This is an extremely important project and emerged largely as a consequence
of the 3th European Congress of the Institute for Outdoor Adventure
Education and Experiential Learning in Edinburgh September 1998 where
Sweden was able to find a number of its partners. The Institute is
represented by two board members on this project.
European colleagues should take the opportunity to find partners through
the Institute which has just obtained a full-time and part-time
administrator and researcher. www.eioaee.org. The focus of the Congress in
1998 was Celebrating Diversity: Learning by Sharing Cultural Differences.
There are two publications from this
Higgins, P. and Humberstone, B. (eds) (1998)Celebrating Diversity: Learning
by Sharing Cultural Differences. Buckinghamshire: EIOAEEL
EIOAEEL (eds) Outdoors, Adventure and Experiential Learning: A Wreath of
European Concepts Penrith: Adventure Education
Also you may be interested in:
Higgins, P. and Humberstone, B. (eds) (1999) Outdoor Education and
Experiential learning in the UK ; Luneburg, Germany: verlag
erlebnispadagogik (german and english)
obtainable through www.adventure-ed.co.uk
Barbara
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> From: Robbie Nicol <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: re: international outdoor ed
> Date: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:43 AM
>
> Dear Neil,
>
> Can I inform you about a European Union funded project that I am involved
> with. The project consists of partners from the Czeck Republic, Sweden,
> Scotland, Germany, Austria and England who represent academic and
> practitioner (and variations) in a range of professional settings. The
> task is to set up an outdoor education in-service training course for
> teachers. The issues that we are in the process of resolving may be of
> interest to you.
>
> We have resolved to develop a course which embraces the diversity found
> inter- culturally (between countries) and intra-culturaly (within
> countries). To do this we have had to take account of philosophical
> debates at a highly abstract level as well as understanding the many
> outlets and contexts that exist when people 'learn outdoors'. This has
led
> us into what we consider to be the most important philosophical juncture
> which relates to the difference between outdoor education and education
(or
> learning) out of doors (these two terms are loaded with cultural
> connotations). To give some examples our group consists of class-room
> teachers, who take their pupils out of the classroom to the school
grounds,
> or local woodland, to pursue curricular outcomes. There are people who
use
> outdoor games, there are people who pursue adventurous activities, there
> are people who adopt a 'sensitization' approach to the outdoors, there
are
> people influenced by the Scout movement, principals from local authority
> residential centres, university lecturers, school teachers and people
> simply (not intended pejoratively) interested in learning out of doors.
I
> do not intend to be exhaustive here in my rather poor description of
> cultural diversity. My intention was more to indicate that this project
> exists and these are the issues that we are wrestling with, and trying to
> resolve, in a way that embraces cultural diversity.
>
> The group will pilot this course in May 2001 by which time we will have
> developed a course handbook, rationale for the course, and bibliographic
> sources on which the course is based. A web site is soon to come on line
> and there will be contributions from partners which show their individual
> perspectives. We did have a web site but there is a new one on the way.
> Once this is available I will post it on this list. If this is of
interest
> to you please come back to me. I could put you in touch with individuals
> from these countries and they could present you with their perspective.
>
> Best wishes, Robbie Nicol
>
>
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