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

• What is the meaning of Outdoor Education
• Challenging our understanding of the purpose of
  education
• Concept of Sustainability
• Neil Postman the End of Education
• Walker Hopefulness

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In your learning group share your jot notes and
ideas related to your understanding of Coming to
Our Senses and be prepared to discuss in the
larger group

• interconnectedness and sustainability separate
  issues in schools
• Cannot get sustainability without
  interconnectedness
• Pump instead of well . . . Short term fixes
  instead of taking time to understand the problem
• Reactive rather than proactive
• Focus on mathematics and science to support
  industry and factories
• Loss of opportunities due to liabilities

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Outdoor Education
Definitions definitions

• Outdoor Education is an educational
  methodological process or pedagogy
• that is interdisciplinary in scope
• that is experiential in nature
• that takes advantage of unique learning
  environments
• that involves all senses and,
• that is spiritual in outcome.

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InterdisciplinarityLink

• Meaning Interdisciplinarity occurs when
  disciplines intermesh and collaborate among
  themselves.
• The notion provides students with an opportunity
  to create and pursue interdependent, innovative
  teaching which does not fit into traditional
  disciplinary categories.

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ExperientialLink

• "experiential education is a process through
  which a learner constructs knowledge, skill and
  value from direct experience."

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Learning Environments
EQUINOX March 20, September 22
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SpiritualityLink

• Spiritual wellness does not just happen. It
  requires time and attention. Unless it is
  nourished and exercised regularly, it will not be
  there to support us when we need it to counteract
  cynicism and despair. How do we go about getting
  in touch with our core and developing into
  spiritually healthy beings? A first step is to
  create an atmosphere that invites spiritual
  development. Time must be set aside to be quiet
  for solitude, reflection, and meditation.

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Multi-sensory Link

• Albert Einstein said, 'Learning is experiencing.
  Everything else is just information.' His insight
  suggests that we must experience our learning by
  using our complex sensory systems. Our species
  has an innate need to see, touch, taste, feel,
  and hear the features of any new object in order
  to understand it better," (Wesson, 2002).

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• Challenging our understanding of the purpose of
  education

http//www.ted.com/index.php/talks/chris_jordan_pi
ctures_some_shocking_stats.html
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. . . The crisis of sustainability, the fit
between humanity and its habitat, is manifest in
varying ways and degrees everywhere on earth. It
is not only a permanent feature on the public
agenda for all practical purposes it is the
agenda. (Orr, 1992)
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The content of our curriculum and the process of
education, with a few notable exceptions, has not
changed what is apparent is that we do not
worry about what our children and young people
learn and how well they learn it until a crisis
happens along. The crisis cannot be solved by
the same kind of education that helped create the
problems (Orr, 1992)
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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
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Creative TensionChallenging our understanding of
the purpose of education
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http//www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12212007/watch.h
tml
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• Suzuki Speaks
• the key themes
• the education link

http//www.davidsuzuki.org/default-donate.asp?sour
ceDonateSplash
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
sagacity 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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Purpose GoalsExpectationsCourse
OutlineExpectations
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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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Next Experience

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