience in the sense that it is not passive and has an impact on one’s life. Observing a rainbow or a sunset can be a lived experience (if one perceives the beauty and the richness of these phenomena) comparable to an experience one can have through the perception of an artwork.