Intentionally designed thinking and experience spaces: What we learned at summer camp

Students’ Views about Enriched Summer Camp for High School Students

“…This result was also yielded by previous studies, which also underlines that activities like summer camp has an encouraging effect on awareness (Allen et al 2011;Bhattacharyya, Mead, & Nathaniel 2011;Dahl et al 2013;Marulcu et al 2014;Lakin 2006;Dillon et al 2006). Gaedicke et al (2016) organized a summer camp for increasing student interest towards construction management and its subcomponents of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.…”

“…It can be claimed that helping students discover their own interests and take related courses can ease their orientation to that field. In the literature, it was found in different studies that smart and professors have a big influence on students (Fields 2009;Tekbiyik et al 2013;Dahl et al 2013;Sozer 2013). In fact, having student-centered beliefs and being constructivist in teaching reflect upon positively in-class practical orientations (Soysal& Radmard, 2017).…”

“…Summer camps are made in different forms with different aims and contents for example, for those having medical problems (Westervelt, Johnson & Murril 1998) for those having low academic performance and wishing to learn a foreign language (Dahl., Hofstad & Salomon 2013) for different groups with the aim of discovering and improving skills (Das 1994;Jeffrey et al 2003;Bhattacharyya 2011;Allen et al 2011), for specific groups (Hırca 2013;Shabi & Ansari 2001) and disciplines (Richards, 2011). Summer camps serving for different aims are made in general for science and environmental awareness or for raising individual awareness of high school students and career orientation (Tekbiyik, Seyihoglu, Vekli & Konur 2013;Marulcu, Saylan & Guven 2014;Konur, Seyihoglu, Sezen & Tekbiyik 2011;Celik 2012;Foster & Shiel-Rolle 2011;Knox, Moynihan & Markowitz 2003;Es 2016;Smith, Steel & Gidlow 2010;Fields 2009;Shacter & Jo 2005;Doerschuk, Liu & Mann, 2007).…”

Shaping space and practice to support autonomy: lessons from natural settings in Scotland

“…Nedovic and Morrissey (2013) have explored such an environment in an action research project, focusing on changes in an outdoor space and their effect on children's responses to those changes. Other studies have focused on intentionally shaping outdoor LE in the context of field trips (Tal 2001;Zaragoza and Fraser 2017) as well as other outdoor spaces (Dahl et al 2013;Peacock and Pratt 2011). On the other hand, there have been LE studies of various psychosocial measures that relate to both wellbeing and motivation (Salmi and Thuneberg 2018) and that have combined psychosocial outcomes with physical contextual factors (Liu et al 2012).…”