Personal Growth Thru Adventure

TRAMA

This work offers useful information on how adventure educational projects can encourage personal growth in the pupil. It covers the principles of such education, looks at current issues in the field and reflects on future trends.

NOTE EDITORE

First Published in 1994. Hopkins and Putnam hold a questioning and healthily sceptical attitude towards the theory and practice of adventure education, something they claim has received insufficient reflection by practitioners on the nature of the process of adventure education. This title outlines their claims that a clear and simple exposition of principles and, consequently, practice has not been well enough informed. Written to stimulate debate, the critical stance that prompted the authors' way of thinking, and so ultimately the book, has a great deal to do with the pervading attitudes at the Outward Bound schools.

SOMMARIO

Part I Development; Chapter 1 Personal Growth Through Adventure; Chapter 2 The Foundations of Adventure Education; Chapter 3 An Era of Access and Expansion; Part II Principles; Chapter 4 Principles of Adventure Education; Chapter 5 Principles into Practice; Part III Practice; Chapter 6 Working With Young People; Chapter 7 Widening Personal and Professional Horizons; Chapter 8 Meeting Individual Needs; Part IV Themes; Chapter 9 Current Issues and Trends; Chapter 10 Reflecting on the Future;

AUTORE

David Hopkins is a tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Education and has previously worked as an Outward Bound Instructor, school teacher and university and college lecturer. He has a Ph.D from Simon Fraser University, Canada, and directs, or has directed, a number of national and local research and evaluation projects. Roger Putnam was a Town Planning officer with Middlesex County Council and, in 1962, he became an instructor at the Outward Bound Mountain School at Eskdale. Since 1990 Roger has been Chairman of the National Association for Outdoor Education.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781853461583
• Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 1.00 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 241
• Pagine Romane: xi