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Spring 2007
OUTDOOR EDUCATION
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Welcome to Dialogue!
Dialogue magazine engages, informs and inspires with bright ideas and latest practices, thoughtful reflections and practical insights, points of view and points for debate. Dialogue features articles by and for Canada’s independent school educators — all focused on a particular theme.
Issue No. 4 (Spring 2007) explores the theme of Outdoor Education
Why add Mother Nature to the curriculum? Personal and professional experience, theory, practice and research consider the role of outdoor/experiential education in the education of today's students. And what it takes to do it right.
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A dozen Voices of Experience, educators from across the country, add to the lively discourse...
- Student lessons courtesy of Mother Nature
- The changing landscape of outdoor education in Canada
- Growing a school from the outdoors in
- Fitting OE in, out, around and through a curriculum
- And MORE!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Resurrection
Breathing life back into an ailing concept
James Raffan
The recurring dream goes something like this. A death has occurred. In a forest clearing stands solemnly a circle of tanned white women in polypropylene gowns (or are they made of noseeum netting? I can't tell without my glasses) and robust Caucasian men in ill-fitting Goretex blazers ...read the article
Forging a new way
Tragedy transforms the landscape of outdoor education
Sarah Wiley
It was February 3, 2003 and I was driving the hour-long commute through snowy Muskoka to work, the head office of Outward Bound Canada (OBC) in Burk’s Falls, Ontario ...read the article
From camp to school and back again
David Thompson
The evidence is in. A backcountry classroom, using all that the Canadian landscape has to offer, helps stave off childhood obesity, improves cognitive skills and offers hands-on learning ...read the article
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