Recently added articles from Australian Journal of Outdoor Education:
Editorial.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Welcome to another issue of the Australian Journal of Outdoor Education. A recent development in the journal ranking process in Australia has seen the Australian Research Council release draft rankings for 19500 journals based on their overall quality (See ...
Comfort zone: model or metaphor?(REFEREED PAPERS)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The comfort zone model is widespread within adventure education literature. It is based on the belief that when placed in a stressful situation people will respond by overcoming their fear and therefore grow as individuals. This model is often presented to participants prior to activities ...
Outdoor education in senior schooling: clarifying the body of knowledge.(REFEREED PAPERS)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Australia has a state-based educational system. In some of these states, outdoor education exists as part of the formal accredited secondary school curriculum. In this paper I analyse the content of these senior secondary school outdoor courses as a means to help delineate and describe the ...
Slow pedagogy and placing education in post-traditional outdoor education.(REFEREED PAPERS)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Time, and our experiences of it, warrants attention in 'place' pedagogies in outdoor education. Place typically involves the experience of a geographical location, a locale for interacting socially and/or with nature, and the subjective meanings we attach over time to the experience ....
Eco-mentoring: using nature as a guide to destiny.(NON-REFEREED PAPERS)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The decline of traditional mentoring and its replacement by institutional teaching, with the consequent separation of the young from intimate contact with nature, has been a mixed blessing. In particular, the use of nature as a guide for the young to find their life path has been ...
Nature First: Outdoor Life the Friluftsliv Way.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... La Trobe University, Bendigo Henderson, B. & Vikander, N. (2007). Nature first: Outdoor life the friluftsliv way. Toronto, Canada: Natural Heritage. 321 pages. ISBN: 978-1-897045-21-3 The consensus of the authors in this collection is that their cultures ...
The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... La Trobe University, Bendigo Harper, M. (2007). The ways of the bushwalker: On foot in Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press. 368 pages. ISBN: 9780868409689 Are you a bushwalker? What does it mean to be a bushwalker? In the introduction of The ways of the ...
Teams for a New Generation: A Facilitator's Field Guide.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Reviewing Skills Training, Scotland Robinson, G, & Rose, M. (2007). Teams for a new generation: A facilitator's field guide: Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. 164 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4343-2411-5 The blurb reads: "This book provides a simple model to understand ...
Editorial.
Jul 01, 2007 ... It is my pleasure to share some recent, positive developments for the Australian Journal of Outdoor Education. A journal banding research project, completed at the University of Newcastle, Australia sought to rank education related journals (See ...
Can we move beyond 'Indigenous good, non-Indigenous bad' in thinking about people and the environment?(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... Introduction The suggestion that the answer to a question about the historical relationships between people and the environment can be reduced to Indigenous good/non-Indigenous bad raises some questions about what is occurring around the Victorian Outdoor and Environmental ...
Skill instruction in outdoor leadership: A comparison of a direct instruction model and a discovery-learning model.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... Teaching outdoor education, or leading outdoor recreation experiences, often involves teaching people how to perform certain skills. The quality of this instruction can become critical if the skill level of students has the potential to influence the students' level of safety and ...
Outdoor and Environmental Studies: more challenges to its place in the curriculum.(Case study)
Jul 01, 2007; ... Introduction Outdoor education as a legitimate subject in the curriculum of senior secondary schooling has been subject to much contestation and politics, and this article provides a case study of the experiences in one particular location - the state of Victoria, Australia. ...
Sustaining adventure in New Zealand outdoor education: Perspectives from renowned New Zealand outdoor adventurers on the contested cultural understanding of adventure.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... Introduction This article is an exploration of adventure understandings in New Zealand and how these contested understandings impact on the sustainability of adventure in outdoor education. The focus is on outdoor pursuits oriented adventure over the second half of the 20th ...
What outcomes are we trying to achieve in our outdoor education programs?(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... Introduction This study evaluated the effectiveness of an experiential learning and outdoor education school program on the life effectiveness skills of middle school boys. The program is referred to as the Pre- Senior Life Effectiveness (PSLE) Program. We have no direct ...
Preventing death and serious injury from falling trees and branches.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... Introduction Of the 128 outdoor education related deaths since 1960 that I have studied (Brookes, 2003a, 2007), 14 have been due to falling trees or branches - about 11%. Of the 17 deaths that have occurred at the time of writing since January 2000, 5 (29%) have been due to ...
Adventure education: Theory and applications.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2007; ... I've never been a big fan of text books and I really only picked this one up because it does not look like one. I confess to having a soft spot for colour covers adorned with adventure photos. With the name Dick Prouty and Project Adventure jumping from the cover at me, I was looking ...
Patriots: Defending Australia's natural heritage 1946-2004.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2007; ... On most occasions when I read a book I read several pages or hopefully a chapter before I get distracted or interrupted. I invariably read many other things-newspapers, magazines, research papers, other books-before I resume where I left off with the first book. In a sense, there isn't a ...
A Teachable Moment: A facilitator's guide to activities for processing, debriefing, reviewing, and reflection.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2007; ... I am often critical of 'resource books' that provide facilitators with a smorgasboard of new activities to assist with their programs. One danger of such texts is that they arm would-be-facilitators with a whole range of exciting activities, but fail to provide them with any clue as to ...
Call for papers.
Jul 01, 2007 ... Audience of the journal The Australian Journal of Outdoor Education (AJOE) is a refereed journal devoted to the scholarly examination of issues in the field of outdoor education. It is relevant to outdoor education practitioners and researchers, both in Australia and overseas ....