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Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Abstract

After reading Charles Yaple's article, ''Envisioning Environmental and Outdoor Education" in the May, 1997 issue of Taproot , I decided to offer my definitions and diagrammatic concept model in order to continue the "conversation:

Outdoor education is a set of planned and unplanned experiences related to the formal school or college curriculum which take place outsi4e the school building. The selection of these experiences is based on the educational objectives judged • to be best met through unmediated (direct and in context) interaction with local community and surrounding 6 Taproot Summer 1998 areas. The study topics include a variety of interdisciplinary content appropriate to the particular academic and developmental level of the student. The instructional methods primarily incorporate experience- based and inquiry techniques, collaborative learning groups, and Socratic questioning.

Environmental education is a set of planned and unplanned experiences related to the formal school or college curriculum which take place inside and outside the school building. The selection of these experiences is based on the most appropriate way to study a specific environmental issue and/or problem, either local or global in nature. The instructional methods include action-oriented experiences and problem- solving techniques, collaborative learning, Socratic questioning as well as more traditional ways of transmitting knowledge such as lecture, video and audio tapes, CD-ROM, and other instructional media.

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