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"Roger Greenaway's substantial website continues to maintain its status as the premier information website for information for both practitioners and researchers in experiential and outdoor education." James Neill, July 2002

THE OUTDOOR TOUR

Find a box like this at the foot
of each tour page:



or tour some 'REVIEWING' pages

SITE SEARCH

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BBC NEWS: Outdoor Education
Schools 'shying away from trips'
Outdoor centres 'a safety net' 		Have you yet seen the outdoor education and outdoor training sections in Roger's Active Learning Bookshop? Index to the 25 Active Learning Categories in Roger's Bookshop

LEARNING THROUGH ADVENTURE

Books by Roger Greenaway and other authors
 Reviewing Adventures: Why and How? published by the National Association for Outdoor Education

More Than Activities a handbook about using adventure (and other activities) in youth social work, and is based on the work of Advice Adventure Consultancy, and published by Save the Children Fund.

Adventure Connexions a handbook of reviewing methods for using outdoors "the guidebook for your other back pocket" to be published by the Association for Outdoor Learning

Playback: A Guide to Reviewing Activities a handbook about reviewing almost any any active experience. Inspired by people and practices at the Brathay Hall Trust, and published by the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

Books by other authors
See the outdoor education and outdoor training sections of Roger's bookshop for reviews of some of the best books in this field. Please make a recommendation if your favourite book is missing!

ADVENTURE LEARNING ARTICLES

Articles by Roger Greenaway and other writers
Articles by other writers

OUTDOOR LEARNING RESEARCH

searchable databases

Here is a sample of entries from the
A-Z of outdoor research on the web

• Outdoor Education Research & Evaluation Center A good place to find other research sites or other researchers or for getting your own work published or archived. Includes 'Research Site of the Month'.

• OutdoorEd.com Research Center over 600 entries in the database. Invites postings of new research. Allows you to advertise for research you would like done.

• Adventure Research Cache Search Website 179 entries in the database (Feb 2002)- adventure recreation/education journal articles.

• Outdoor and Experiential Education Directory A collaborative project of ERIC and AEE a database of websites with about 200 entries (Feb 2002) Search whole database or by one of the 8 categories.

• SearchERIC.org 1600+ entries (Feb 2002) for 'adventure education', 'outdoor education' and 'outdoor leadership'

• For more research links see:
Outdoor Education Research Links A~Z

OUTDOOR TRAINING WORKSHOPS

Trainer-training with Roger Greenaway for people working on youth or adult programmes

Reviewing skills training for working with young people

 • Working with young people in the outdoors (2 day programme - outline and links)

• OA1 REVIEWING OUTDOORS
Focus: maximising opportunities for learning and development while in an outdoor environment.
Specimen programme

• OA2 REVIEWING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Focus: linking review methods to particular outdoor activities and exercises

• OA3 WHY REVIEW ADVENTURES?
Focus: creating commitment to reviewing, and working out a personal rationale for a creative approach to reviewing.

• OA4 EVALUATING ADVENTURE
Focus: developing evaluation tools that will improve the quality and effectiveness of your adventure-based programmes.

• Young People and Outdoor Adventure
indexes the most relevant pages on this site.

Training for trainers working in
Outdoor Management Development

Programmes are open or customised. Most focus on the critical skills of reviewing and transfer - in ways that make the most of the outdoors.

• Reviewing Skills and Tools for Outdoor Trainers (2 days)

• How to Transfer Learning and give your training lasting impact (2 days)

• Harnessing the power of outdoor learning
Focus: facilitation, reviewing, evaluation, transfer and programme design. (5 days)

• Maximising Learning from Outdoor Management Development
Day 1: Reviewing Skills Day 2: Transfer Skills

• Reviewing at the start, middle & end of a course
Focus: extending your toolkit, practising skills
Day 1: accelerate learning, sharpen learning skills
Day 2: impact, depth, usable learning, transfer
Day 3: appraisal, feedback, planning & evaluation

• Using Experiential Learning to Develop Team Skills

For more information see The OMD Links Index or the The Workshops Index or send an e-mail

OUTDOOR LEARNING RESEARCH

by Roger Greenaway
 Powerful Learning Experiences in Management Learning and Development
A study of the experiences of managers attending residential development training courses at the Brathay Hall Trust. 'Development training' is defined as 'a form of experiential learning that is intensified by the use of challenging activities'.

Why Adventure? The Role and Value of Outdoor Adventure in Young People's Personal and Social Development A Review of Research by Jon Barrett and Dr. Roger Greenaway commissioned by the Foundation for Outdoor Adventure.

Development Training Index
References | What is it? | What is experienced?

The Training and Development of Development Trainers a research project by Roger Greenaway for the Manpower Services Commission and the Brathay Hall Trust.

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Is Google the best resource site for outdoor educators and trainers?
    Google (outdoor) Scholar
    Google Scholar is a great resource for finding academic articles and books. I recommend choosing 'Advanced Scholar Search' (and 'Advanced Search Tips') to make your search as specific as you can. For example, choosing the final option (Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities) saves you from getting lots of irrelevant results. Depending on your enquiry, you may also want to select 'Environmental Sciences' or 'Business'.
Better than Google for 'outdoor' searches?
These advanced search engines have some very useful additional features such as grouping of results in categories or the listing of expert sites:
Teoma, Wisenut.

These advanced metasearch engines are amongst the best:
ixquick, vivisimo, queryserver and Turbo10
For the very latest reviews of search engines see SearchEngineWatch.com

If you can recommend any specialist search engines, specialist directories or outdoor portal sites, please write to roger@reviewing.co.uk

Outdoor Discussion Lists

 Find people who share your interests in any of these fields:
outdoor recreation, outdoor education, outdoor development, outdoor training,
adventure therapy, adventure teambuilding, ropes courses or wilderness challenge.

View this growing list of outdoor discussion lists
with up to date instructions on how to search list archives, join each list, and how to leave (gracefully).

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