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- "Outdoor education" wikipedia concept map This is an interactive concept map of "outdoor education" and related content on wikipedia.
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- Outdoor education meta-analyses The overall effect sizes are small-moderate (~ .3 to .4). This generally supports claims that outdoor education can enhance personal and social development.
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- Wilderness therapy for delinquent and pre-delinquent youth: A review of the literature This paper examines the literature in the field of wilderness adventure therapy for delinquent and pre-delinquent youth in order to evaluate the current state of research.
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- Experiential learning - Wikipedia Experiential Learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience.
- The efficacy of an outdoor adventure education curriculum on selected aspects of positive psychological development, To date, little empirical research has been conducted to support the claim that outdoor adventure education develops desirable psychological characteristics in participants.
- Experiential learning in schools and higher education. This anthology is a compilation of 59 articles that includes items previously published in the "Journal of Experiential Education" and presentations given at conventions of the Association for Experiential Education.
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- Reasserting the philosophy of experiential education as a vehicle for change in the 21st century This article has laid out an argument that experiential education is best viewed as a philosophy of education rather then an approach or specific teaching strategy.
- How shall we "know?" Epistemological concerns in research in experiential education Most experiential educators acknowledge the centrality of the learner in experiences they facilitate. Yet participant experiences are lost in research using an outcome-focused, objectivist epistemology.
- Towards the next generation of experiential education programmes: A case study of Outward Bound At a time of major change for Outward Bound due to falling enrolments and financial losses, this case study aimed to determine whether OB achieved its stated objectives and to develop a greater understanding of why the outcomes were achieved.
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- Beyond "the outward bound process:" Rethinking student learning For this study, data were collected from 92 Outward Bound Canada students through questionnaires, interviews, and observation. 29 course components were found to influence outcomes, including various aspects of course activities, the physical environment,
- The wilderness challenge model Bacon, S. B. & Kimball, R. (1989). The wilderness challenge model. In R. D. Lyman, S. Prentice-Dunn, & S. Gabel (Eds.). Residential and inpatient treatment of children and adolescents (pp. 115-144). New York: Plenum.
- Guide to outdoor education research & evaluation Outdoor education research is the systematic investigation of the theoretical principles and phenomena related to outdoor education.
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- Project Adventure Bibliography This bibliography focuses on material about the philosophy, history, theory, research, and evaluation of Project Adventure, an adventure-based experiential education organization which began in the United States of America in 1971.
- Learning to Interact with Uncertainty (Preston Cline) How many people here think that they should run safe programs? How many people believe they are safe in this room right now? What is interesting is that many of you answered the first question in a binary manner, it is black or white. Safe or unsafe.
- Influences on a modern outdoor education organisation's philosophy The Philosophical Influence Model presented in this paper is suggested as helping to understand the varying, and often dichotomous, philosophical influences on the operation of a modern outdoor education organisation.
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- A vanishing vision (Outward Bound Nepal) The images are almost too beautiful to be real: silhouetted bicyclists crossing a bridge in Myanmar at sunset, a Thai woman carrying a yoke through an impossibly green forest, Buddhists in Ladakh prostrating in the snow toward a Lamayuru monastery.
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- Wild adventure space for young people (Travlou, 2006) Our intention in this review is to build on the work undertaken by Barret and Greenaway in 1995, updating and developing themes identified there as well as filling gaps and drawing on newly emerging approaches and findings.
- Therapeutic value of wilderness Proceedings of the National Wilderness Colloquium, 1988.
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- Professional Climbing Instructors' Association (USA) Our mission is to provide technical and educational information to all levels of the instructional climbing community in an effort to nurture a flow of best practices aimed at improving the safety, quality and delivery of technical climbing instruction.
- Outdoor Education - from the roots, to the new branches The purpose of this review is, first to provide an overview of the "roots" and "foundation" of outdoor education practices and activities, and, secondly to survey the popular outdoor education activities of recent years.
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