Personal Growth Through Adventure

ISBN-13: 9781853461583 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 241 str.

David Hopkins; Roger Putnam; &. Hopkins

Opis

This work offers useful information on how adventure educational projects can encourage personal growth in the pupil. It covers the principles of such education, looks at current issues in the field and reflects on future trends.

Spis treści

Part I Development; Chapter 1 Personal Growth Through Adventure; Chapter 2 The Foundations of Adventure Education; Chapter 3 An Era of Access and Expansion; Part II Principles; Chapter 4 Principles of Adventure Education; Chapter 5 Principles into Practice; Part III Practice; Chapter 6 Working With Young People; Chapter 7 Widening Personal and Professional Horizons; Chapter 8 Meeting Individual Needs; Part IV Themes; Chapter 9 Current Issues and Trends; Chapter 10 Reflecting on the Future;

O autorze

David Hopkins is a tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Education and has previously worked as an Outward Bound Instructor, school teacher and university and college lecturer. He has a Ph.D from Simon Fraser University, Canada, and directs, or has directed, a number of national and local research and evaluation projects. Roger Putnam was a Town Planning officer with Middlesex County Council and, in 1962, he became an instructor at the Outward Bound Mountain School at Eskdale. Since 1990 Roger has been Chairman of the National Association for Outdoor Education.