Describes a joint American and Russian environmental service project in which 26 American secondary students, teachers, and environmentalists set up an environmental learning center in Novgorod (Russia) and provided training in the use of environmental laboratory equipment. Discusses the interpersonal connections and culture conflict experienced…

The Americans with Disabilities Act demands a proactive approach in developing effective and integrated adventure education programs for the disabled. Programs cannot exclude qualified disabled individuals; modified participation is a choice, not a requirement; and staff must work toward removing physical barriers and providing reasonable…

Explores emotional and spiritual bonds to the land as they are expressed through poetry, song, or visual arts. Describes four principal components of a sense of place, based on conversations with the Chipewyan Dene and Caribou Inuit (natives of the Thelon Game Sanctuary in Canada's Northwest Territories) and various forms of experiential learning.…

The recipient of the 1992 Kurt Hahn Award proposes that the most prominent social problem today is alienation, which is related to the faulty relationships that the dominant society has to the land and to Native people. One road to healing involves assimilation of indigenous virtues such as honesty, respect, sharing, and strength. (LP)

Describes a competence/risk theory that hypothesizes that people can use personal competence to influence the probabilities of success or failure in an adventure, providing their perceptions are correct. In a series of linked pathways and feedback loops, a model illustrates the impact of a risk-taking activity on the participant's emotional and…

Spurred by a graduate course in feminist theory, the author reflects on male power and privilege, and how to divest himself of both. Rebuilding an inherited family house provides a metaphor for the process of self-examination and growth. (KS)

Links Grundtvig's philosophy of folk education with American adult education and experiential education. Addresses obstacles to incorporating principles of folk education within conventional educational institutions. Emphasizes the folk-education philosophy that control of learning must be passed back to the student. (KS)

Early human methods of seeing, being, and pattern-learning based on relationships with nature have been abandoned for the acquisitive mentality of industrialized society and fragmented education fueled by sublimated sexual energy. The Breaking Through program provides outdoor experiences that reestablish understanding of and love for the land…

Experiential education can provide a framework for transmitting and inculcating the values and philosophy of deep ecology. The ideal outdoor experiential program would include the deep-ecology principles of (1) knowledge and sense of place; (2) wholeness of self; (3) identification with nature; (4) integrity of program practices with espoused…

A "speak-out tour" of five New York City high schools allowed refugee and inner-city young people to share their experiences of war, violence, and mistreatment. Their stories taught their teacher and their audiences about empathy and moral knowledge. (KS)

A sixth-grade class built a yurt (a circular building with a conelike roof) for the playground of a special-education school. The goals of the project were to teach mathematics experientially and to facilitate growth through community service. Includes instructions and diagrams for building yurts. (KS)

Describes Robert Terry's ethical principles for leadership that have been adopted by the outdoor adventure organization, Woodswomen, for their leadership training process. Leader tasks correspond to each of the following ethical principles: (1) dwelling (acknowledging one's own history and values); (2) freedom; (3) justice; (4) participation; (5)…

Metaphoric learning in corporate training should be "isomorphic" (paralleled experiences bearing strong resemblances to one another) for change to occur. In addition, the outcomes of the newly created metaphor must be different from the preexisting condition if change is to occur. (KS)

The focus of aikido training is conflict resolution and the goal is to communicate with another human being. Aikido training can be applied to all areas of life. Like experiential education, aikido allows risk taking in a safer place than the "real world." (KS)

The Electric Maze is an interactive learning device that promotes group learning skills among management teams. It provides a "practice field" where participants can explore and apply the principles of effective teamwork under realistic conditions of uncertainty, discomfort, and mistakes. This training aims to enable management teams to…