Pub Date : 2022-07-26DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2022.2100798
Muzaffer Toprak Keskin, Özlem Alagül, Ferda Gürsel
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Pub Date : 2022-07-22DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2022.2100800
Alice Mees, L. Collins
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Pub Date : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2022.2100799
M. Norwood, A. Lakhani, E. Kendall
ABSTRACT Traditional indoor lessons, in an Australian high school, were moved outdoors. Studies exploring teacher/student perceptions of a move to nature-based classrooms are limited in mainstream schools in disadvantaged areas. The research question was: how do teachers and students perceive and experience outdoor learning environments compared to indoor environments? Forty-seven students aged 13–14 years, and 2 teachers, took part in 5-weeks of indoor and 5-weeks of outdoor lessons. Students were approached for focus groups; teachers for interviews. A phenomenological approach explored the lived experiences of participants in the outdoor classroom; thematic analysis was used to interpret the data. Teachers reported learning and engagement as comparable in the indoor and outdoor settings. Teachers required resources, school support and guidelines to capitalise on the potential of nature-based learning. A practical ‘how to’ for teachers and schools looking to move outside is included. This study suggests guidelines for weather, class size and lessons content/styles.
{"title":"‘Almost pooped on — dislike!’: student and teacher reactions to nature-based learning and resulting practical advice for implementing in secondary schools","authors":"M. Norwood, A. Lakhani, E. Kendall","doi":"10.1080/14729679.2022.2100799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2022.2100799","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Traditional indoor lessons, in an Australian high school, were moved outdoors. Studies exploring teacher/student perceptions of a move to nature-based classrooms are limited in mainstream schools in disadvantaged areas. The research question was: how do teachers and students perceive and experience outdoor learning environments compared to indoor environments? Forty-seven students aged 13–14 years, and 2 teachers, took part in 5-weeks of indoor and 5-weeks of outdoor lessons. Students were approached for focus groups; teachers for interviews. A phenomenological approach explored the lived experiences of participants in the outdoor classroom; thematic analysis was used to interpret the data. Teachers reported learning and engagement as comparable in the indoor and outdoor settings. Teachers required resources, school support and guidelines to capitalise on the potential of nature-based learning. A practical ‘how to’ for teachers and schools looking to move outside is included. This study suggests guidelines for weather, class size and lessons content/styles.","PeriodicalId":51697,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning","volume":"22 1","pages":"298 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49282373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-13DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2022.2100430
Cian L. Brown, Evan C. Smarinsky, D. L. McCarty, David D. Christian
ABSTRACT A mountain bike program was designed and adapted for the school setting with middle school-aged students during 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Two mountain bike groups were offered to facilitate training and development of mountain bike knowledge and skills: one group with integrated Adventure Therapy components to facilitate a therapeutic process and the other group without a therapeutic debriefing process. Forty-one students participated in the program after being randomly assigned to one of two groups. An exploratory qualitative analysis revealed that the pandemic negatively impacted participants’ wellbeing and academics, leading to increased isolation and decreased motivation, while the mountain bike program increased their focus, competency, physical and mental wellbeing, and connection to the environment. It appears the mountain bike program served as a protective factor for participants. Implications for professionals and researchers are discussed.
