This paper investigates potential mental health benefits of outdoor and adventure education
programs. It is argued that experiences made in successful programs can increase self …

Experiential settings hold great potential for empowering participants. Beginning with an
overview of how empowerment has been defined and conceptualized in the literature, this …

Many components of the social system interact with one another to produce group-level
behavior that determines the functionality of the small group in outdoor adventure education …

Empowerment is an important but understudied phenomenonExperiential Learning in
entrepreneurship education. We integrate literatures on empowerment theory and …

We conducted a qualitative study of the experiences of 23 Outdoor Adventure Education
(OAE) participants to determine what participants found significant about their course and to …

Adventurous Learning interrogates the word 'adventure'and explores how elements of
authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational …

Little research has identified issues faced by tour guiding professionals and investigations of
tour guide experiences have been neglected in favour of tourist experience and behaviour …

Despite increasing emphasis on youth contact with nature and associated benefits, research
has not examined the direct relationship between adolescents' nature-based experiences …

While much attention has been paid to what students learn in outdoor education settings,
little has been paid to the process through which that learning occurs. The purpose of this …

Introduction Many youth development programs view adolescents' process of grappling with
challenges as a major driver of social-emotional learning. Our goal was to understand these …