ERIC Number: EJ1382484
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-1472-9679
EISSN: EISSN-1754-0402
Autoethnographic Stories for Self and Environment: A Reflective Pedagogy to Advance 'Environmental Awareness' in Student Outdoor Practitioners
Porter, Su; Couper, Pauline
Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, v23 n1 p25-37 2023
There is increasing pressure on academic staff to enhance the graduate capabilities of students, rendering them employable as morally informed global citizens, in addition to enhancing their disciplinary knowledge, reflective practice and understanding. The BA Outdoor Adventure Education degree programme at Plymouth Marjon University, includes the module, Environmental Awareness through Adventure Sport, as one focus to engage students in the environmental ethics discourse of outdoor adventure and explore how adventure activities are managed with specific consideration to ethical environmental practices (Module Descriptor, 2016). We aim to achieve this through learning, teaching and assessment that includes journaling and autoethnography as pedagogy and research method. This approach enables students to experience nature through an adventure activity, in this instance, rock climbing. This is a human experience in a social and cultural context, in, of and for nature. Students are asked to engage with nature 'making-meaning in, about, and for the various environments' as outdoor practitioners and leaders. These lived experiences in nature have prompted us to develop a framework where future students and other outdoor leaders can develop understanding and interrogate, the multiple, complex and nuanced ways outdoor activities can engage people with nature.
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Ethics, Natural Resources, Consciousness Raising, Journal Writing, Ethnography, College Students, Student Journals
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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