Recently added articles from Australian Journal of Outdoor Education:
Editorial.
Jul 01, 2008; ... Welcome to another issue of the Australian Journal of Outdoor Education where you will find four refereed papers, two non-refereed papers, and one book review. In this issue there is a mix of new, familiar, international, and Australian authors. Before outlining the papers in this issue, I ...
Goffman goes rock climbing: using creative fiction to explore the presentation of self in outdoor education.(Erving Goffman)(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Outdoor education literature has a short, but rich, history of using philosophical (e.g. Hunt, 1990; Wurdinger, 1997; Allison, 2002), anthropological (e.g. Andrews, 1999; Bell, 2003; Venable, 1997), and sociological (e.g. Beames, 2005; Zink & Burrows, 2006; Pike & Beames, 2007) lenses to ...
Moving on an effortless journey: paddling, river-places and outdoor education.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Introduction This paper presents findings from a phenomenological study into the lived experiences of river-places of undergraduate outdoor education students (Wattchow, 2006). As outlined in an earlier paper in the Australian Journal of Outdoor Education titled Playing with an ...
A case study on environmental perspectives of boulderers and access issues at the Niagara Glen Nature Reserve.(Report)(Case study)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Restrictions to access at a number of rock climbing areas in southern Ontario, Canada are due to negative environmental impacts, plant and animal protection, and recreational overuse associated with the recreational activity of rock climbing (Leung & Marion, 2000; McMillan, Nekola, & ...
Teacher qualification guidelines, ecological literacy and outdoor education.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Introduction In this paper I describe the content and outcome of the process to refine qualification guidelines for outdoor education teachers in schools in Victoria, Australia. The initial section of the paper explains the role of qualification guidelines for teachers of ...
Challenge by choice: a sojourn at the intersection of challenge and choice.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... <Pre> I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra </Pre> What the Spanish author, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra said in the 17th century holds true for every human being today. What is the value of having a choice? Is it important for a person ...
Developing an ethical code for the growing nature therapy profession.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Introduction It seems like each therapeutic discipline and profession must have an ethical code, yet how does it develop? While working on my doctoral dissertation, conceptualizing and developing a nature therapy framework, I was asked to add a section about this issue. Although ...
Arapiles: a million mountains.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Lockwood, K. (2007). Arapiles: A million mountains: Natimuk, Victoria: Skink Press 165 pages. ISBN: 9780975805725 (hbk) You may wonder why a review of this book would be included in an outdoor education journal. Apart from my personal biases about Mt Arapiles and the ...
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. ...