Hi James Another good one - although not a proceedings paper - is: Schiedeck, J., and Stahlman, M. (1997). Totalizing of Experience: Educational camps. In H. Sunker and H. Otto. Education and Fascism: Political identity and social education in Nazi Germany. London: Falmer Press. It may have been mentioned on this list before - I cant remember. Shows that not all camping/experience is necessarily structured for "good"... Cheers John Quay James Neill wrote: > Steve, > > Some wonderful examples that I've never heard of before. Would you be able > to send me hard copies of these (or email of the authors) and the others in > your top 10 or 20 and I'll work on putting them on-line for others. Steve, > would love to see more descriptions of papers to the list. Then at least > we can work towards on-line availability of serious theoretical resources > for our work. Anyone else? > > Cheers, > James > > At 07:03 PM 10/23/01 +0300, Steve Bowles wrote: > >Number 8 : "Look at all the conference proceedings on your shelves and > >go through and count up how many of the presentations could be > >classified as making a serious contribution to theory-building in the > >field. If you get past ten please post a message to the list so we can > >have something to cheer about." > > > >Response from Steve B : I think we might make two cheers here but I > >would need to work any such "two cheers" in a democratic way. That is I > >can suggest some papers ( only a few from many possibilities) and then > >wait and see if the expert-communities agree. Then two cheers might be > >in order at the good bar. So here goes :- > >a) 1994 Prague ( published 1996 Lundberg, germany) The short article by > >Anna Hogenova concerning "outdoors" and "TIME". She was the first in the > >field to seriously bring in the work of Heidegger and most especially > >the theme of "TIME" as attached to a phenomenological-existential and > >hermeneutic perspective. > >b) 1996 Tornio ( published in Jaeol April 1996, UK) The article by Juha > >Suoranta concerning the "Culture of Violence". This was the first > >serious article of this nature in our field and directed to our field > >workers. Juha would say, however, that his work was not a major > >contribution to the field of pedagogical work in a world-wide sense. But > >his work was a major contribution to the OAE field > >c) 1998 Edinburgh ( published 2000 by European Institute publication for > >that congress) the article by Peter Becker concerning "desire" and > >"tolerance" in the context of the Romanticism(S) and Modernity. Nowhere > >else has there been such an article in our field. > > > >I want to give more but I force myself to stop here before it becomes > >possible to see this as a merely personal story. I give only three texts > >and wait for the response. If we agree here then another 7 texts might > >or might not be agreed. > > > >Whatever at least we stick to the point and the thread. > > > >I wait for responses > > > >best wishes > >steve bowles > > -------------------------------------------- > James T. Neill > Department of Kinesiology > New Hampshire Hall > 124 Main Street > Durham, NH 03824 > USA > voice: 603 862 3047 > fax: 603 862 0154 > email: [log in to unmask] > http://www.unh.edu/outdoor-education/index.html -- John Quay PhD Student Department of Science and Mathematics Education Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne Victoria 3010, Australia Ph: +613 8344 8295 Fax: +613 8344 8739