Margaret Robertson & Ruth Lawrence 
Experiencing the Outdoors 
Enhancing Strategies for Wellbeing

The space is outdoors. The experience is personal and the journey can be solitary or take place in groups. Informal or formal the places visited are sites of learning. Locked in memory our experiences in the outdoors are a constant source of wonderment and food to replenish our sense of wellbeing. Our experiences in the outdoors can endure in the abstract as ideas for developing a sense of a well lived life. They can also draw us back to places and reenergise the body. Physical and emotional wellbeing collides in the unexpected events that flourish in the outdoors. Our readiness for enjoyment and personal development are subjective states which this book challenges. Traversing the landscape of the outdoors the collection of chapters contained range from the theoretical to the practical including strategies for teaching and learning that are transdisciplinary. With ideas for practitioners as well as thoughtful reading for readers of diverse ages and interests this book includes contributions from Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Canada.

Tabla de materias

Foreword; Preface; An Early Morning Walk: In Search of ‘the Outdoors’; Walking the Ground: (Re)storying Footprints; A Canadian Wilderness Expedition from a Danish Perspective: Cultural Analysis and Reflections; Pipe Dreams: A Tale of Two Cities; Ko Ahau Te Awa Ko Te Awa Ko Ahau: I Am the River, and the River Is Me; Embodiment, Nature and Wellbeing: More Than the Senses?; Re-imagining the Outdoor Experience: A Philosophical View; Ecouraging Paddling Participation through Canoe Trail Development in the Barmah Millewa Floodplain Forest, Australia; Adventure in Leisure: An Exploration of Indoor and Outdoor Climbing Communities; Paying Attention to Perceptual Experience within Nature; The Spaces of Outdoor Learning: An Actor-network Exploration; Environmental and Outdoor Learning in Hong Kong: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives; Affordances of an Ocean Walk; Best Practice in Outdoor Environmental Education Fieldwork: Pedagogies to Improve Student Learning; Safety Ltd. Inc.: Accident Theory and the Institutionalisation of Outdoor Education; Local Environmental Knowledge of School Students; Vocational Training and Higher Education: Using Outdoor Education as a Lens; Realising Sustainability Leadership: Role of Green Non-Government Organisations in Outdoor Environmental Education in Hong Kong; Rewording the World: Narrative and Nature after Poststructuralism; The Outdoors as a Fluid Concept; Author Biographies; Index.