| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 326 pages) |
| Contents |
Experiential education and learning by experience / Thomas E. Smith [and others] -- Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates: ancient Greek perspectives on experiential learning / Paul Stonehouse, Pete Allison & David Carr -- Rousseau and Pestalozzi: Emile, Gertrude, and experiential education / Thomas E. Smith -- Patrick Geddes: "vivendo discimus?": by living we learn / Peter Higgins & Robbie Nicol -- Alfred North Whitehead: educational emergence / Jasper S. Hunt -- Martin Buber: dialogue, relationship, the other, and the more-than-human world / Sean Blenkinsop -- Paulo Freire: critical praxis and experiential education / Mary Breunig -- Maxine Greene: the power of the possible / Laurie S. Frank -- Eleanor Duckworth: the teacher's teacher / Andrew Bobilya & Brad Daniel -- Louis Agassiz: nature and experiential education / Clifford E. Knapp -- Alexander von Humboldt: experiential expeditionary scientist / Brad Daniel -- Anna Botsford Comstock: beyond science?: learning about self and nature through field experience / Janice L. Woodhouse & Christopher D. Wells -- Charles Eastman and Luther Standing Bear: two early indian writers / Clifford E. Knapp -- Aldo Leopold: teaching in the spirit of the land ethic / Steven Simpson -- Lloyd B. Sharp: trailblazer in outdoor education / Julie Carlson -- Rachel Carson: inspiring a sense of wonder / Karen Warren & Lorene Wapotich -- Sigurd Olson and Paul Shephard: experiential education and ancient rhythms / Bob Henderson -- Emile Durkheim: socialization and education / Thomas E. Smith -- Lev Vygotsky: experiential education?: a view from the future / Jayson Seaman & Mathew Gingo -- Fritz Perls: gestalt therapy and experiential education / Thomas Lindblade -- Kurt Lewin: another Kurt for experiential educators to know / Thomas E. Smith & Chris Leeming -- Earl Kelley: education for what is real / Edward O. Raiola -- Carl Rogers: a way of being an experiential educator / Thomas E. Smith -- Maria Montessori: founding mother of experiential education? / Michael J. Swiderski -- Cecil Reddie: pioneering headmaster / Robbie Nicol & Peter Higgins -- Fridtjof Nansen: adventure and friluftsliv / Gunnar Repp -- Juliette Gordon Low: scouting and experiential education / Thomas E. Smith -- Paul Petzoldt: man of the mountains / Tim O'Connell -- Silvia Ashton-Warner: teacher and reflective practitioner / Maureen Zarrella -- Campbell Loughmiller: the father of therapeutic camping / James Doncaster -- Sidney B. Simon: values clarification pioneer / Clifford E. Knapp -- Eliot Wigginton: foxfire: no inert ideas allowed here / Cynthia McDermott & Hilton Smith -- Tricia yu: the tao of experience / Gloree Rohnke |
| Summary |
This sourcebook book provides a much-needed overview and foundations for the field of experiential education, through portraits of philosophers, educators, and other practitioners whose work is relevant to understanding its philosophy and methodology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Experiential learning.
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Educators -- Biography
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EDUCATION -- Experimental Methods.
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Educators
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Experiential learning
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Erziehungsphilosophie
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Thomas E.
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Knapp, Clifford E.
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| ISBN |
9780203838983 |
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020383898X |
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