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Article: Astride a long-dead horse: mainstream outdoor education theory and the central curriculum problem.
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Outdoor Education
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
- Author:
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Abstract
In 1859 Herbert Spencer recognised that the key curriculum issue was not what to include but what to leave out. 'What to leave out' marked a shift in curriculum discourse from a search for universal approaches and absolute principles towards curriculum questions understood as only resolvable relative to particular social contexts. Yet outdoor education is frequently explained and justified in universal, absolute terms that are incapable of resolving the question of outdoor education's educational worth in any particular situation. The first part of this study outlines some necessary links between curriculum discourse and outdoor education theory. The ...