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Article: Ways ahead for outdoor education in Australia.
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Outdoor Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
- Author:
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Let's get simple. If you can't do outdoor education with a backpack and a bit of food, then you can't do outdoor education. The essence of outdoor education is that we can learn much about life by living in simple ways in natural surroundings (Stapleton, 1991). At the recent national outdoor education conference, Stuart Hill (2001) implored us to identify and express our 'profound simplicities'. For me, some of the profound simplicities which describe outdoor education are:
(i) we learn most powerfully by experiencing things for ourselves;
(ii) outdoor education can provide enjoyable, educational and therapeutic experiences and this is supported by ...