Beschreibung:
The book adds to the theoretical development of the fields of experiential learning and outdoor education by examining the central concept, 'experience', and interrogating a central claim of experiential learning: whether, and if so how, a short-term singular experience can transform a participant's life as a whole and in a permanent way.
Introduction, 1. Experiential pedagogy in the Czech Republic, 2. Experiential Learning in the Outdoors: The Norwegian tradition, 3. Influences on Anglophone Approaches to Outdoor Education, 4. Wilhlem Dilthey: Lived experience and the symbolic productivity of the body, 5. Learning as Differentiation of Experiential Schemas, 6. John Dewey's concept of experience, 7. The Long-term Influence of Expeditions on People's Lives, 8. Transformative Experience as a Change of Horizon