ABSTRACT

This essential guide promotes learning through activity-centred adventure experiences, providing skill development, social education and personal development for practitioners, teachers, support staff and youth groups.

This book offers advice and practical guidance on planning, setting up and running adventure education sessions with children and young people. Divided into two parts, it gives an overview of adventure education, explaining how it relates to holistic and outdoor learning and how it encourages active engagement from the learners as well as the instructors.

Adventure Education provides a toolkit of various games and activities that can be used with groups of young children, including parachute games, card and musical activities, and climbing and traversing games. This book will be essential reading for all Early Years practitioners, Primary teachers and support staff wanting to develop their skills and deliver adventure learning effectively, as well as youth groups looking to provide informal learning as well as physical opportunities.

part |105 pages

The Theory

chapter |3 pages

Introduction to adventure learning

chapter |5 pages

A brief philosophy and history

chapter |6 pages

Holistic learning

chapter |6 pages

Uniting the West and the East

chapter |3 pages

Learning and developing

chapter |4 pages

The team and its leadership

chapter |2 pages

The adventure learning instructor

chapter |3 pages

The adventure participant

chapter |3 pages

Risk assessment

chapter |5 pages

The adventure curriculum

chapter |3 pages

Delivery of adventure learning

chapter |2 pages

Outcomes of adventure

part |126 pages

The Toolkit

chapter |4 pages

Introduction to the toolkit

chapter |6 pages

Practical considerations

chapter |4 pages

Being an adventure learning instructor

chapter |12 pages

Icebreakers and energisers

chapter |13 pages

Teambuilding games

chapter |9 pages

Wide games

chapter |13 pages

Problem-solving games

chapter |4 pages

Parachute games

chapter |3 pages

Musical games

chapter |6 pages

Card games

chapter |11 pages

Just being outdoors

chapter |17 pages

More adventurous activities

chapter |6 pages

Why review activities and games?

chapter |9 pages

Tools for reviewing

chapter |7 pages

And finally …