Outdoor adventure instructors’ perceptions of nature and their work: a phenomenological study

Huynh, Tuyen; Torquati, Julia C.

doi:10.1080/14729679.2018.1531041

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“…Phenomenology helps researchers to understand the lived experience(s) of phenomenon among several individuals (Creswell, 2013). Recent phenomenological inquiries in experiential education research include the job-related experiences of outdoor leaders (Field et al, 2016) and instructor subjective experiences of the natural world (Huynh & Torquati, 2019). However, there is limited phenomenological examination that takes into the lived experiences of the multiple parties involved in OOPs: the participants, trip leaders, mentors, and program administrators.…”

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Smartphone Impacts on Outdoor Orientation Trip Goal Attainment

Edwards

Zajchowski

Hill

2020

Journal of Experiential Education

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Background: Smartphones provide limitless opportunity for communication and access to the world through social media, texting, and numerous applications. As their popularity continues to grow among college students, it is important to understand the various advantages and disadvantages of their use on and off campus. Purpose: We explored the effect of smartphones on goal and objective attainment in the outdoor orientation program (OOP) at Old Dominion University. Methodology/Approach: Using post-experience focus groups, student participants and leaders, faculty and staff mentors, and program administrators were asked their perceptions of the impacts of smartphones on outdoor orientation. Findings/Conclusions: Analyses revealed that smartphones can be both a tool to help accomplish goals (i.e., develop connections) and a distraction to inhibit them. In addition, students shared feelings of security related to having smartphones with them at all times. Implications: These findings inform future research and policies focused on the role of smartphones in collegiate outdoor orientation programming, as well as provide implications for healthy smartphone habits in higher education.

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Smartphone Impacts on Outdoor Orientation Trip Goal Attainment

Edwards

Zajchowski

Hill

2020

Journal of Experiential Education

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“…James and Williams (2017) emphasized that outdoor education is a prerequisite for learning rather than putting a test centered education into the centre. In addition, Churchill, Kennedy, Flint, and Cotton (2010) and Huynh and Torquati (2019) underscored that the educational practices of outdoor education provide a better understanding of the subject matter. However, it can be underlined that the level of remembering of knowledge is poor in the findings of this very study.…”

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“…Besides, it has been shown in the literature to be a facilitating learning style with outdoor training. Moreover, Huynh and Torquati (2019) discovered another aspect of outdoor training in their study: participants identified the health benefits of exposure to nature and found that they enjoyed mediating their relationships with nature through their work. They also found that outdoor education plays a very important role as a channel to facilitate others' relationship with nature also fostering any associated physical and mental health benefits.…”

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Analysis of the influence of outdoor education activities on seventh grade students

Taş¹,

Gülen²

2019

PER

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It is thought that the results of teaching some of the subjects in science through outdoor education will be more positive. The purpose of this study is to find out the effects of activities done through outdoor education on students' academic achievement, students' thoughts about the activities and the permanence of information. Mixed research design was used in the study. Academic achievement test was prepared to collect quantitative data while a test consisting of open-ended questions in fully structured interview form was prepared for qualitative data. For the analysis of quantitative data, statistical analysis techniques such as average, frequency, percentage, standard deviation and Wilcoxon signed ranks test were used with the help of SPSS program. In qualitative analysis, the data were coded, common themes were formed with their categories and content analysis method was used. According to the results, it was found that outdoor activities increased students' achievement and did not have a significant relationship with students' recalling information. The results of the qualitative analysis showed that the students liked these activities and the activities were effective in understanding the subject and learning the concepts. In addition, it was found that the activities influenced the friendship between students positively. It was suggested for outdoor activities to be used in science teaching.

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“…Connectedness to nature has multiple benefits to humans and the environment. Some of the benefits to humans include happiness (Capaldi et al, 2014), mindfulness (Huynh and Torquati, 2019), positive moods (Mayer et al, 2009), emotional and psychological well-being (Huynh and Torquati, 2019;Nisbet et al, 2011;Windhorst and Williams, 2015), better health (Frumkin, 2001;Kaplan, 2001), etc. Individuals having a strong connectedness to nature exhibit various environment friendly behaviours, like saving electricity, engagement with nature, etc.…”

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Connectedness to Nature and Environmental Concern as Antecedents of Commitment to Environmental Sustainability

Sulphey

Faisal

2021

IJEEP

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Environmental issues are challenging human existence on earth. There is growing consensus that individuals need to change their behaviour and consumption patterns to create a sustainable society. Despite the indispensability of building a sustainable society in Saudi Arabia, only limited empirical examinations have been attempted about the awareness, attitudes and the role of individual attitude towards environment and sustainability. Attempting to fill this gap in literature, the study examined the relationship of Connectedness to nature and Environmental concern with Environmental sustainability. The data collected from 261 respondents was analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. The results showed that Connectedness to nature and Environmental concern were antecedents of Commitment to environmental sustainability. Demographics did not have any effect on the variables studied. It is expected that the understanding about the various factors related to pro-environmental behaviour would facilitate designing of appropriate agendas and programs for effective dissemination of information about environment issues.

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Outdoor adventure instructors’ perceptions of nature and their work: a phenomenological study

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Smartphone Impacts on Outdoor Orientation Trip Goal Attainment

Smartphone Impacts on Outdoor Orientation Trip Goal Attainment

Analysis of the influence of outdoor education activities on seventh grade students

Connectedness to Nature and Environmental Concern as Antecedents of Commitment to Environmental Sustainability

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