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Experiential Knowledge Experiential knowledge was succinctly defined in 1994 as “information and wisdom gained from lived experience” by Marsha A. Schubert and Thomasina J. Borkman. It signifies a way of knowing about and understanding things and events through direct engagement. Lived experience incorporates the actual experience itself along with the meanings attributed to the experience by the person experiencing it. One form of experiential knowledge, termed Indigenous or local environmental knowledge, refers to information and meanings gleaned through active participation in an activity that is shared by or distributed among members of a group or community. This can include groups of people who form a community (e.g., people who are part of the same village or ethnic group), people A ...