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Frank, Laurie – Zip Lines: The Voice for Adventure Education, 1999
A residential YMCA camp in northern Wisconsin uses wilderness adventure education to teach collaborative leadership skills to high school students. Trust and relationship-building exercises are followed by simulations, culminating in a wilderness trip. Reflective exercises internalize the learning. Presents the camp's six fundamental beliefs about…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Cooperation, Experiential Learning, Group Dynamics