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Investigating The Long-Term Impact Of Adventure Education: A Retrospective Study Of Outward Bound Singapore's Classic 21-Day Challenge Course, Michael Gassner, Abdul Kahlid, Keith Russell
Investigating The Long-Term Impact Of Adventure Education: A Retrospective Study Of Outward Bound Singapore's Classic 21-Day Challenge Course, Michael Gassner, Abdul Kahlid, Keith Russell
Research in Outdoor Education
This study was conducted to further our understanding of the impact an outdoor adventure education experience has on participants' personal and professional life. Outdoor adventure education follows an experiential philosophy of learning and takes place primarily through sensory involvement with the natural world (Priest and Gass, 1997). Ewert and McAvoy (2000) have mentioned that the transfer of benefits of adventure programs and their components to work and everyday life have often been neglected in research.
An Employee Perspective Of Service In An Outdoor Education Organization: A Means-End Study, Marni Goldenberg, Dan Pronsolino, David B. Klenosky
An Employee Perspective Of Service In An Outdoor Education Organization: A Means-End Study, Marni Goldenberg, Dan Pronsolino, David B. Klenosky
Research in Outdoor Education
This research examined staff perceptions of the outcomes and values of service in an outdoor education organization through an approach known as means-end analysis. Means-end analysis provides a framework to identify and explore the interrelationships among the important attributes, consequences (i.e., benefits and outcomes), and values of a product or service (Gutman, 1982; Klenosky, Gengler, & Mulvey, 1993). Typically, the means-end approach bas focused on decision-making behavior of consumers. More recent applications have used the approach to understand the outcomes associated with ropes course programming (Goldenberg, Klenosky, O'Leary, & Templin, 2000) and the components of an Outward Bound experience (Goldenberg, …