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ISBN: 1-892132-09-5
77diagrams 512 pages (1999) $45 |
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This revised edition of Adventure Education (1991), brings together the current ideas of many practitioners of adventure programming to reveal the extent of the literature in the field, providing insight into every aspect of this ongoing movement. Change for society and communities is the altruistic end point sought by adventure programs through adventurous activities such as outdoor pursuits, initiative activities, and ropes or challenge courses which are all discussed in this text.
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John Miles is professor of environmental studies and director of the Center for Geography and Environmental Social Sciences, Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University. His teaching embraces environmental education, environmental history and ethics, and the literature of nature and place. He has written extensively about wilderness and national parks and about wildlands as learning places. Dr. Miles is an executive editor for the Journal of Environmental Education, and when not working is usually playing in his garden or in the North Cascade Mountains. |
Simon Priest is the leading researcher, writer, and consultant on corporate experiential training and development, and outdoor leadership. Dr. Priest consults for a handful of progressive corporations interested in staying ahead of their global competition by focusing on the development and maintenance of human resource relationships. His consulting expertise lies in leadership, executive development, and creating internal corporate universities. He taught at the University of Oregon, Texas A&M University, and Brock University before his retirement in 1997. He has held visiting and guest professorships at 20 universities. |
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