Advanced Topics in Outdoor Education (BSE537)

BSE537 Advanced Topics in Outdoor Education brings together principal ideas and leading-edge developments in the field of outdoor research. A wide range of topics including age, gender, equality, among others, as they relate to participation in outdoor activities will be gleaned. Up-to-date research will be presented during the seminars and students will engage in meaningful, in-depth class discussion. At the end of the course, students will develop an understanding of the socio-cultural and socio-environmental phenomena in the outdoor education landscape.

• Health and Wellbeing Benefits of Activities in the Outdoors
• Adventure Therapy: Developing Therapeutics Outdoor Practice
• Cultural Interpretation of Outdoor education
• Disability, Equality and Inclusion in the Outdoor Learning
• Age and Gender in Outdoor Education
• Adventure Tourism and Ecotourism

• Evaluate the efficacy of outdoor education and adventure programmes in the promotion of health and wellbeing for the general population.
• Appraise the transfer of participant’s learning during adventure programme into functional therapeutic changes in life.
• Develop an understanding of how cultural perspective and norm may influence ideological objectives of outdoor education.
• Justify inclusive outdoor education in the light of risks, injuries and fatalities.
• Critique research literature on the effect of gender on people’s outdoor education experiences.
• Critique the argument for or against adventure tourism and ecotourism.