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Welcome to EOE 414. Implementation of Outdoor Education Programs : Sustaining Wellbeing through Health, Outdoor and Physical Education (HOPE): Pedagogy in education. http://www.miniature-earth.com/me_english.htm. http://www.cmec.ca/releases/press.en.stm?id=86. Agenda for today.
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Welcome to EOE 414 Implementation of Outdoor Education Programs: Sustaining Wellbeing through Health, Outdoor and Physical Education (HOPE): Pedagogy in education
http://www.miniature-earth.com/me_english.htm http://www.cmec.ca/releases/press.en.stm?id=86
Agenda for today Last Child in the Woods Articulating your “passion.” Developing and implementing Lafleche.
Integrality Ownership Traditional Process Experiential Multi-sensory Unique learning environments Interdisciplinarity Spiritual Groupness Trust Risk Responsibility
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_b/b_mod06.htmhttp://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_b/b_mod06.htm
Framed the environment the wrong way Need for community connectedness Numbers Technology Consumerism externalities hopefulness Loss of place mindfulness
It is not what we learn, but how we learn I that affects us Discovery – “Google it!” Environmentally literate We need foundational skills in order to learn and then understand! Drastically Integrated – Subject – Interdisciplinary What does EFFORT mean?
How has your concept of “outdoor education” changed since you were first introduced to it years ago? What, if any, learning experiences have influenced your thinking. What is the purpose of learning outdoor living skills and what if anything does sustainability have to do with them?
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. (T. Huxley)
Ecophobia . . . . The fear of ecological deterioration . . . “if we fill our classrooms with examples of environmental abuse, we may be engendering a subtle form of dissociation.” (denial) . . . Emotionally, they turn off. Silicon Faith “we have industrialized the classroom to the extent that there is no room for nature in the curriculum.” Death of Natural History
W. F. Ready the Bushes Where Will the Future Stewards of Nature Come From? Boundaries of children’s lives are growing ever tighter Welcome to Matrix National Park The protection of nature depends on more than the organizational strength or stewardship organizations: it also depends on the quality of the relationship between the young and nature – on how, or if, the you attach to nature.
Stopping and contemplating your life experience to date Catch something from it and learn about it Prepare jot notes and compile resources that support your passion Share your ideas and way of thinking Develop a text considering: an introduction; the development; and, the conclusions to be drawn Articulating your passion
Developing and implementing Lafleche Research and Responsibility What do we know and need to know: • about its geography – the land • Formations • Resources • Location • about its wildlife – indigenous/non-indigenous • Fauna and Flora • about its people – those before/those now • Culture • Ethnicity • Gender • about its community • about its . . . Where are we at?
Next Experience . The Lafleche Experience Decision-making time Responses from the children Equipment/Outdoor Living Skills!