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Outdoor experiential education has often been critiqued for its White, male, middle/upper-class, able-bodied history, thereby causing professionals and programs to consider issues of social justice. This state of knowledge paper will review the literature on social and environmental justice, identify gaps in current social justice literature and practice, and offer recommendations for creating a new history.

Ecological feminism is a feminism which attempts to unite the demands of the women's movement with those of the ecological movement. Ecofeminists often appeal to “ecology” in support of their claims, particularly claims about the importance of feminism to environmentalism. What is missing from the literature is any sustained attempt to show respects in which ecological feminism and the science of ecology are engaged in complementary, mutually supportive projects. In this paper we attempt to do that by showing ten important similarities which establish the need for and benefits of on‐going dialogue between ecofeminists and ecosystem ecologists.

This article calls for attention to social justice issues in the education and training of future outdoor leaders. A look at the literature on race, gender, and class sensitive outdoor leadership and a critique of traditional avenues of outdoor leader preparation is offered. Recommendations for training race, gender, and class sensitive outdoor leaders are given.

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