Sourcebook of Experiential Education: Key Thinkers and Their Contributions

by SMITH; THOMAS E

• ISBN13: 9780415884426
• ISBN10: 041588442X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-12-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Experiential education is a philosophy and methodology for building knowledge, developing skills, and clarifying values by engaging learners in direct experience and focused reflection. To understand experiential education, what should one be reading? This sourcebook introduces philosophers, educators, and other practitioners whose work is relevant to anyone seeking answers to this question. Following brief snapshots of John Dewey and Kurt Hahn, the book is organized in four sections:Philosophers and Educational TheoristsNature Educators and Outdoor EducatorsPsychologists and SociologistsSchool and Program Founders.Each chapter focuses on an individual whose philosophy and practice exemplify a biographical and historical model for reaching a deeper understanding of experiential education. An appendix includes short biographical sketches of 45 additional people whose contributions to experiential education deserve a closer look.This volume provides a much-needed overview and foundations for the field '” for students in courses addressing experiential education, challenge education, outdoor experiential education, recreation education, and related fields; for learning theorists and curriculum specialists; for experiential educators; and for educational philosophers.

Author Biography

Thomas E. Smith, Founder/Director of the Raccoon Institute and Independent Psychologist/ Wilderness Guide, has taught psychology and education at colleges and universities and is a frequent presenter, consultant, and trainer at regional, national, and international conference workshops on experiential/adventure/challenge/outdoor education. Clifford E. Knapp, professor Emeritus, Northern Illionois University, has taught at all levels of education, elementary through graduate school, and is a frequent presenter at state, national, and international conferences offering workshops in experiential education and place-based education.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Experiential Education and Learning by Experience	p. 1
Philosophers and Educational Theorists	p. 13
Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates: Ancient Greek Perspectives on Experiential Learning	p. 18
Rousseau and Pestalozzi: Emile, Gertrude, and Experiential Education	p. 26
Sir Patrick Geddes: "Vivendo Discimus"- By Living We Learn	p. 32
Alfred North Whitehead: Educational Emergence	p. 41
Martin Buber: Dialogue, Relationship, the Other, and the More-Than-Human World	p. 48
Paulo Freire: Critical Praxis and Experiential Education	p. 56
Maxine Greene: The Power of the Possible	p. 64
Eleanor Duckworth: The Teacher's Teacher	p. 73
Nature Study, Outdoor and Environmental Education	p. 81
Jean Louis Rodolfe Agassiz: Nature and Experiential Education	p. 86
Alexander von Humboldt: Expeditionary Scientist	p. 93
Anna Botsford Comstock: Beyond Science-Learning About Self and Nature Through Field Experience	p. 100
Charles A. Eastman and Luther Standing Bear: Two Early Indian Writers and Educators	p. 108
Aldo Leopold: Teaching in the Spirit of the Land Ethic	p. 117
Lloyd B. Sharp: Trailblazer in Outdoor Education	p. 123
Rachel Carson: Inspiring A Sense of Wonder	p. 131
Sigurd Olson and Paul Shepard: Experiential Education and Ancient Rhythms	p. 138
Psychologists and Sociologists	p. 145
Emile Durkheim: Socialization and Education	p. 150
Lev Vygotsky: Experiential Education- A View from the Future	p. 157
Fritz Perls: Gestalt Therapy and Experiental Education	p. 166
Kurt Lewin: Another Kurt for Experiential Educators to Know	p. 173
Earl C. Kelley: Education for What Is Real	p. 180
Carl Rogers: A Way of Being an Experiential Educator	p. 185
School and Program Founders: Theory to Practice, Practice to Theory	p. 193
Maria Montessori: Founding Mother of Experiential Education?	p. 197
Cecil Reddie: Pioneering Headmaster	p. 208
Fridtjof Nansen: Adventure and Friluftsliv	p. 216
Juliette Gordon Low: Scouting and Experiental Education	p. 224
Paul Petzoldt: Man of the Mountains	p. 231
Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Teacher and Reflective Practitioner	p. 238
Campbell Loughmiller: The Father of Therapeutic Camping	p. 244
Sidney B. Simon: Values Clarification Pioneer	p. 255
Eliot Wigginton: Foxfire- No Inert Ideas Allowed Here	p. 262
Tricia Yu: The Tao of Experience	p. 272
Deserving a Closer Look: Other Thinkers and Suggested Readings	p. 281
Editors' Dialogue	p. 293
Words of Wisdom: Selected Quotations About Experiental Education	p. 302
About the Editors	p. 311
About the Contributing Authors	p. 312
Index	p. 319
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