THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL & CONTINUING EDUCATION
Advanced Diploma In Adventure-based Leadership
Module1: Theoretical Foundations of Experiential Learning and Adventure-based Education
Individual report on the reviewed literature on use of adventure in self-efficacy and interpersonal skills
Adventure is the integration of experience and concept. Nobody can do for you.
Adventure activity or learning is widely applied among youth growth. (See appendix). Youth who receive adventure activity is fortunate because it is easier to master and apply in our daily life than traditional education.
1. Self-efficacy
Albert Bandura(1977) says the person, behavior and environment are interrelated. Experience can change one’s …show more content…
Chan Yau-wai sees learning as knowledge resulted from experience 4. Traditional American dictionary defines learning as the process through experience. Modern psychologist says learning is a permanent changing process in which experience changes one’s behavior. (Cheung Chun-hing, 2005).
Successful experience causes self-confidence and empowers self-efficacy. Learning is a line, not a point, on the time axis. It comes from experience. Through it, one makes permanent change. No thinking (or reflection), no change. “One step, one experience” is a must in growth. It is experience learning and adventure too. There are many unknown in our daily life for us to explore and experience.
E. Erikson believes each life stage is unique with specific learning need. Though there is learning failure, it is still part of our growth.
People say “one incident, one learning.”
2. Interpersonal …show more content…
This sounds good if they have got well-qualified trainers, as David A. Kolb described. However, the rapid promotion of adventure activity cause over-demand for qualified trainers. This causes adverse effect, like emergence of countless unqualified trainers.
Choy Ping-kong and Ng Hon-ming find some people think they can be capable trainers as long as they have the manual. But how can such Hong Kong fast food culture bring forth the essence of adventure learning? Are those people simple or naïve?
Adventure learning needs time and space. Limited time, countless challenges, great varieties and over-intensive program make participants no reflection! Is this a waste of effort and time? Some even say, “We are lack of time for debriefing because of numerous items but limited time. So you’d better come again.” Do these trainers have professional ethnics? That’s why many people see adventure training as a Fun Day.
It is not wrong to rate adventure activity by seeing its success. But over-emphasis on achievement easily provokes utilitarianism. Adventure activities are packaged as commodity goods, commodity A and commodity B. This occurs not only in Hong Kong, but also in the Mainland. Wherever there is profit-making, there is adventure
Advanced Diploma In Adventure-based Leadership
Module1: Theoretical Foundations of Experiential Learning and Adventure-based Education
Individual report on the reviewed literature on use of adventure in self-efficacy and interpersonal skills
Adventure is the integration of experience and concept. Nobody can do for you.
Adventure activity or learning is widely applied among youth growth. (See appendix). Youth who receive adventure activity is fortunate because it is easier to master and apply in our daily life than traditional education.
1. Self-efficacy
Albert Bandura(1977) says the person, behavior and environment are interrelated. Experience can change one’s …show more content…
Chan Yau-wai sees learning as knowledge resulted from experience 4. Traditional American dictionary defines learning as the process through experience. Modern psychologist says learning is a permanent changing process in which experience changes one’s behavior. (Cheung Chun-hing, 2005).
Successful experience causes self-confidence and empowers self-efficacy. Learning is a line, not a point, on the time axis. It comes from experience. Through it, one makes permanent change. No thinking (or reflection), no change. “One step, one experience” is a must in growth. It is experience learning and adventure too. There are many unknown in our daily life for us to explore and experience.
E. Erikson believes each life stage is unique with specific learning need. Though there is learning failure, it is still part of our growth.
People say “one incident, one learning.”
2. Interpersonal …show more content…
This sounds good if they have got well-qualified trainers, as David A. Kolb described. However, the rapid promotion of adventure activity cause over-demand for qualified trainers. This causes adverse effect, like emergence of countless unqualified trainers.
Choy Ping-kong and Ng Hon-ming find some people think they can be capable trainers as long as they have the manual. But how can such Hong Kong fast food culture bring forth the essence of adventure learning? Are those people simple or naïve?
Adventure learning needs time and space. Limited time, countless challenges, great varieties and over-intensive program make participants no reflection! Is this a waste of effort and time? Some even say, “We are lack of time for debriefing because of numerous items but limited time. So you’d better come again.” Do these trainers have professional ethnics? That’s why many people see adventure training as a Fun Day.
It is not wrong to rate adventure activity by seeing its success. But over-emphasis on achievement easily provokes utilitarianism. Adventure activities are packaged as commodity goods, commodity A and commodity B. This occurs not only in Hong Kong, but also in the Mainland. Wherever there is profit-making, there is adventure