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Publication Date: 2025
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Adolescents on the Move: The Application of an Integrated Model for Documentation and Evaluation of "Back into the Wild" Adventure Education Project Aimed at Promoting Psychophysical and Relational Well-Being
Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, v25 n1 p119-137 2025
This paper presents a new integrated model for documentation and evaluation tested in 2021 on Back Into the Wild project, an Adventure Education project by Equilibero Association (Padova-Treviso, Italy). The project proposes educational walks to groups of at-risk adolescents to promote their psychophysical and relational well-being. Due to the paucity of evaluation methods focused on grasping the process dimension of nature-based projects, the research team (CEFEO Research Centre, University of Bologna) chose to construct a new model of documentation and evaluation through a participatory bottom-up process involving practitioners. In addition to outlining the main characteristics of Adventure Education in socio-educational projects in Italy and the peculiarities of BIW project, this paper describes the co-constructed integrated documentation and evaluation model in detail. The first application highlighted the usefulness of the multi-perspective view provided by this tool, allowing for a reflection on how the adventurous project impacted on participants' psychophysical and relational well-being.
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Adolescents, Program Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Documentation, Evaluation Methods, Well Being, At Risk Persons
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Italy
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Education Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; 2Equilibero Association, Padova, Treviso, Italy