Outdoor Education Final

Front 1

What does Priest describe as the two primary branches of outdoor education?

Back 1

Adventure and Environmental Education

Front 2

According to your text, interpersonal growth is …

Back 2

An increase in self awareness and insight

Front 3

______ is the transference of natural or cultural history, obtained from technical researchers such as ecological scientists or historians, through an educational presentation to the general public.

Back 3

Interpretation

Front 4

The AEE defines _____ as “a philosophy and methodology in which educators purposely engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills, and clarify values.”

Back 4

Experiential education

Front 5

Informal education is entirely determined and controlled by ______

Back 5

The student

Front 6

In 1968, Donaldson and Donaldson wrote, “Outdoor education is education

Back 6

In, about, and for the outdoors.”

Front 7

In the outdoor profession, _____ are a commonly recognized level of the practice and skill is necessary for the outdoor professionals teaching a given topic or activity.

Back 7

Industry standards

Front 8

_____ is the process before, during, and after a program that strives to reduce the likelihood of accidents and health related incidents

Back 8

Risk management

Front 9

According to Dewey, the central theme of ____ is building on students’ prior knowledge and experience to help them with new learning.

Back 9

Constructivism

Front 10

A _____ is an explanation of a pattern of behavior that is consistent and reliable, or mostly predicable in that it will result from deliberate effort

Back 10

Theory

Front 11

Which of the following is NOT one of Kolb’s stages of experiential learning?

Back 11

Memorization

Front 12

Survival, physical skills acquisition, relationships with the land and its inhabitants, and metaphysical are all stages to what?

Back 12

Environmental literacy

Front 13

What is the name that Csikszentmihalyi gives to the sense of oneness achieved when a person’s skills, knowledge, and experience are integrated with the place they are in?

Back 13

Flow

Front 14

The observation that people are good at different things led psychologist Howard Gardner to develop what theory about the ways that people perceive and understand the world?

Back 14

Theory of multiple intelligences

Front 15

The two basic learning styles that seem to be the predominant types encountered in OE are:

Back 15

Kinesthetic and cognitive

Front 16

Sigurd Olson said that as modern pressures such as technological advances increase, we become further removed from the earth. This increase our basic human needs for what?

Back 16

Risk, adventure, and self sufficiency

Front 17

The mission of ____ is “to promote the professionalism of outdoor leadership and to thereby improve the safety of outdoor trips and to enhance the conservation of the wild outdoors. ____ promotes professionalism through the following strategies: certification, accreditation, affiliation, membership, program consulting, research and development and the fostering of collaboration and partnerships with like minded institutions and organizations.”

Back 17

WEA

Front 18

4 developmental stages of Environmental Learning

Back 18

Survival, skill acquisition, relationships with nature, metaphysical

Front 19

List Maslow’s hierarchy of needs from lowest to highest

Back 19

Physiological, safety, belonging, esteem, self actualization

Front 20

All of the following are principles or characteristics for teaching ____ skills: timely and relevant, multisensory teaching techniques, build on their experience, repetition and practice, give appropriate level of responsibility and offer feedback, sequencing and progression, demonstrate perfection.

Back 20

Physical

Front 21

Moving from simplistic and relatively low risk tasks to more complex and risky activities is properly using a ______ ______.

Back 21

Teaching progression

Front 22

Define cognitive teaching methods and give 2 examples.

Back 22

Involves building knowledge about a topic regardless of whether the method is focused on knowledge, physical or emotional. Lecture, inquiry, videography, service learning, written materials, peer teaching

Front 23

Simulation can be effective in training outdoor teachers and leaders on what 3 levels?

Back 23

Individual, programmatic, pedagogic

Front 24

What are affective teaching methods? 2 examples

Back 24

Learning through appeal to emotion. Ex- story telling, theatrics