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Showing papers in "Journal of Outdoor Education in 2008"


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TL;DR: This paper explored the face-to-face social interaction of a fictional introductory rock-climbing course and found that participants and instructors on a practical skill development weekend are involved in the complex endeavour of projecting and sustaining impressions for each other.
Abstract: Outdoor education literature has a recent history of examining its practice through a variety of sociological, philosophical, psychological, and anthropological lenses. Following this trend, this paper explores the face-to-face social interaction of a fictional introductory rock-climbing course. The analysis of this creative fiction draws on Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical framework, as described in his book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959). The discussion highlights how participants and instructors on a practical skill development weekend are involved in the complex endeavour of projecting and sustaining impressions for each other. Goffman’s concepts regarding the ways in which humans conceal and reveal information about themselves may offer outdoor education instructors and researchers a helpful perspective through which they can consider how individual participants’ actions are influenced by the perceived expectations of the different audiences they encounter.

54 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a doctoral study of young peoples' participation in organized friluftsliv and outdoor education in Denmark and New Zealand is presented, where the results are based on a qualitative approach using case study design with interviews and observations.
Abstract: The article draws on a doctoral study of young peoples' participation in organised friluftsliv and outdoor education in Denmark and New Zealand. The research questions concentrate on views of nature, values and general characteristics in friluftsliv and outdoor education. The results are based on a qualitative approach using case study design with interviews and observations. For the analysis, ethnological cultural analysis was employed combined with configuration analysis to conceptualise the data. Theories and concepts of space and place in outdoor education in New Zealand are discussed. Results from the empirical studies on outdoor education in New Zealand are discussed and compared to the cultural perspective of friluftsliv in Denmark.

26 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that connection to place and community are fundamental parts of a sustainable outdoor education paradigm and propose a framework for outdoor education based on an eco-justice and sustainability theoretical framework.
Abstract: If outdoor education is to move towards educating for a sustainable future then challenging traditional thinking and practice must facilitate this change. Informed by an eco-justice and sustainability theoretical framework this article argues that connection to place and community are fundamental parts of a sustainable outdoor education paradigm. The article draws on some preliminary interview data and analysis from a collaborative action research project with a group of Canterbury educators. In particular it unpicks how some cultural assumptions such as anthropocentrism and technological progress influence or hinder connection to place and how these assumptions are present in outdoor education. It then looks at possibilities and opportunities for outdoor education based on a sustainability framework which includes connection to and guardianship of place.

16 citations