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• ISBN: 1880785153
• ISBN: 9781880785157
• Physical Description: xii, 107 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
• Publisher: Charleston, W. Va. : ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, ©1996.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-105).

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Educational reform and outdoor education -- -- 2. Planning for outdoor learning -- -- 3. Twelve outdoor adventure themes -- No. 1. Watching and talking to people at the shopping center -- No. 2. Community planning -- No. 3. Local pollution problems -- No. 4. Homesteading the land -- No. 5. Starting a democratic society -- No. 6. Seeing a city block -- No. 7. Fast-food fact finding -- No. 8. Scouting the school grounds -- No. 9. Reading the cemetery story -- No. 10. Down the drain -- No. 11. Nature in the city -- No. 12. Designing and constructing a nature trail -- More organizing problems to investigate -- -- App. A.A brief history of outdoor education and experiential learning -- App. B. Environmental inventories -- App. C. Children's literature springboards to outdoor adventures -- App. D. Selected readings in community adventures and interdisciplinary learning -- App. E. Annotated bibliography of books on student-centered outdoor learning -- App. F. Guidelines for creating student-centered learning communities -- App. G. Organizations and programs -- App. H. Fifteen ways to study a place without a guide.

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