This book explores theory that can be used to inform how educational expeditions are conceptualised, planned, and facilitated. The contributors offer a wide range of perspectives through which expeditions for educational purposes can be considered. Eleven accessible chapters examine the following topics:
- The British Youth Expedition: Cultural and Historical Perspectives - Virtue Ethics and Expeditions - Interactionism and Expeditions - The Expedition and Rites of Passage - Science on Expeditions - Choices, Values, and Untidy Processes: Personal, Social, and Health Education on...
This book explores theory that can be used to inform how educational expeditions are conceptualised, planned, and facilitated. The contributors offer...
The first curricular-focused outdoor learning textbook for prospective and practising K-12 teachers, Learning Outside the Classroom provides both academic justification and practical support for educators working in a wide variety of environments and with diverse student populations to incorporate more meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities. This book is not a set of prescriptive activities that can be read and used uncritically. The idea of adaptation for personal relevance is central. The guidelines and examples are intended to be adapted by teachers...
The first curricular-focused outdoor learning textbook for prospective and practising K-12 teachers, Learning Outside the Classroom provides both acad...
Adventure and outdoor sports - from rock climbing to freestyle kayaking are a modern social phenomenon that can tell us much about the relationship between sport, culture and contemporary society. In this engaging new introductory text, adventure sports are used to illustrate key concepts in social theory and to demonstrate why an understanding of social theory is essential for any student taking a course in sport, adventure, or outdoor education.
Each chapter in the book introduces a key classical or modern social theorist, including Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Elias, or a universal...
Adventure and outdoor sports - from rock climbing to freestyle kayaking are a modern social phenomenon that can tell us much about the relationship...
Adventurous Learning interrogates the word 'adventure' and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Teachers of all kinds can adapt these guidelines for indoor and outdoor teaching in their own culturally specific, place-responsive contexts, without any requirement to learn a new program or buy an educational gimmick.
As forces of standardization and regulation...
Adventurous Learning interrogates the word 'adventure' and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery...
Adventurous Learning interrogates the word 'adventure' and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Teachers of all kinds can adapt these guidelines for indoor and outdoor teaching in their own culturally specific, place-responsive contexts, without any requirement to learn a new program or buy an educational gimmick.
As forces of standardization and regulation...
Adventurous Learning interrogates the word 'adventure' and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery...
This book provides a broad overview of the ways in which `adventurous practices' influence, and are influenced by, the world around them. Adventure & Society pulls together the threads of these discourses into one coherent treatment of the term `adventure' and the role that it plays in human social life of the 21st century.
This book provides a broad overview of the ways in which `adventurous practices' influence, and are influenced by, the world around them. Adventure & ...
