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Spotlight, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Contains articles highlighting current issues in the field. In this issue: Outward Bound Expeditionary Learning and National Institute for the Environment.

Conference Calendar, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section provides a list of conferences in the field of outdoor education includingthe American Camping Association (ACA) and the Wilderness Education Association (WEA).

Spotlight, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Contains articles highlighting current issues in the field. In this issue: resources from ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools (ERIC/CRESS), and efforts in Illinois to strengthen environmental education, among others.

Professional Development, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section included numerous opportunities for professional development related to outdoor education and environmental or conservation education. Some of the opportunities included: requests for essays on the topic of women and the outdoors for a future issue of Taproot and the Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement (EASI) Leadership conference.

Conference Calendar, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section provides a list of conferences in the field of outdoor education including one from American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance scheduled in early 1996.

Outdoor Education Builds Citizenship, Susie Criswell

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Outdoor education can take place in a city park, in a vacant lot, or at a residential camp. It connects an individual with a place he or she can call home. Once someone bonds with a place, the individual tends to want to remain there and improve it. Outdoor education can work as a motivator to bring people closer to their true potential as active citizens

Outdoor Ethics Education, Bruce E. Matthews

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

The assumption is those outdoor users educated about appropriate behaviors, who include the natural world in their value systems, will act in a more ethical manner by exhibiting more positive outdoor behaviors. But does outdoor ethics education really work? What does the research say?

Reviews, Susie Criswell, Curt Schatz

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section reviewed several books:

• Journey to the Heart of Nature by Joseph Cornell
• Campsite to Kitchen: Tastes and Traditions From America's Great Outdoors by The Outdoor Writers Association of America
• Backwoods Ethics: Environmental Issues for Hikers and Campers {2nd Ed) by Laura and Guy Waterman

Executive Director's Message And Table Of Contents, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

The Coalition for Education in the Outdoors is a non-profit network of outdoor and environmental education centers, nature centers, conservation and recreation organizations, outdoor education and experiential education associations, institutions of higher learning, public and private schools, fish and wildlife agencies, and businesses that share a mission the support and furtherance of outdoor education and its goals.

Resources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section contains a listing of teaching resources of all types for those who work in outdoor education field at time of publication. Some items highlighted include: Adopt-an-Animal programs, environmental education curricula available for review.

News Briefs, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

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Employment Sources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section lists employment sources (such as Women in Natural Resources (University of Idaho) and Wilderness Job Referral Services (Colorado State University).

Thoreau's Legacy, Charles Yaple

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Thoreau believed that human well-being on the personal and cultural level would prosper if individuals planted one foot in natural surroundings and the other in civilization. He saw wildness "as the source of vigor, inspiration, and strength," and "to the extent a culture, or an individual, lost contact with wildness it became weak and dull" (Nash, 1967, p. 88). He cited the breakdown of civilizations (the Roman Empire) as historical evidence of what could happen when humans forgot their origins and source of spiritual, mental, and physical sustenance. What might outdoor educators learn from Thoreau that can help them deal …

Affiliate News, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Affiliate News and CEO Update: Contains updates from the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors as well as news about related organizations across the country. This issue included news from New York State Outdoor Education Association (NYSOEA), Center for Environmental Education and others.

The Scripture Of Maps, The Names Of Trees, Stephen Trimble

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

The first six years of life work their subtle power on us throughout our lives. We remember few specifics. But our bedrock emotional security - our trust- comes from this time. We spend our first years striving to develop what psychologists call "a sense of competence." This drive for mastery- of grasping, crawling, walking, talking, and play-leads to astonishingly rapid and broad learning.

Recent research has surprised us with how emphatically our behavior and personalities are hard-wired by genetics. We start with our general emotional outlook on the world fixed by the magical code of our genes. The bent of …

Moral Education And Outdoor Education - An Interview With Tom Lickona, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Character development and moral education have always been integral parts of outdoor education. Currently, there's been a resurgence of interest in teaching children ethical values that build good character. Taproot Associate Editor Carol Skawinski interviewed one of the leading proponents of character education in the world: Dr. Thomas Lickona, Director of the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility), at the State University of New York, Cortland. Dr. Lickona is the author of Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility and Raising Good Children. He discusses the urgent need for character education and …

Executive Director's Message, Charles Yaple

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

The Coalition for Education in the Outdoors is a non-profit network of outdoor and environmental education centers, nature centers, conservation and recreation organizations, outdoor education and experiential education associations, institutions of higher learning, public and private schools, fish and wildlife agencies, and businesses that share a mission the support and furtherance of outdoor education and its goals.

Outdoor Attractions, Michael Cohen

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Teachers and students observe that getting in tune with nature by safely enjoying its attractions has a positive effect up on the way we feel and act.

Resources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section contains a listing of teaching resources of all types for those who work in outdoor education field at time of publication. Some items highlighted include the book Minimum Impact Camping by Curt Schatz and Dan Seemon, and The National Directory of Environmental Monitoring Programs (4th edition).

Spotlight, William Stoehr

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Contains articles highlighting current issues in the field. In this issue: The American Discovery Trail by William L. Stoehr, Colorado ADT Coordinator.

Professional Development, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section included numerous opportunities for professional development related to outdoor education and environmental or conservation education. Some of the items listed are a Call for Abstracts for Outdoor Education Research Symposium and the Outdoor Writers Association of America's planned 1995 conference.

Affiliate News & Ceo Update, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Contains updates from the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors as well as news about related organizations across the country. This issue includes news from new affiliate Tug Hill Tomorrow, Inc., Pocono Environmental Education Center and others.

News Briefs, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section contains multiple brief news items related to conservation, environment or outdoor education.

Conference Calendar, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section provides a list of conferences in the field of outdoor education as well as a highlighted local conference from the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors Third Biennial Research Symposium being held at Bradford Woods (1996).

Book Reviews, Curt Schatz, Carol Skawinski

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section reviewed two books:

• My Double Life - Memoirs of a Naturalist by Frances Hamerstrom
• Eco-Sanity: A common sense guide to environmentalism by Joseph L. Bast, Peter J. Hill and Richard C. Rue

Employment Sources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section lists employment sources such as Women in Natural Resources (University of Idaho) and Wilderness Job Referral Services (Colorado State University).

Table Of Contents & Executive Director's Message, Charles Yaple

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

The Coalition for Education in the Outdoors is a non-profit network of outdoor and environmental education centers, nature centers, conservation and recreation organizations, outdoor education and experiential education associations, institutions of higher learning, public and private schools, fish and wildlife agencies, and businesses that share a mission the support and furtherance of outdoor education and its goals.

Affiliate News & Ceo Update, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Contains updates from the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors as well as news about related organizations across the country. This issue includeds new from New York State Outdoor Education Association (NYSOEA), National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and McKeever Environmental Learning Center and others.

Spotlight, Glen Ruh, Conservation Career Development Program

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Contains articles highlighting current issues in the field. In this issue: Hunter Behavior Improves by Glen Ruh and Creating Diversity in the Conservation Field by the Conservation Career Development Program

Professional Development, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section included numerous opportunities for professional development related to outdoor education and environmental or conservation education. Some of the conferences included The Wild Turkey Federation and The Second Annual Eastern Conference for Outdoor Leaders and Instructors.