ABSTRACT Botanic and public gardens attract a significant number of people throughout the world who visit these spaces for a wide variety of reasons. Notwithstanding, the study of visitor experiences in such spaces is a much under-researched foci in the fields of museum education and visitor studies. This exploratory study examined the reflective experiences of expatriates, who were foreign exchange students from Japan living in Canada, after a visit to a culturally familiar public space of a traditional Japanese garden. The study reveals the considerable power of such spaces and experiences in terms of these visitors’ reported mental restoration, self-reflection of their own identities, and identification of attributes of their own journeys as foreigners living abroad. These outcomes speak to the capacities of such spaces to be both emotionally transformative and learning experiences of the self for people groups who are uniquely contextually situated in time, place, and life-cycle.

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我在花园里的身份——外籍人士参观花园的自我反思

摘要 植物园和公共花园吸引了世界各地大量游客出于各种原因参观这些空间。尽管如此，在这些空间中对游客​​体验的研究在博物馆教育和游客研究领域是一个研究不足的焦点。这项探索性研究调查了居住在加拿大的来自日本的外国留学生在参观了传统日本花园的文化熟悉的公共空间后的反思经历。该研究揭示了这些空间和体验在这些游客报告的精神恢复、自我反省以及他们作为居住在国外的外国人的旅程属性方面的巨大力量。