Recently added articles from The Journal of Experiential Education:
A Letter From the Editors
Sep 01, 2008; ... We are pleased to present issue 31.2 of the Journal of Experiential Education. This edition marks the end of the editorial team's first 3-year term of service, and quite a lot has changed in that relatively short time span. For instance, a year ago, Mary Breunig wrote in the Letter From the ...
Calendar of Events
Sep 01, 2008; ... November 6-7, 2008 58th Annual Cortland Recreation Conference SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York, USA www.cortland.edu/rec/ November 6-9, 2008 36th Annual International Association for Experiential Education AEE Conference Vancouver, Washington, ...
Are Challenge (Ropes) Courses an Effective Tool? A Meta-Analysis
Sep 01, 2008; ... This study reports the results of a meta-analysis of 44 studies that examined the impacts of participation in challenge (ropes) course activities. Overall, a medium standardized mean difference effect size was found (d = 0.43). Effect sizes were calculated for various study characteristics, ...
The Pedagogic Value of Student Autonomy in Adventure Education
Sep 01, 2008; ... Allowing students a sense of autonomy has long been considered an important pedagogical tool. This paper synthesizes the current literature on student autonomy from the education, youth development, and outdoor adventure fields and explores its value through an analysis of data from the National ...
How Rules Shape Experience
Sep 01, 2008; ... Rules guide and constrain participants' actions as they participate in any educational activity. This ethnographically driven case study examines how organizational rules-the implicit and explicit regulations that constrain actions and interactions-influence children to use science in the ...