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McDonald, Peter – Horizons, 1997
Criticizes the New Zealand approach to outdoor leadership, which relies on teaching risk assessment and management from manuals and checklists and which asserts that risk-management skills are transferable between risky sports. Suggests that sound outdoor practice involves more than "legal duty of care," and recommends reliance on…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Leadership Qualities
Barcott, Bruce – Horizons, 2002
A high-profile liability case concerning a fatal ice-climbing accident provides the background for this discussion of liability issues in adventure activities. A brief history of outdoor adventure litigation, emerging trends, and how outdoor guides can protect themselves and their clients is presented. Guides should candidly describe the risks…
Descriptors: Accidents, Adventure Education, Court Litigation, Insurance
Priest, Simon; Gass, Mike – Horizons, 1998
Explains the preexperience, experience, and postexperience phases of seven teaching styles: dictated, prescribed, directed, consulted, interpreted, automated, and shared. The most effective and appropriate style suits the situation, fits the preferences of leader and clients, and results in appropriate client independence. Although no single best…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Experiential Learning, Leadership Styles, Learning Strategies
Neill, James T.; Dias, Katica L. – Horizons, 2002
Social support, a key factor in determining physical and mental health, strongly predicted changes in outdoor adventure participants' psychological resilience. The support received from the least supportive person best predicted gains in resilience. Outdoor education programs should provide a learning environment that is both challenging and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Group Dynamics, Outdoor Education, Outdoor Leadership
Hovelynk, Johan – Horizons, 2000
"Moments at the edge" occur when adventure participants reach the boundaries of their assumptions and mental frames and are ready to experiment with a new, more successful, mindset. Facilitators can support this experiment if the moment is recognized. Several indicators of the edge are described, and a case study of "edgework"…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Attitude Change, Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Structures
Terrell, Chris – Horizons, 2000
Examines ways that outdoor leaders can address the needs of individuals in a group context, balance the needs of group processes against course objectives, recognize and deal with issues of power and authority in groups, and address psychological health and safety matters. Focuses on leader awareness and behavior and on the leader-participant…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Communication Skills, Group Dynamics, Group Guidance
Raiola, Edward O. – Horizons, 1998
Discusses the advantages of a four-year undergraduate liberal arts program for preparing students to lead educational, therapeutic, and recreational experiences in outdoor settings. Recommends a curriculum design that balances training and education with reflection and action (praxis). Outlines the content of an outdoor leadership curriculum and…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, College Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Educational Strategies
Walker, Rod – Horizons, 1998
Within diverse outdoor educational activities, a core experience of connection with the earth balances self, others, and nature with elements of ritual. Most effective when experiential, integrated, and technologically simple, the core experience's educative power lies in awakening awareness of interconnectedness between human and nonhuman life.…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Educational Benefits, Educational Principles, Environmental Education
Brown, Heather – Horizons, 2000
Participant responsibility in outdoor education programs is placed on a continuum from passenger status through participant and partner to practitioner. Corresponding leader roles are directive, coaching, supporting, and delegating. The disempowering effects of the passenger approach to risk management and the value of teaching a group to manage…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Educational Strategies, Empowerment, Leadership Styles
Gassner, Michael – Horizons, 2002
Outdoor adventure educators need a solid foundation in theoretical knowledge that will influence and guide equally important practical skills. A strong sense of professional practice should be instilled in new outdoor adventure educators to prevent them from becoming insulated in their ideas and practices. Philosophical underpinnings and good…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Leadership Qualities
McGowan, Michael – Horizons, 2000
Nineteen practitioners, academics, and students of outdoor and adventure education explored the role of adventure education in promoting spiritual development at a think tank held in 1999 in Cumbria (England). Discussions on the nature of spirituality, outdoor education elements conducive to spiritual development, and ethical considerations…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Philosophy, Ethics, Foreign Countries
Grant, Frank – Horizons, 2002
A false allegation of sexual abuse at a residential outdoor education facility demonstrates why programs should have written policies and procedures directing staff how to respond to infatuations and "come-on" traps of young people; how to avoid bodily contact, being alone with a group, or dealing emotionally and physically with…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Adult Child Relationship, Behavior Standards, Child Abuse
Schusser, Eric – Horizons, 1998
The Leadership Project uses community partnerships to initiate a systematic response to drug and alcohol use, violence, and crime among teenagers in Alexandria, New Zealand. Aspects of the project include adventure-based violence intervention and counseling in the high school and leadership training at an outdoor education center. Preliminary…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adventure Education, At Risk Persons, Counseling