Australian Journal of Outdoor Education
Contents
Volume 15, Number 2, 2011
Editorial
Robyn
Zink
Refereed Papers
Balancing more than backpacks: Communitarian ideas applied to educational expeditions
Jerry Isaak
The substance beneath the labels of experiential learning: The Importance of John Dewey for outdoor educators
Jon Ord and Mark Leather
Nature and its influence on children’s outdoor play
Kellie Dowdell, Tonia Gray, and Karen Malone
Non-refereed Papers
Parent expectations of a 27 day extended stay outdoor education school program (ESOESP)
Dale G. Hobbs
Book Review
Outdoor Education, Foundations for Tertiary and Senior Secondary Education
Reviewed by Nicole Taylor
Thesis Profiles
Wild adventures in wellbeing: Foundations, features and wellbeing impacts of Australian outdoor adventure interventions (OAI)
Anita Pryor
River experience: A phenomenological description of meaningful experiences on a wilderness river journey
Marcus Morse
Volume 15, Number 1, 2011
Editorial
Robyn
Zink
Refereed Papers
Outdoor leadership education: Do recent textbooks focus on the right
content?
Glyn Thomas
‘Dreadful things can happen:’ Cautionary tales for the safe practitioner
Ros Sullivan, Vicki Carpenter, & Alison Jones
Examining naturalistic decision making in outdoor adventure contexts by computer
simulation
Mike Boyes & David O’Hare
Research update 2010: Outdoor education fatalities in Australia
Andrew Brookes
Book Review
A pedagogy of place: Outdoor education for a changing world
Reviewed by Robyn Zink
Volume 14, Number 2, 2010
Editorial
Glyn Thomas
Viewpoint Paper
Outdoor education and the national curriculum in Australia
Peter Martin
Refereed Papers
Control as an educational tool and its impact on the outdoor educational
process
Ina Stan
The constitution of outdoor education groups: An analysis of the literature
Robyn Zink
An introduction to the constraints-led approach to learning in outdoor
education
Eric Brymer & Ian Renshaw
Try this! Imitation and copying in the outdoor learning world of sea
kayaking
Leif I Magnussen
Volume 14, Number 1, 2010
Editorial
Glyn Thomas
Refereed
Papers
The outdoor classroom: School camping as education in NSW 1890-1960s
Steve Georgakis & Richard Light
Transfer: Outdoor adventure education’s Achilles heel? Changing
participation as a viable option
Mike Brown
Effective, exemplary, extraordinary? Towards an understanding of
extraordinary outdoor leadership
Heidi Smith & Dawn Penney
Reflections on beliefs and practices from New Zealand outdoor educators:
Consistencies and conflicts
Allen Hill
Cooperative education in outdoor education
Andy Martin & Jenny Fleming
Book Review
Quality Lesson Plans for Outdoor Education
Reviewed by Scott Polley
Volume 13, Number 2, 2009
Editorial
Glyn Thomas
Refereed Papers
Reconceptualising outdoor adventure
education: Activity in search of an appropriate theory
Mike Brown
Bushwalking and access: The Kosciusko Primitive Area debate 1943-6
Deirdre Slattery
Well-being and outdoor pedagogies in primary schooling: The nexus of
well-being and safety
Barbara Humberstone and Ina Stan
Equine-assisted therapies: Complementary medicine or not?
Katherine T Ratliffe and Cindy Sanekane
Book Reviews
Other ways of learning
Reviewed by Kathleen Pleasants
Technical skills for adventure programming: A curriculum guide
Reviewed by Scott Polley
Volume 13, Number 1, 2009
Editorial
Glyn Thomas
Refereed Papers
Communicating risk with parents:
Exploring the methods and beliefs of outdoor education co-ordinators in
Victoria, Australia
Clare Dallat
A tale of three journals: A study of papers published in AJOE, JAEOL and
JEE between 1998 and 2007
Glyn Thomas, Tom Potter, & Pete
Allison
From the outside looking in: A study of Australian employers’
perceptions of graduates from outdoor education degree programs
Brendon Munge
The enhancement of resilience via a wilderness therapy program: A
preliminary investigation
Edward Gillespie & Sandy Allen-Craig
Book
Reviews
Teaching adventure education theory: Best practices
Reviewed by Scott Polley
Volume 12, Number 1, 2008
Editorial
Glyn Thomas
Refereed Papers
Comfort Zone: Model or metaphor?
