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Chris North; David Hills; Pat Maher; Jelena Farkic; Vinicius Zeilmann; Sue Waite; Takako Takano; Heather Prince; Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt; Nkatha Muthomi; Daniel Njenga; Te Hurinui Karaka-Clarke; Susan Houge Mackenzie; Graham French – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
This is a composite article which brings together the international perspectives of the editorial board of the Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning to explore the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on the field of adventure education and outdoor learning (AE/OL). Building on the AE/OL profession's response to the impacts of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Adventure Education, Outdoor Education
Barbara Maria Sageidet; Ove Bergersen – Environmental Education Research, 2025
The Anthropocene is a geo-stratigraphic unit of the upper Earth's layers, impacted by human disturbances, but also humankind's historical record, and children's place to live on. It is an unfinished narrative. This study explores how garden and soil-related activities with kindergarten children, guided by well-informed teachers, may have the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education
Harper, Nevin J.; Gabrielsen, Leiv E.; Carpenter, Cathryn – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2018
This paper addresses pluralistic understandings of wilderness in the context of wilderness therapy (WT). The term wilderness perpetuates a modern worldview of place that beyond 'civilisation' exists an environment defined by risk, fear and an unpredictable nature. WT utilises outdoor travel and living practices during therapeutic intervention and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Outdoor Education, Therapy, World Views
Gabrielsen, Leiv Einar; Fernee, Carina Ribe; Aasen, Gunnar Oland; Eskedal, Leif Torvald – Journal of Experiential Education, 2016
There are few high-quality studies using randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the adventure and wilderness therapy literature. Thus, a unison call is heard for more such studies to be carried out. This article presents a Norwegian wilderness therapy research project that planned to incorporate this "gold standard" that is regarded as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Randomized Controlled Trials, Adventure Education, Outdoor Education
Magnussen, Leif Inge – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2012
To be outdoors and involved in adventures concerns the movement between safety and risk, the familiar and the unfamiliar. Deep involvement in activities and the seriousness found in play are essential in "Bildung." Findings in this paper stem from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a kayak community, between late autumn 2006 until the…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Processes, Outdoor Education, Adventure Education
Langseth, Tommy – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2012
Surfing is getting increasingly popular in Norway as well as other countries that have a coastline with rideable waves. As surfing gains in popularity, however, the boundaries of the surfing subculture become increasingly guarded. Through ethnography and qualitative interviews, this study examines identity construction on an individual and group…
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Subcultures, Scholarship, Ethnography
Potter, Tom G.; Socha, Teresa L.; O'Connell, Timothy S. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2012
In the light of recent challenges facing the field of outdoor adventure education in higher education, this exploratory study sought to identify some of the underlying political and institutional factors and societal influences on an international level that have led to the success of some programmes and the closure of others. Thirty-eight outdoor…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, College Faculty
Repp, Gunnar – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 1996
Relates adventure seeking and adventure education to the Norwegian phenomenon "friluftsliv" to focus on the inclusion of nature and nature-related values. Discusses the dichotomy between nature and culture. Describes friluftsliv as the legacy of the 19th-century explorer and environmental philosopher Fridtjof Nansen who praised the…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education
Repp, Gunnar – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2004
With the ambition of penetrating into the very core of the Norwegian and Nordic "friluftsliv": An ecologically responsible life in the open air-in nature, people will have to become acquainted with Fridtjof Nansen--with the thinker as well as the practitioner. Outdoor life with natural and strong links to the national…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Life Style, Biographies, Foreign Countries