The comfort zone model is widespread within adventure education literature. It is based on
the belief that when placed in a stressful situation people will respond by overcoming their …

The book addresses a crucial issue for all involved in education and training: the transfer of
learning to new and different contexts. Educators, employers and learners face the problem …

Adventurous Learning interrogates the word 'adventure'and explores how elements of
authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational …

To optimize students' levels of skills, knowledge, and competence in higher education,
teachers have been encouraged to work systematically to understand how their pedagogical …

This international compilation brings together current leading scholars in outdoor studies
from a variety of disciplines to bring to readers principal ideas and leading-edge …

A relatively new movement in psychology, positive psychology, has many implications for
the field of outdoor education. Positive psychology has the goal of fostering excellence …

Experiential organizations often adopt quantitative course evaluation, as this provides them
with numbers to justify prescribed educational outcomes to funding bodies. However, it has …

Risk is positioned as a distinguishing feature of outdoor adventure education (OAE)
pedagogy. Risk defines much of what happens in OAE, from participants 'taking'risks to …

Outdoor adventure education (OAE) programming is often referenced as an effective
intervention that encourages a wide array of outcomes in participants such as increased …

Outdoor and experiential learning has advanced in leaps and bounds over the last 20 years.
Educators and developers in the Czech and Slovak Republics have been unexpected …