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Huberty, Thomas J. – Principal Leadership, 2009
Anxiety is one of the most basic human emotions and occurs in every person at some time, most often when someone is apprehensive about uncertain outcomes of an event or set of circumstances. Anxiety can serve an adaptive function, however, and is also a marker for typical development. In the school setting, anxiety is experienced often by students…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Self Esteem, Adolescents, Coping
Gass, Michael; Priest, Simon – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 1993
A strategy for transferring learning from adventure experiences to daily life situations incorporates the use of isomorphs and metaphors. Explains how to develop isomorphic frames and select metaphoric experiences that can be used in adventure programming, especially with clients in therapy. (LP)
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Experiential Learning, Generalization, Imagery
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Nadler, Reldan S. – Journal of Experiential Education, 1995
Suggests ways to enhance the processing of adventure-based experiences by making participants aware of their responses when they reach the edge of their own comfort zone. Participants can use this information to generalize the learning experience to home, school, and office situations. (LP)
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Consciousness Raising, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
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McGowan, Michael Lewis – Journal of Experiential Education, 1997
Suggests that both traditional ethics and values education fail in their dichotomous treatment of religion and spirituality. Describes an alternative approach to ethical and moral problem solving in the adventure milieu that incorporates participants' cultural religious traditions and allows the application of these forces and principles to…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Practices, Ethics, Experiential Learning