Welcome to EOE 414

1. Welcome to EOE 414 Implementation of Outdoor Education Programs: Sustaining Wellbeing through Health, Outdoor and Physical Education (HOPE): Pedagogy in education

2. Agenda for today Challenging our understanding of the purpose of education The Lived Curriculum and Implications Intention Two Draft Concept of Sustainability Concept of Community Concept of Humility

4. Sustainability Community Humility What experiences have you had that have shaped your life?

5. In Leopold’s (1949/1968) eyes: A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity of stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. (p. 224-225) “what kind of world are we leaving for our children and grandchildren?” should have been augmented to include also; “and what kind of children and grandchildren are we leaving for our world?”

6. the phenomenological absence of knowledge-filled experiences that engage and mesh these students in the realities of education for sustainable development continues to be overlooked. community identifies itself by an understood mutuality of interests. But it lives and acts by the common virtues of trust, goodwill, forbearance, self-restraint, compassion, and forgiveness. If it hopes to continue long as a community, it will wish to – and will have to – encourage respect for all its members, human and natural. (Berry, 1993, p.120)

7. The fact that a Teacher’s word can change a life; that a Political Scientist’s attitude may affect masses, or that an Engineer’s actions can affect the overall planet’s ecosystem ought to cause most people to pause. Understanding the gravity of being professionally skilled is true humility. Being “understanding” and living the “feeling of thankfulness” is its result.

8. With gratitude comes responsibility. With gratitude comes an integral understanding of sustainability and community. Visser (2008) clarifies that: gratitude is necessary for the functioning of a healthy society, precisely because it reaches into areas of life that the law can neither control or inspire … we have to retrieve now and bring back into the light something that gratitude entails: respect for what is there, love for it (for itself and not for what we can gouge out of it). (p. 360)

9. Visser (2008) [humility through] gratitude, replacing selfishness, greed, and disregard, will in my opinion have to be called upon to help us surmount the ecological [and social] crisis [injustices] that now threatens our very existence. (p. 360)

10. What is the purpose of education Environmental Education. Population Education. Development Education, Energy Education HIV/AIDS Education. Permaculture Education, Citizenship Education, Democracy Education. Consumer Education Media Education, Outdoor Education, Experiential Education, Workplace Education, Conservation Education, Anti-Racist Education, Religious Education, Equity Education, Gender Education, Holocaust Education Entrepreneurship Education, Horticulture Education, Water Education Global Education Drug Education. Sex Education. International Studies. Family Studies. Human Rights Education, Women's Studies, Native Studies, Values Education. Natural History Education, Vocational Education, Economic Education, Anti-smoking Education, Conflict Resolution Education. Workplace education Disaster Prevention Education, Computer Studies, Life-Skills Education, Recycling Education, Civics Education, Heritage Education, Community Studies, Multicultural Education, Anti-Violence Education, Systems Thinking Education, Futures Education, Biodiversity Education, Pioneer Studies, Nutrition Education, Resource Management Education, Self-Image Education, Peace Education, Leadership Education, Cooperative Education, Character Education, Sexual Orientation Education (80 plus) We are not creating Sustainability Education as #81

11. So . . . What is Outdoor Education Anyway? and . . . How do I deal with Intention Three?

12. Understanding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) – developing a personal position paper based upon current research and thinking relevant to local, national and international perspective associated with ESD and the University of Regina Strategic Plan (2009 – 2014). Built upon the Elements of Gravity: Sustainability, Community and Humility

13. it is important to understand the relevance and integral nature of three key conceptual elements … these elements are cohesively linked …. concepts of sustainability, community, and a third; humility, born out of gratitude are the ingredients which collectively provide the foundation for making sense of what … education needs to become.

14. Creative TensionChallenging our understanding of the purpose of education OUTDOOR LIVING SKILLS CONTENT KNOWLEDGE SENSORY AWARENESS WITHITNESS REFLECTIVE ARTFUL/AESTHETIC LIVED EXPERIENCE

15. Emotional Current Reality Current Reality Vision Vision TENSION Creative Creative and Emotional TensionChallenging our understanding of the purpose of education

16. Preparing for February 10th Site Inventory (please take notes) • Collecting data • Data collection equipment and materials • Dress for weather conditions • Bring a snack and drink

17. Next Experience E 312 Classroom Dean Dodge – the Role of Recreation and Education