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Publication Date:
7 Dec 2010
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Description
Experiential education is a philosophy and methodology for building knowledge, developing skills, and clarifying values by engaging learners in direct experience and focused reflection. To understand experiential education, what should one be reading? This sourcebook introduces philosophers, educators, and other practitioners whose work is relevant to anyone seeking answers to this question. Following brief snapshots of John Dewey and Kurt Hahn, the book is organized in four sections:
Philosophers and Educational Theorists
Nature Educators and Outdoor Educators
Psychologists and Sociologists
School and Program Founders.
Each chapter focuses on an individual whose philosophy and practice exemplify a biographical and historical model for reaching a deeper understanding of experiential education. An appendix includes short biographical sketches of forty-five additional people whose contributions to experiential education deserve a closer look. This volume provides a much-needed overview and foundations for the field - for students in courses addressing experiential education, challenge education, outdoor experiential education, recreation education, and related fields; for learning theorists and curriculum specialists; for experiential educators; and for educational philosophers.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1.Experiential Education and Learning by Experience, Thomas E. Smith, Clifford E. Knapp, Jayson Seaman, & Steve Pace
Part I. Philosophers and Educational Theorists
2. Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates: Ancient Greek Perspectives on Experiential Learning, Paul Stonehouse, Pete Allison, & David Carr
3. Rousseau and Pestalozzi: Emile, Gertrude, and Experiential Education Thomas E. Smith
4. Patrick Geddes: "Vivendo Discimus" - By Living We Learn, Peter Higgins & Robbie Nicol
5. Alfred North Whitehead: Educational Emergence, Jasper S. Hunt
6. Martin Buber: Dialogue, Relationship, the Other, and the More-than-Human World, Sean Blenkinsop
7. Paul Freire: Critical Praxis and Experiential Education, Mary Breunig
8. Maxine Greene: The Power of the Possible, Laurie S. Frank
9. Eleanor Duckworth: The Teacher's Teacher, Andrew Bobilya & Brad Daniel
Part II. Nature Study, Outdoor, and Environmental Education
10. Louis Agassiz: Nature and Experiential Education, Clifford E. Knapp
11. Alexander von Humboldt: Experiential Expeditionary Scientist, Brad Daniel
12. Anna Botsford Comstock: Beyond Science - Learning about Self and Nature through Field Experience, Janice L. Woodhouse & Christopher D. Wells
13. Charles Eastman and Luther Standing Bear: Two Early Indian Writiers, Clifford E. Knapp
14. Aldo Leopold: Teaching in the Spirit of the Land Ethic, Steven Simpson
15. Lloyd B. Sharp: Trailblazer in Outdoor Education, Julie Carlson
16. Rachel Carson: Inspiring a Sense of Wonder, Karen Warren & Lorene Wapotich
17. Sigurd Olson and Paul Shepard: Experiential Education and Ancient Rhythms, Bob Henderson
Part III. Psychologists & Sociologists
18. Emile Durkheim: Socialization and Education, Thomas E. Smith
19. Lev Vygotsky: Experiential Education - A View from the Future, Jayson Seaman & Mathew Gingo
20. Fritz Perls: Gestalt Therapy and Experiential Education, Thomas Lindblade
21. Kurt Lewin: Another Kurt for Experiential Educators to Know, Thomas E. Smith & Chris Leeming
22. Earl Kelley: Education for What is Real, Edward O. Raiola
23. Carl Rogers: A Way of Being an Experiential Educator, Thomas E. Smith
Part IV. School and Program Founders: Theory to Practice, Practice to Theory
24. Maria Montessori: Founding Mother of Experiential Education? Michael J. Swiderski
25. Cecil Reddie: Pioneering Headmaster, Robbie Nicol & Peter Higgins
26. Fridtjof Nansen: Adventure and Friluftsliv, Gunnar Repp
27. Juliette Gordon Low: Scouting and Experiential Education, Thomas E. Smith
28. Paul Petzoldt: Man of the Mountains, Tim O'Connell
29. Silvia Ashton-Warner: Teacher and Reflective Practitioner, Maureen Zarrella
30. Campbell Loughmiller: The Father of Therapeutic Camping, James Doncaster
31. Sidney B. Simon: Values Clarification Pioneer, Clifford E. Knapp
32. Eliot Wigginton: Foxfire - No Inert Ideas Allowed Here, Cynthia McDermott & Hilton Smith
33. Tricia Yu: The Tae of Experience, Gloree Rohnke
Appendix I. Deserving a Closer Look: Other Thinkers and Suggested Readings
Appendix II. Editors' Dialogue
Appendix III. Words of Wisdom: Selected Quotations about Experiential Education
About the Editors and the Contributing Authors
Index
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