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ERIC Number: EJ480028
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0840-8114
Why Disturb the World Outside?
Horwood, Bert
Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, v6 n1 p5-7 Dec 1993
Outdoor education programs help students realize their "wild" nature by linking them concretely with their surroundings, providing stories that explain the natural world, encouraging feelings of wonder, and expanding identification with nature as parts of the world, previously perceived as "outside," become part of the self. (LP)
Descriptors: Children, Consciousness Raising, Ecology, Educational Objectives, Environmental Education, Identification (Psychology), Individual Development, Learning Experience, Learning Strategies, Outdoor Education, Student Attitudes
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Nature