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Bates, Dana; Bates, Brandi – Zip Lines: The Voice for Adventure Education, 2000
An adventure education program combines environmental education, character education, and service learning with ropes courses, orienteering, and rock climbing to offer Romanian youth opportunities for trust building and reconciliation in the wake of the economic, environmental, and moral devastation left by the Communist dictator. An ecotourism…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Empowerment, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Bates, Dana – Zip Lines: The Voice for Adventure Education, 2002
The communist regime in Romania destroyed civil society by breeding suspicion and distrust. Viata, an adventure education program in a depressed coal mining region, assists social redevelopment by providing youth with free, positive experiences of self-efficacy and interconnectedness within the larger web of community. (TD)
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Citizenship Education, Cultural Context, Disadvantaged Youth
