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Outdoor, Experiential, and Environmental Education: Converging or Diverging Approaches? ERIC Digest.
Download full textAdkins, Carol; Simmons, Bora – 2002
This digest examines the definitions of outdoor, experiential, and environmental education and clarifies the boundaries and essential elements of each tradition. Early in its history, outdoor education was influenced by advocates of camping education and nature study. Today outdoor education includes outdoor experiences designed to meet objectives…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational History, Educational Principles, Environmental Education
Place-Based Curriculum and Instruction: Outdoor and Environmental Education Approaches. ERIC Digest.
Woodhouse, Janice L.; Knapp, Clifford E. – 2000
Place-based education is a relatively new term, but progressive educators have promoted the concept for over 100 years. Place-based education usually includes conventional outdoor education and experiential methodologies as advocated by John Dewey to help students connect with their particular corner of the world. Proponents of place-based…
Descriptors: Ecology, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Ford, Phyllis – 1986
Because outdoor education programs occur in every geographic location, are sponsored by all levels of educational institutions, state and local government agencies, and private entrepreneurs, and have no nationally standardized curriculum or measures of competency or knowledge, outdoor education may best be defines as "education in, about, and for…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Camping, Conservation Education, Definitions
Richardson, Michelle; Simmons, Deborah – 1996
This digest provides a framework for professional development of outdoor educators. Outdoor and environmental educators share similar principles of outdoor learning. Thus, the performance standards recently drafted by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) can serve as a useful guide for outdoor education generally.…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning
Boss, Judith A. – 1999
This digest suggests how outdoor education and experiential learning can develop in students a sense of community participation and set them on a path of strong participation and civic responsibility. Following definitions of outdoor education and experiential learning, various outdoor and experiential approaches are described. Adventure education…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Lisowski, Marylin; Disinger, John F. – 1987
Cognitive learning related to the environment has typically been subsumed as a part of instruction in the more traditional areas of the secondary school curriculum, in particular in science and/or social studies classes. This digest contains a review of a number of studies dealing with cognitive learning in the environment, investigating the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Concept Formation, Environmental Education