Mike Brown
Outdoor education in senior schooling: Clarifying the body of knowledge
Peter Martin
Slow pedagogy and placing education in post traditional outdoor education
Philip G Payne & Brian Wattchow
Non-refereed Papers
Eco-mentoring: Using nature as a guide to destiny?
David Kowalewski
Book Reviews
Nature First: Outdoor life the friluftsliv way
Reviewed by Dierdre Slattery
The ways of the bushwalker: On foot in Australia
Reviewed by Alistair Stewart
Teams for a new generation: A facilitator's field guide
Reviewed by Roger Greenaway
Volume 11, Number 2, 2007
Editorial
Glyn Thomas
Refereed Papers
Can we move beyond 'Indigenous good,
non-Indigenous bad' in thinking about people and the environment?
Robyn Zink
Skill instruction in outdoor leadership: A comparison of a direct
instruction model and a discovery-learning model
Glyn Thomas
Outdoor and Environmental Studies: More challenges to its place in the
curriculum
Annette Gough
Sustaining Adventure in New Zealand Outdoor Education: Perspectives from
renowned New Zealand Outdoor Adventurers on the contested cultural understanding of
Adventure
Maurice J Kane and Hazel Tucker
What outcomes are we trying to achieve in our outdoor education
programs? Beth McLeod & Sandy Allen-Craig
Preventing death and serious injury from falling trees and branches
Andrew Brookes
Book
Reviews
Adventure education: Theory and applications
Reviewed by Mark Munnings
Patriots: Defending Australia’s natural heritage 1946–2004
Reviewed by Alistair Stewart
A Teachable moment: A facilitator’s guide to activities for processing,
debriefing, reviewing and reflection
Reviewed by Glyn
Thomas
Volume 11, Number 1, 2007
Editorial
Glyn Thomas
Refereed Papers
Research update: Outdoor education
fatalities in Australia
Dr Andrew Brookes
Playing with an unstoppable force: Paddling, river-places and outdoor
education
Dr Brian Wattchow
The role of stillness and quiet when developing human/nature
relationships
Val Nicholls & Dr Tonia Gray
The Challenge Course Facilitator Technical Skills Assessment Tool
Dr Mark Wagstaff & Dr William Quinn
Non-refereed PapersChoosing the ‘right’ space to work in: Reflections prior to a nature
therapy session
Ronen Berger
Recording in the wilds: A reflection on research-technology needs on an
expedition
Paul Stonehouse
Book
Reviews
Outdoor leadership: Theory and practice
Reviewed by Dr Brian Wattchow
Interdisciplinary teaching through outdoor education
Reviewed by Kathleen Pleasants
Outdoor activities, negligence and the law
Reviewed by Dr Andrew Brookes
Volume 10, Number 2, 2006
Editorial
Glyn
Thomas
Refereed Papers
The special nature of the outdoors: Its
contribution to the education of children aged 3-11
Bernie
Davis, Tony Rea, & Sue Waite
Effective
leadership: Transformational or transactional?
