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Evolving an Ecological Way of Thinking: Social Interactions and the Construction of Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors in Adolescents during Expeditionary Learning
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Fruend, Jennifer R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The people around us - as well as the methodical progression of education through content - often shape our relationship to the world. Currently, Earth is at a crossroads, which requires humans to act and live more sustainably with an intentional environmental ethos, whether for literal survival or for slowing Earth's resource degradation.…
Descriptors: Ecology, Sustainable Development, Conservation (Environment), Consciousness Raising
Resilience, Peer Relationships, and Confidence: Do Girls' Programs Promote Positive Change?
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Whittington, Anja; Aspelmeier, Jeffery E. – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2018
The purpose of this study was to analyze whether girls' levels of resilience increased after participation in a variety of programs. In this study, 711 girls participated in one of four program types: adventure education (n = 71), experiential education (n = 164), traditional camp setting (n = 228), and mixed camp setting (n = 248). The study…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Peer Relationship, Self Esteem, Females
Adolph Coors - Outward Bound Manpower Challenge Program. A Study of an Innovative Program to Train the Hardcore Unemployed.
Harmon Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1974
Initiated in 1968 for "hardcore unemployables," the Adolph Coors Manpower Challenge Program combines a modified Outward Bound Course with a period of work in the Coors Recycling Yard, followed by permanent placement in the Coors Brewery. Based on changing participants' attitudes, the program eases transition to full employment in four…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Affective Objectives, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns