The SEED (Student Enterprise Experience in Dunedin) programme was developed as a four-week, intensive entrepreneurial "boot camp" to provide a small group of participants with a highly experiential business course. Using pre-course and post-course surveys, the authors measured the entrepreneurial ability, knowledge and intentions of the…

Increasingly, staff members in community and public health programs and projects are required to undertake evaluation activities. There is, however, limited capacity for, and understanding of, evaluation within this workforce. Building the capability of individual workers and thereby contributing to the overall capacity among the community and…

Excerpts of interviews with four New Zealand boys in an outdoor education class were analyzed to explore the possible impact of challenge on their lives and the choices they made. Analysis also focused on the relationship between outdoor adventure and "rational recreation" as a means of social control or as a liberating tool for…

This study in New Zealand investigated (1) how well government-funded Learning Experiences Outside The Classroom (LEOTC) providers were meeting requirements of their contracts regarding curriculum linkage, school liaison, and teacher support and (2) how LEOTC providers went about achieving these objectives and how well their strategies worked. The…