Response to "Back to Basics"

Autor/in	Jacques, Doug
Titel	Response to "Back to Basics"
Quelle	In: Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 19 (2007) 3, S.13 (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0840-8114
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Outdoor Education; Educational Quality; Thinking Skills; Experiential Learning; Reflection; Leadership Training; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freiluftunterricht; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Denkfähigkeit; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Führungslehre; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	In this article, the author provides a response to Andrew McMartin's article "Back to Basics: Meditations on Quality vs. Quantity in Outdoor Education." In considering quality vs. quantity in outdoor education it is still important from the author's perspective to be conscious of one's viewpoint. He has taught and run trips from a survival perspective, an Earth Education perspective, and a Native Rediscovery perspective. Although being passionate and walking the walk inspires involvement, it is also critical thinking skills, reflection, and involvement in the design and leadership of the experiences that ensure participants develop their own connections, relationships and learnings. Quality experiences well taught should reflect the complexity and diversity of the human experience. As a practitioner the author found McMartin's article on quality vs. quantity in outdoor education both reaffirming and thought provoking. Although at first the complexity of what outdoor educators might, can and should do can be daunting, the author's experience and intuition is that it is not. If outdoor educators can encourage happy and unexpected discovery (i.e., serendipity) by being prepared, knowledgeable, and applying their best judgement and wisdom, students will continue their learning on their own. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario. 1185 Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario, M3C 3C6, Canada. e-mail: info@COEO.org; Web site: http://www.coeo.org/publication.htm
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10