Eric
Brymer & Tonia Gray
Effects
of a five-day Outward Bound course on female students in Singapore
C
K John Wang, Woon-Chia Liu & Abdul Kahlid
How
do outdoor leaders feel connected to nature places? A Q-Method inquiry
Garrett
Hutson & Diane Montgomery
Facilitating
experiences: A snap shot of what is happening out there
Tracey
Dickson & Tonia Gray
The
rise of individualism The implications for promoting relations between self, others
and the environment in outdoor education
Robert Hales
Non-refereed Papers
Ethno-ecological
education: Aboriginals teaching nature at a winter camp in the Canadian Arctic
Claude
Doucette, Peggy Ransom & David Kowalewski
Volume
10, Number 1, 2006
Refereed Papers
City Slickers: Let the cattle speak for
themselves
Ray Woodcock
The
nature and scope of outdoor education in New Zealand schools
Dr
Robyn Zink & Dr Michael Boyes
Influences
on a modern outdoor education organisation's philosophy
Dr
Peter Barnes
Some
outdoor educators' experiences of outdoor education
Terry
Gunn
Non-refereed Papers
An outdoor education body of knowledge
Chris
Bucknell & Andrew Mannion
Links
between kayaking, fear, confidence and competence: Factors affecting women's
participation in paddling in a tertiary outdoor education course
Peter
Dingle & Dr Jackie Kiewa
Knowing
our Place: A perspective on the contribution of outdoor education and its
relationship with the outdoor recreation industry
Mark
Dingle
Volume
9, Number 2, 2005
Refereed Papers
“If you don’t mind going places without a
map, follow me:” Re-stor(y)ing of self, place and educator
Genny
Blades
Maybe
what they say is what they experience: Taking students words seriously
Robyn
Zink
Turbulent
times: Outdoor education in Great Britain 1993–2003
Pete
Allison & John Telford
How
are student approaches to learning navigation correlated with their assessment
outcomes?
Marc P Bellette
Cultural
adaptation in outdoor programming
Sheila M Fabrizio
& James T Neill
Non-refereed Papers
John’s
story: Teaching Victorian Certificate of Education Outdoor and Environmental
Studies
Tony Keeble
The
Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers: Safe from more dams but still vulnerable
Sas
Allardice
Who
is Responsible?
John Dowd
Volume
9, Number 1, 2005
Refereed Papers
Outdoor
education and bush adventure therapy: A socio-ecological approach to health and
wellbeing
Anita
Pryor, Cathryn Carpenter & Mardie Townsend
Expeditions
and the social construction of the self
Simon Beames
Examining
art and technology: Determining why craft-making is fundamental to outdoor
education
Zabe MacEachren
Traditional
adventure activities in outdoor environmental education
Glyn
Thomas
Community-based
outdoor education using a local conservation approach
Kazushi
Maeda
Non-refereed Papers
Learning
about the outdoors
John Dowd
Outward
Bound Australia: Integrating vocational education into the workplace
Tracey
Dickson & Zoe Herbert
Volume
8, Number 2, 2004
Refereed Papers
Adventures in paradox
Pip
Lynch & Kevin Moore
If
Burke had been a naturalist : Telling and re-telling national narratives
Deirdre
Slattery
Astride
a long-dead horse: Mainstream outdoor education theory and the central
curriculum problem
Andrew Brookes
Pedagogy
of connections: Findings of a collaborative action research project in outdoor
and environmental education
Lou Preston & Amma Griffiths
Decolonising
encounters with the Murray River: Building place-responsive outdoor educations
Alistair
Stewart
A
picture is worth capturing meaning and
facilitating connections: Using outdoor education students’ photographs
TA
Loeffler
Climbing
Mount Everest: Women, career and family in outdoor education
Linda
Allin
Volume
8, Number 1, 2004
Editorial
Almut
Beringer
Introduction
to the Outdoor Council of Australia
Zoe Herbert
Refereed Papers
Outdoor adventure in Australian outdoor
education: Is it a case of roast for Christmas dinner?
Alison
Lugg
Making
connections with nature: Bridging the theory – practice gap in outdoor and
environmental education
Lou Preston
Outdoor
adventure in promoting relationships with nature
Peter
Martin
Overseas
youth expeditions with Raleigh International: A rite of passage
Simon
Beames
A
Project Hahn empirical replication study
Paul Lan, Rob
Sveen & John Davidson
Outdoor
education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002 Part 3: Environmental circumstances
Andrew Brookes
Volume 7 Number
2, 2003
The
End of an Era: Welcome to the Outdoor Council of Australia
Jackie
Kiewa
Refereed Papers
The Nature and Scope of Outdoor Education
in South Australia: A Summary of Key Findings
Scott
Polley & Bronte Pickett
Reinvigorating
our love of our home range: exploring the connections between sense of place
and outdoor education.
