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Direct linkEwert, Alan; Wu, Guan-Jang – Journal of the Wilderness Education Association, 2007
Outdoor adventure activities such as whitewater boating, caving, rock climbing, and mountaineering continue to be popular among the public. As a result of this popularity, numerous organizations "contract out" the leadership and delivery of the adventure portion of their curriculum. This paper explores two widely used venues for offering outdoor…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Outdoor Leadership, Risk, Decision Making Skills
Download full textCinnamon, Jerry – 1989
This paper outlines management guidelines for outdoor adventure pursuits based on analysis of accident case studies in the literature. Managing risk, to a large degree, involves managing human errors related to natural environmental hazards. The knowledge needed to manage risk may be gained through personal experience (the most dangerous way),…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Case Studies, Leadership
Schimelpfenig, Tod – 1994
This paper discusses subjective hazards in wilderness activities and suggests means of assessing and managing related risks. Wilderness educators conveniently group hazards into objective and subjective ones. Objective hazards such as rockfall, moving water, and weather, while not necessarily predictable, are visible and understandable. Subjective…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adventure Education, Attitudes, Evaluative Thinking
Roberts, Nina S., Comp. – 1993
This document contains a list of authors who have published research studies pertaining to women's experiences and adventures in the outdoor environment, a complete bibliography of their publications, and a set of abstracts of a selection of these publications in a separate section. The complete bibliography includes 124 books, journal articles,…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Camping, Females
Gilbert, Jim, Ed.; Bruner, Eric, Ed. – 1989
This proceedings contains 16 papers on recreation and adventure programming, outdoor education, and outdoor leadership training. The papers are: (1) "Beyond Recreation: Our Classroom Is Wild America" (Barry Auskern); (2) "Outward Bound Leadership Model: An Exploratory Study of Leadership Variables" (Natalie L. Bartley); (3)…
Descriptors: Accidents, Adolescents, Adventure Education, Camping
Miles, John C., Ed.; Priest, Simon, Ed. – 1990
Adventure education seeks to promote individual growth and development through the purposeful planning and implementation of educational processes that include risk in some way. This book introduces major topics in the broad literature of adventure education by bringing together 53 writings of adventure education practitioners. The writings are…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
