Hi dusan
in re. to request to research on bodily functions and outdoor adventure.. interested
to hear in what context you conceptualise bodily function ... can you be more
specific. I have ideas and links to the issue of body within an outdoor setting
as my own research has been with women with eating disorders in an outdoor setting
and thus places the issue of body central to the experience. However, the ways
in which conceptualisation of body and theoretical frameworks which consider
bodily functions in the outdoors can obviously vary, and perhaps this is heightened
in many ways when intervention for eating disorders are considered from a variety
of theoretical perspectives..e.g the differnece between a medical model or a
social cultural model of interevention / prevention and what this implies for
issues of practice.
I also find the link between bodily functions and methodolgical debates important.
Perhaps the issue of bodily functions processes rather than outcomes raises
an interest debate in an outdoor adventure context and the methodological approaches
adopted in research. I think the ways in which all expereinces in the outdoors
are embodied . i.e felt and percieved through the body needs a greater focus
and the ability to examine these is in part reflective of the research approaches
prescribed to. If we remain to focus on bodily functions outcomes will we be
able to examine the notion of embodied experiences in the outdoors sufficiently?
Simply using the language of 'outcomes' raises concerns for me in this process
and the emphasises of research approaches.
At a recent conference reference to the WHOLE BODY in an outdoor setting was
referred to , my interpretation of the way in which this was presented was that
experiencing the whole body was required and that this was an assumed process.
I felt there was very little understanding or critique of what such a statement
of the whole body implied . Thus, echoing James, as of yet we have very little
understanding of how the body and physicality locates itself within in an outdoor
adventure experience and who defines what this whole body may consist of...
if at all it does or can exist ?
Linda Allin of University of Newcastle Northumbria has written on the body
capital / physicality in the outdoors ...Linda are you are out there ????
Check out text. Humberstone B (ed) (2000) Her Outdoors , risk, challenge and
adventure in gendered open spaces Lesiure Studies Association.. this raises
some issues of the physicality and you can find some of linda's work in here.
initial thoughts ... be useful for you to define ideas of bodily functions....
regards
kaye
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>Dusan,<br>
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>Sounds exciting for you. Some suggestions from here and hopefully
>others will come in and contact you too.<br>
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>Andrew Martin is close to submitting his PhD on Outward Bound Czech style
>programs. You can find an article of his online at :
><a href="http://members.nbci.com/experientia/" eudora="autourl">http://m>embers.nbci.com/experientia/</a>.
>or email him on:[log in to unmask] I'm sure he'd love to have
>a chat given his experience of outdoor ed in Czech. Also if you are
>interested in using a qualitative approach, Andy's methodology may be of
>interest.<br>
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>I am happy to chat off-list in more detail about my own PhD which is more
>quantitative and attempts to develop a sound measure of 'personal
>effectiveness' to analyse changes in many different types of OE
>programs. Happy to share materials and findings.<br>
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>If you're interested in 'bodily functions' outcomes I think that is
>really quite an exciting area and very much neglected in outdoor
>education research. It seems at time we want to ignore the very
>obvious fact that our programs our physical in nature. Garry
>Richards [log in to unmask] is doing a thesis on the measurement of
>physical self-concept and how it varies across different ages and
>genders. In addition, he has measured the effects onOEprgrams on
>physical self-image, etc.<br>
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>One of my personal views on research methods in OE is that rather too
>much time gets taken up stuck in a binary battle between
>quantiative/qualitative, etc. I think that this distinction is a
>fiction and largely detrimental to the development of integrative
>research styles. So I hope perhaps in your searchings you may be
>able to throw some of your own light for us on these oft-muddied
>waters. I think there is a place for a research project entirely on
>the matter of research methods in OE because the field's general lack of
>innovation in research methods is a significant limitation.<br>
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>Cheers,<br>
>James<br>
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>At 11:08 PM 24/10/00, you wrote:<br>
><blockquote type=cite cite><font size=2>Hi folks.</font><br>
><font size=2>I am a teacher at Charles University Prague Faculty of
>Physical Education and Sport (The Czech Republic). </font><br>
><font size=2>I am working with Jan Neuman, PhD. at department of outdoor
>education.</font><br>
><font size=2>I am doing PhD studies (supervised by Jan Neuman) -
>topic: Evaluation of the research looking into the effects of Outdoor
>Activities and Outdoor Education Programmes on personal development and
>body functions. </font><br>
><font size=2>Could anyone give me any references to research related to
>this topic, contacts on people who do research in this area. Is there a
>summary of research, results?</font><br>
><font size=2>My aim is to evaluate research methods. Could anyone refer
>me to research methods used in Outdoor research? </font><br>
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><font size=2>Thank you very much</font><br>
><font size=2>Warm regards,</font><br>
><font size=2>Dusan Bartunek</font><br>
><font size=2>e-mail:
><a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]</a></font><br>>
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><font size=2>Mgr. Dušan Bartůněk<br>
>Katedra sportů v přírodě FTVS UK<br>
>José Martího 31<br>
>162 52 Praha 6</font></blockquote><br>
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Department of Leisure and Tourism
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