Alistair Stewart
Paraphrases
and summaries: A means of clarification or a vehicle for articulating a
preferred version of student accounts?
Mike Brown
Outdoor
education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002 Part 2: Contributing circumstances:
supervision, first aid, and rescue.
Andy Brookes
Vivisecting
the Tui: The Qualifications Framework and outdoor leadership development in New
Zealand
Steve Crosby & John Benseman
Publishing
spurious research findings won't build a profession: Response to Brand's (2001)
evaluation of the Wilderness Enhanced Program
Simon
Crisp
Can
Journaling Be Taught? An Exploratory Study
Janet E. Dyment
& Timothy S. O’Connell
Volume 7 Number
1, 2003
Editorial
James
Neill
Viewpoint
Do Environmental Goals in Outdoor Education Reflect Client-needs or Outdoor
Educator-needs?
Tony Pammer
Refereed Papers
Rethinking Professional Pathways for the
Australian Outdoor Industry/Profession
Kathy Mann
Does
Pushing Comfort Zones Produce Peak Learning Experiences?
Sarah
I Leberman & Andrew J Martin
Outdoor
Education Fatalities in Australia 1960-2002 Part 1: Summary Of Incidents and
Introduction to Fatality Analysis
Andrew Brookes
Determining
Readiness for Therapeutic Adventure Programs: The Transtheoretical Model
Karen
K Pearce & Michael A Boyes
Students
Caring for Each Other: Outdoor Education and Learning Through Peer
Relationships
John Quay, Stewart Dickinson & Brian
Nettleton
Work
Related Stress in the Outdoor Education Profession: A Management Perspective
Glyn
Thomas
Non-refereed
Papers
Motive of Service
Kathy Mann
Volume 6, Number 2, 2002
Viewpoint
Might
Outdoor Education Help Develop Intelligence?
Rob Hogan
Refereed Papers
On the Construction, Deconstruction and Reconstruction
of Experience in 'Critical' Outdoor Education
Philip Payne
Ethical
Adventures: Can we justify overseas youth expeditions in the name of education?
Pete
Allison & Pete Higgins
Investigating
the Inward Sounds of Outward Bound
Andrew Martin & Stephen Legg
Wages
and Conditions of the Victorian Outdoor Education Profession
Sandy Allen-Craig
& Bettina Moonen
Exploring
Expedition Research Methodology
Eric Brymer
Experiential
Learning: Using comic strips as 'reflective tools' in adult learning
Colin Beard
& Toby Rhodes
Non-refereed
Papers
The
Crux of Risk Management in Outdoor Programs - Minimising the Risk of Death and
Disabling Injury
Rob Hogan
Outdoor
Education and the Reinforcement of Heterosexuality
Annie Dignan
Book
Reviews
Climbing Lessons – Inside Outdoor Education
Reviewed by Bertie Everand
The
Power of Experiential Learning: A handbook for trainers and educators
Reviewed by David
Mepham
Volume 6, Number 1, 2001
Viewpoint
Outdoor
Education in Australia: Ruminating, Reflecting and Redefining: Why was I attracted
to outdoor education?
Tonia Gray
Refereed Papers
Beyond Didactics: A reconnaissance of experiential
learning
Johan Hovelynck
Thriving
In The Outdoor Education Profession: Learning from Australian practitioners
Glyn
Thomas
A
Deepening Relationship With Place
Carol Birrell
Calculating
Risks: Fine’s Mathematical Formula 30 Years Later
Tracey J Dickson
A
Longitudinal Study of the Effects of a Wilderness-Enhanced Program on Behaviour-Disordered
Adolescents
Dell Brand
The
Australian Journal of Outdoor Education: A Review of the First Five Years
James
T Neill & Tonia Gray
Non-refereed
Papers
The “Reasonable Man” Test: Or How Do We Know What You Did Was Safe?
