What kind of outdoor educator do you want to become? Trying something different in outdoor studies in higher education

Towers, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-2931 and Lynch, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4765-6504 (2017) What kind of outdoor educator do you want to become? Trying something different in outdoor studies in higher education. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education, 21 (A). pp. 117-121.

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Abstract

This paper seeks to explore a way of responding to tensions present in formal education and outdoor education in UK higher education. Separation of the doing from the knowing could perhaps be limiting students’ ability to become reflective practitioners and respond creatively to an ever-changing modern world. A different way of organising the curriculum through the concept of ‘occupations’ was the innovation and basis for an action research approach, with data gathered through the authors’ observations, logs and diaries. Findings suggested that not only is the connection between education and experience important, the relationship with the landscape that it takes place in is central, in conjunction with the social context. Implications are that agency and autonomy within the learning experience leads to increased motivation and understanding that the process can be open and emergent and about change.

Item Type:	Article
Journal / Publication Title:	Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1473-8376
Departments:	Academic Departments > Science, Natural Resources & Outdoor Studies (SNROS) > Outdoor Studies
Depositing User:	Daniel Towers
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2017 13:47
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2024 18:32
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/3215

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