Welcome to EOE 414

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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
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Agenda for today

• Epilogue a perspective
• What is the meaning of Outdoor Education and
  Challenging our understanding of the purpose of
  education
• Review - Walker Hopefulness
• Neil Postman the End of Education

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Epilogue a perspective epilogue 1. the final
section of a literary work, often added by way of
explanation, comment, etc.2. a closing speech in
a play, often delivered after the completion of
the main action. epilogistic, adj.
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• Suzuki Speaks
• the key themes
• the education link

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Hope
Fostering hope a leaders first and last
task Keith D. Walker (2006)
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Fostering hope a leaders first and last task
Personalizing learning re-writing the scripts
for what schools are to look like and do
developing synergistic partnerships, amidst
complexity deliberately engage collective
prudence innovating our means and approaches to
knowledge transfer and creating situated, then
global, epidemics of educational excellence.
(Caldwell (2005)
I am simply riding on the momentum by adding
hope-fostering as a crucial element to our
re-imagining the transformational frames and
functions that we must undertake for the outcomes
we wish to attain.
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Fostering hope a leaders first and last task
leaders need to be hopeful and out of their
fullness, they need to be able to foster this
hope in others. They do this in spite of the
complexities of our times, the rigidity of our
thinking, and the deadlock and tensions of our
diverse values and aspirations
Perhaps the most important and perhaps the most
neglected leadership virtue is hope. One reason
why hope is neglected is because of management
theories that tell us to look at the evidence, to
be tough as nails, to be objective, and in other
ways blindly face reality (Sergiovanni 2007 pg.
77)
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Fostering hope a leaders first and last task
Everywhere we look, we see institutions that
appear the same as they used to be from the
outside and carry the same names, but inside have
become quite different they are what I call
shell institutions. they are institutions that
have become inadequate to the tasks they are
called upon to perform (Giddons (2000) pg. 36-37)
I believe hope displaces fear, despair,
despondency, and discontinuity
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Fostering hope a leaders first and last task
Personalizing learning re-writing the scripts
for what schools are to look like and do
developing synergistic partnerships, amidst
complexity deliberately engage collective
prudence innovating our means and approaches to
knowledge transfer and creating situated, then
global, epidemics of educational excellence.
(Caldwell (2005)
I am simply riding on the momentum by adding
hope-fostering as a crucial element to our
re-imagining the transformational frames and
functions that we must undertake for the outcomes
we wish to attain.
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Neil Postman

• An engineering Problem and a Metaphysical Problem
• A god to serve
• The Loss of Narratives
• The New Narratives of Public Education
• Fostering alternatives
• The Spaceship Earth
• The Fallen Angel
• An Experiment
• The Mission of Educators and American Culture
• Sustaining a dialogue about the metaphysical
  basis of public school

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Purpose GoalsExpectationsCourse
OutlineExpectations
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Next Experience

• Listening to Neil Postman
• Reading and Debate
• Reflecting on Educational Programming
• Developing a learning strategy