Mark
Collard
Volume 5 Number 2, 2001
Viewpoint
Simple,
Sophisticated and Committed: Ways ahead for Outdoor Education in Australia
James
Neill
Refereed Papers
Stepping Around Things": Gender Relationships
In Climbing
Jackie Kiewa
Seeing
The Unseen: A Rock Climbing Experience
Lou Preston
A
Pedagogy Of Production: Craft, Technology And Outdoor Education
Brian Wattchow
What
Can Environmental History Offer Outdoor Education Practitioners?
Deirdre
Slattery
'Dramaturgy':
An Holistic Approach To Outdoor Education
Andrew Martin
The
Nature And Scope Of Outdoor Education In Victorian Schools
Alison Lugg &
Peter Martin
Investigating
The History Of Outdoor Education In South Australia
Bronte Pickett & Scott
Polley
Volume 5 Number 1, 2000
Viewpoint
Can
We Live Life Without Risk?
Tracey J Dickson
Refereed Papers
How are Adventure Education Program Outcomes
Achieved? A review of the Literature
Marcia D McKenzie
An
Holistic Model Of Bush Counselling: Cornerstones Of Practice
Allan Adams &
Rob Sveen
Interpersonal
Relationships As A Metaphor For Human-Nature Relationships
Peter Martin &
Glyn Thomas
Moving
Water Paddling As Critical Outdoor Education
Glyn Thomas & Jeff Thomas
Non-refereed
Papers
Wilderness Therapy And Women In Recovery
Marijke Price
Blueprint
For Qualifications And Accreditation in Oz and NZ
Simon Priest
Maitland
Youth Outdoor Experience
Brendan Barrett
Volume 4, Number 2, 2000
Viewpoint
Competence:
Not Just For Instructors
Jackie Kiewa
Refereed Papers
The Power To Change Through The Change To
Power: Narrative Therapy, Power and the Wilderness Enhanced Model
Paul Stolz
Risk
In Outdoor Activities: The Perception, The Appeal, The Reality
Tracey Dickson,
Jenny Chapman & Margot Hurrell
Wilderness
And Delinquents: Strategies For Avoiding A 'Lord Of The Flies'* Experience
Dell
Brand & Mark Smith
A
Research Agenda For Adventure Education
Geoff Nichols
An
Analysis And Profile Of Major Emotional Episodes And Their Antecedents, On A
Six Day Wilderness Expedition
Stewart Dickinson
"The
Scent Of My World": A Student's Perceptual Knowing Of Outdoor Experiencing
Johnna
Haskell
Non-refereed
Papers
Vulnerability and Leadership in Outdoor Education
Tiffany Hodgson
Volume 4, Number 1, 1999
Viewpoint
Daring
to Care? Humans, nature and outdoor education
Peter Martin
Refereed Papers
Two Vital Aspects In The Facilitation Of Groups:
Connections and containment
Martin Ringer
Facilitating
The Development Of Generative Metaphors: Re-emphasizing participants’ guiding
images
Johan Hovelynck
Directions
In Outdoor Education Curriculum
Alison Lugg
On
Adventure Therapy And Earth Healing: Toward a sacred cosmology
Almut Beringer
Key
Elements Of A Successful Wilderness Program For Delinquents: A summary
Dell
Brand & Mark Smith
Japanese
Students Down-Under: Is Australian outdoor education relevant to other
cultures?
Nola Purdie & James Neill
Non-refereed
Papers
Breathing Like A Mountain
Carol Birrell
Volume 3, Number 2, 1999
Viewpoint
When
Will We Fly?
