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May, Dieter – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 1996
Across cultures, a common motif is the rite of passage that facilitates transition to adulthood. The structure of an Outward Bound course parallels a classic adolescent initiation rite, involving separation from home and family, influence of a guide or instructor, group adventure in which participants increasingly take responsibility, a solo…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adventure Education, Experiential Learning, Individual Development
Peer reviewedVenable, Stephen F. – Journal of Experiential Education, 1997
Discusses the origins and context of adolescence as a cultural phenomenon and illustrates how rites of passage can nurture healthy developmental changes in adolescents. Describes and evaluates the application of a rite of passage during a backpacking experience that was designed to usher teens from adolescence to adulthood in a Christian context.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Ceremonies, Christianity
Peer reviewedHamer, Lynne – Educational Studies: A Journal in the Foundations of Education, 1998
Interlaken School (Indiana) was an elite boys' preparatory boarding school that combined Hall's definitive theory of adolescence and Spencer's theory of social evolution into both a philosophy and a pedagogy. Interlaken was portrayed as an isolated mythologized community that combined manual with mental development and believed that adolescent…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Boarding Schools, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Download full textPorter, Terry – 1996
Research on girls' development has found that girls see the world that coheres through human relationships rather than through systems of rules, and that 12 or 13 is a watershed age for girls, a time of "central relational crisis." As their bodies enter the physiological transformations that culminate in womanhood, they face an onslaught…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Consciousness Raising, Early Adolescents, Educational Strategies
Hill, John P. – 1983
Effective participatory education programs are planned efforts designed to effect cognitive, social, and affective change. Although research does not yet permit unequivocal generalizations about effects, existing research is promising, especially when compared with research on effects of work experience per se. Positive effects include student,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Decision Making Skills, Experiential Learning, Program Design
Hamilton, Stephen F. – 1980
Unpaid community activities have been widely recommended as learning experiences for adolescents. An evaluation was conducted of two community action learning programs, one which placed adolescents one-to-one in adult-dominated settings and the other which gave adolescents a group project to plan and carry out with adult assistance. Both programs…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs
