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Exploring Approaches To Equity In Environmental Education Access For Teens, Norah Cook
Exploring Approaches To Equity In Environmental Education Access For Teens, Norah Cook
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False Idyll, J.B. Mackinnon
False Idyll, J.B. Mackinnon
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
A provocative essay awaits those who peruse prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon's article, False Idyll. MacKinnon posits that many of us romanticize nature as a sacred place ( one of succor and comfort) overlooking that most places visited have been tamed by humans. The absence of real wildness (predators that can kill us) creates an "imaginary connection with nature" instead of a tangible one. We settle for occasional visits to such sanctuaries and "see little purpose in returning to a deeper and more risky engagement:' Thus "seeing only nurture in nature" reinforces the concept that we are apart and above it.
Tracing Connections Between The Development Of Wilderness And Outdoor Education In The U.S., Jeff Rose And Dan Dustin
Tracing Connections Between The Development Of Wilderness And Outdoor Education In The U.S., Jeff Rose And Dan Dustin
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
After a brief background on the purpose and formulation of both wilderness and the Wilderness Act of 1964 changing cultural, physical, and recreational demand; on wilderness lands are projected into the forthcoming decades. As the Wilderness Act passes its 50th anniversary, we place particular value on the ways in which wilderness, as both a place and a concept, support and enable many of the same values that are found in outdoor education. Tracing the history of wilderness aligns with many of the same histories of outdoor education, and we speculate that the future trajectories of these two institutions will likely …
Spirit, Breath, And Air, Chloe Crawford
Spirit, Breath, And Air, Chloe Crawford
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Early settler views toward wilderness differed from Natives encountered in the New World. While Native Americans advocated balance and respect for their wilderness surroundings, European immigrants felt fear and repulsion toward it. However, their views on wilderness changed so much by the late 1800s that sanitariums were built in remote climates promoting outdoor air as a cure for the treatment of respiratory diseases. Just as the concept of wilderness emerged in opposition to civilization, fresh or pure air cannot be defined or appreciated until pollution takes hold. The success of climatic cures for respiratory disorders was pushed aside as western …
Review Of One Man's Wilderness, Charles Yaple
Review Of One Man's Wilderness, Charles Yaple
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Sam Keith's account (One Man's Wilderness) is the story of Richard Proenneke's stay in the Alaskan wilderness during the late 1960s. Like John Rowland's (Cache Lake Country) it too earned a National Book Award in 1999. Also like Rowland's, Proenneke had dreamed since boyhood of living in the wilderness. Proenneke's time to do so came in 1968 when he hired a bush pilot to fly him into the Twin Lakes area near Port Alsworth, Alaska. There he built a small log cabin and established a homestead that would host him for 16 months and periodically over …
From The Editor, Charles Yaple
From The Editor, Charles Yaple
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
"In wildness lies the preservation of the world" - profound words of environmentalist and author Henry David Thoreau spoken more than 150 years ago. Concerned about more than biophysical health, Thoreau argued that civilizations breakdown when humans forget their origins and source of spiritual, mental and physical sustenance. He believed wild places were a source of inspiration containing the "raw material of life" that instilled a sense of wonder, spiritual truths and the basis of sound intellect for those frequenting such haunts. Considering Thoreau's wisdom and present concerns about such things as "nature deficit disorder," this issue of Taproot explores …
Biblical Wilderness Theology, Gregory E. Hitzhusen
Biblical Wilderness Theology, Gregory E. Hitzhusen
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Several years ago I participated in Yitziah, a 21-day Jewish Outdoor Environmental Leadership Training backpacking course in western North Carolina. AB the lone Christian participant in this thoroughly Jewish program, I was curious to witness how wilderness experiences could be connected with Jewish religious practice, in hopes that I could make the translation into my own faith tradition. The course was held during the time of Shavuot, when Jews celebrate the constitutive occasion of receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai. Our group was to follow in the footsteps of Judaism's forebears, whose religious and spiritual identity was born out of …
A Proposed Model For Enhanced Spiritual Connectedness, Dottie Shuman
A Proposed Model For Enhanced Spiritual Connectedness, Dottie Shuman
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
As I read through the literature on spirituality in wilderness and reflected on my own experiences, two conclusions emerged worth sharing in this paper. 1) While in the wilderness, people describe a sense of something greater than themselves and 2) people emerge from the wilderness as changed people, sometimes intentionally going to the wilderness to be changed. These two ideas might cause those of us who are training outdoor leaders to pause for a moment. If people are changing as a result of their time in wilderness, how can leaders strengthen that impact? In addition, Louv (2006), at the first …
From The Guest Editor, Lynn Anderson
From The Guest Editor, Lynn Anderson
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
The Coalition for Education in the Outdoors exists to support the broad purpose of education in, for, and about the outdoors for ALL people. This special issue of Taproot, "Accessible Outdoors," looks closely at the regulations, current issues, and best practices in ensuring that all people have the opportunity to play and learn in the out of doors. Research has consistently shown that people with disabilities want the same experiences in the outdoors that all people want, from a pristine wilderness experience to a day in the park to a guided nature walk at the local nature center. Today, we …
Accessible Adventure: Leadership Techniques That Facilitate Full Participation By All, Greg Lais
Accessible Adventure: Leadership Techniques That Facilitate Full Participation By All, Greg Lais
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Although it is by no means exhaustive, this article provides a framework for outdoor adventure program staff in developing and using certain techniques toward the goal of integrating people with widely varying physical, cognitive, and emotional needs in outdoor adventures, while protecting and preserving the wilderness environment. Most of the content is based upon the experiences and methods employed by Wilderness Inquiry, which have also been documented in the book, "Integrated Outdoor Education and Adventure Programs" (Schleien, McAvoy, Lais, & Rynders, 1993).
From Romanticism To Deep Ecology: The Continuing Evolution In American Environmental Thought, David Ackerson
From Romanticism To Deep Ecology: The Continuing Evolution In American Environmental Thought, David Ackerson
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Nash argues that compared to the millennia of anti-wilderness sentiment. the pace of intellectual change in the previous two centuries is so rapid that it must be considered revolutionary (1982 P. XI). Viewed in the context of human hi story and human attitudes, this is true. However, the actual development of a pro-wilderness viewpoint in America has followed an evolutionary course from the Romantic Movement through Emerson, Thoreau, Muir, and Leopold. The latest, logical manifestation of this evolutionary progress is the philosophy known as deep ecology.
Review, Charles Yaple
Review, Charles Yaple
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Like Paul Rezendes' The Wild Within: Adventures in Nature and Animal Teachings (see Taproot, summer 1999), Dan Dustin has penned a collection of essays about adventure-based outdoor recreation experiences set mostly in the context of mountains, forests, and deserts. Both authors share how nature has served to expand their awareness and understanding of life and stress the value of frequent self-reflection. Unlike Rezendes, Dustin also includes six essays suggesting that what makes life interesting "flows out of everyday pastimes" such as visiting with friends, playing games, listening to music, and enjoying good food.
How Nature Shapes Childhood, Will Nixon
How Nature Shapes Childhood, Will Nixon
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
Pyle 's intuitions have been borne out by psychological study. In Place Attachment, a collection of academic essays, Kentucky State University professor of psychology Louise Chawla writes that formal studies of environmental activists have found that "most respondents attributed their commitment to a combination of two sources: many hours spent outdoors in a keenly remembered wild or semi-wild place in childhood or adolescence, and an adult who taught respect for nature." In public interviews, environmental leaders may ascribe their motivations to such weighty matters as saving the planet for future generations, but at bottom they may owe their drive to …