Ray Handley
Refereed PapersThe Metronomic Society And The Natural Environment
Brian
Nettleton
Nature-Guided
Therapy: A Case Example Of Ecopsychology In Clinical Practice
George W Burns
How
People Change: Implications For Outdoor Educators
Sandy Gordon, Steve Houghton
& Julie Edwards
If
Only You Knew What I've Just Done: Adolescent Memories From A Tasmanian Wilderness
Primary
Carey J Denholm & Robert L Sveen
Learning
From Our Mistakes - Before It Is Too Late
Mark Brackenreg
Traffic
Light Decision Making
Ian Boyle & Murray Toft
Non-refereed
Papers
Rediscovering Our Indigenous Heart
Graham Ellis-Smith
Client
Change Analysis
Tracey Dickson
Facilitator's
Notebook - The Soft Skills Of Wilderness: Interacting Effectively With Delinquents
Dell
Brand & Mark Smith
Volume 3, Number 1, 1998
Refereed Papers
Does Outdoor Education Really Work? A Summary
Of Recent Meta-Analyses
James Neill & Garry Richards
Go
Tell It On A Mountain And Let The Process Grow
Ray Handley
Education
Ideology And Outdoor Leadership Education: Why ORCA And The AOEC Exist
Peter
Martin
Exploring
Together Outdoors: A Family Therapy Approach Based In The Outdoors For Troubled
Mother / Daughter Relationships
Robyn Mulholland & Antony Williams
Home
From The Woods And Into The Doghouse
Scott MacNaughton
'Burnout'
- What is it to you?
Robyn Edwards & Tonia Gray
Wilderness-Adventure
Therapy In Adolescent Mental Health
Simon Crisp & Matt O'Donnell
A
Way For A National Outdoor Leader Course
Lesley Manfield & James Pearse
Volume 2, Number 3, 1997
Viewpoint
The
role, history and future of an Australian journal of outdoor education
Jay
Henderson
Refereed Papers
First aid training for outdoor educators:
The more the better?
Andrew Brookes
Kids
on Top II
Peter Holmes
Wilderness-adventure
therapy in adolescent psychiatry
Simon Crisp & Nicole Aunger
Non-refereed
PapersOutdoor education in Norway
Simon Priest
Friluftsliv
- a way home
Nils Faarlund
Volume 2, Number 2, 1996
Refereed Papers
Emotional safety in adventure therapy programs:
Can it be defined?
(Reprinted
with permission from AEE Journal
of Experiential Education)
Suzanne M Vincent
Processing
the experience - Broadening the Vision
Tracey J Dickson
The
efficacy of journalism as a reflective tool
Peter McKenna & Jackie Kiewa
Non-refereed
Papers
Profile of Dr Norm McIntyre
Jackie Kiewa & Terry Brown
Volume 2, Number 1, 1996
Refereed Papers
Outdoor education and physical education in
the national curriculum
(reprinted
with acknowledgement to JAEOL [UK])
A P Williams
When
does wilderness adventure become therapeutic? The need for broader frameworks:
Experiential Reconstruction of developmental foundation
Simon Crisp
Outdoor
management development: Changing an Organisation's culture
Bruce Hayllar &
Tracy Taylor
Non-refereed
Papers
Obituary: Professor John Sutton
Volume 1, Number 3, 1996
Refereed Papers
New perspectives of self, nature and others
Peter
Martin
The
role of outdoor education in the 21st century
Geoff Cooper
Thoughts
on managing directors in adventure programs
Simon Priest
Volume 1, Number 2, 1995
Refereed Papers
Passion and aliveness in outdoor leadership:
Leadership competencies from recreation to therapy
Martin Ringer
Applying
the adventure-react model
Terry Brown
Non-refereed
Papers
Lesley Pearce: A role model and inspiration
Pre-post
abseil anxiety and perceptions of cliff difficulty
James Neill & Bernd
Heubeck
Volume 1, Number 1, 1995
Sea
Trek - A mechanism for working with youth at risk
John
Lally & Keith Cook
Transformational
Moments in outdoor education
Brian
Nettleton
A
constructivist approach to environmental education
Sylvia
Pilla & David Tulip