{"title":"Student experiences of an adventure therapy mountain bike program during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Cian L. Brown, Evan C. Smarinsky, D. L. McCarty, David D. Christian","doi":"10.1080/14729679.2022.2100430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2022.2100430","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A mountain bike program was designed and adapted for the school setting with middle school-aged students during 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Two mountain bike groups were offered to facilitate training and development of mountain bike knowledge and skills: one group with integrated Adventure Therapy components to facilitate a therapeutic process and the other group without a therapeutic debriefing process. Forty-one students participated in the program after being randomly assigned to one of two groups. An exploratory qualitative analysis revealed that the pandemic negatively impacted participants’ wellbeing and academics, leading to increased isolation and decreased motivation, while the mountain bike program increased their focus, competency, physical and mental wellbeing, and connection to the environment. It appears the mountain bike program served as a protective factor for participants. Implications for professionals and researchers are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51697,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning","volume":"22 1","pages":"313 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49581685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-07DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2022.2087197
E. Brymer, C. Loynes, Vinathe Sharma-Brymer
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2022.2095653
G. French
Gray, T., & Mitten, D. (Eds.). (2018). The Palgrave international Handbook of women and outdoor learning. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Jeffs, T., & Ord, J. (Eds.). (2018). Rethinking outdoor, experiential and informal education. Abingdon: Routledge. Prince, H., Henderson, K. A., & Humberstone, B. (2015). Routledge handbook of outdoor studies. Abingdon: Routledge. Thomas, G., Grenon, H., Morse, M., Allen-Craig, S., Mangelsdorf, A., & Polley, S. (2019). Threshold concepts for Australian university outdoor education programs: Findings from a Delphi research study. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 22(3), 169–186.
{"title":"Interrogating authenticity in outdoor education teacher education","authors":"G. French","doi":"10.1080/14729679.2022.2095653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2022.2095653","url":null,"abstract":"Gray, T., & Mitten, D. (Eds.). (2018). The Palgrave international Handbook of women and outdoor learning. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Jeffs, T., & Ord, J. (Eds.). (2018). Rethinking outdoor, experiential and informal education. Abingdon: Routledge. Prince, H., Henderson, K. A., & Humberstone, B. (2015). Routledge handbook of outdoor studies. Abingdon: Routledge. Thomas, G., Grenon, H., Morse, M., Allen-Craig, S., Mangelsdorf, A., & Polley, S. (2019). Threshold concepts for Australian university outdoor education programs: Findings from a Delphi research study. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 22(3), 169–186.","PeriodicalId":51697,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning","volume":"22 1","pages":"271 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45727002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2022.2087193
R. Motta, Manuela Ferreira
ABSTRACT The growing interest in outdoor early childhood education, even in countries with a weak environmental tradition such as Portugal, tends to be associated with a concern over the alienation between urban/Western children and nature. While educational projects in nature criticize this separation, they still maintain a bad culture vs good nature dichotomy to which we object. Resorting to such different fields as critical childhood studies, new materialisms, posthumanisms, and ecological epistemologies, we converge on the inseparability of nature/children and the material/discursive world. We then pay attention to the experiences which children and more-than-human beings shared during ethnographic research in a private outdoor kindergarten. Through photos and excerpts from the field notes, we tell stories of children and bamboo playing in a place free of adult interference, a ‘secret hideaway’ in which they co-produced their nature-cultures by being collectively with the world and from which we have much to learn.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2022.2087195
Curt Davidson, Alan Ewert, R. Zwart
{"title":"By land or sea: Exploring motivations for outdoor adventure activities in a college student population","authors":"Curt Davidson, Alan Ewert, R. Zwart","doi":"10.1080/14729679.2022.2087195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2022.2087195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51697,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42097898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2022.2087196
L. Melhuish, George Ryan
{"title":"Undergraduate perspectives on the epistemological chain in adventure sports coaching","authors":"L. Melhuish, George Ryan","doi":"10.1080/14729679.2022.2087196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2022.2087196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51697,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46579600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-12DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2022.2075412
Kara Dadswell, Stjepan Sambol, Z. Yager, Nina Van Dyke, M. Pascoe, Clare Dallat, Claire Brown, A. Parker
{"title":"Together we grow: evaluation of a design thinking professional development workshop for outdoor educators indicates improvements in growth mindset","authors":"Kara Dadswell, Stjepan Sambol, Z. Yager, Nina Van Dyke, M. Pascoe, Clare Dallat, Claire Brown, A. Parker","doi":"10.1080/14729679.2022.2075412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2022.2075412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51697,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48274827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}