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Towards a theory of expedition education.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Towards a theory of expedition education./
Author:	Williams, Benjamin Stewart.
Description:	288 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Donald W. Oliver.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-04A.
Subject:	Education, Curriculum and Instruction. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=9968334
ISBN:	9780599730731

Towards a theory of expedition education.
Williams, Benjamin Stewart.

Towards a theory of expedition education. - 288 p.

Adviser: Donald W. Oliver.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Harvard University, 2000.

Are there deeper historical and philosophical traditions that connect ecological and holistic understandings of community, environment, and education together? This paper examines this question through a study of three decades of an expedition based environmental education program known as the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute (AEI) and its predecessor, the Trailside Country School.

ISBN: 9780599730731Subjects--Topical Terms:

576301
Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

Towards a theory of expedition education.
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520 $a Are there deeper historical and philosophical traditions that connect ecological and holistic understandings of community, environment, and education together? This paper examines this question through a study of three decades of an expedition based environmental education program known as the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute (AEI) and its predecessor, the Trailside Country School.
520 $a The model developed by AEI/TCS used a converted school bus as a mobile base for its program in expedition education. Students and teachers embarked on semester and yearlong expeditions in a small mobile learning community studying ecology, history, environment, and variation in American culture. While, initially based on field studies models, the long duration and community involvement in curriculum, itinerary, and other aspects of the program opened the possibility for a broader understanding of both education and environment in a process called "expedition education."
520 $a This study conceptualized expedition education through six different metaphors: definition, symbolism, history, grammar, rhetoric, and dialogue. The study connected the environmental and learning community orientations of these metaphors to the long-standing American philosophical traditions in progressive social thought and political change.
520 $a The purpose of the theory is to explain the longevity of a type of alternative education, which ordinarily has a more limited life span. The study speculates on a theoretical construction of the expedition learning community as a blending of democratic communal experience and more traditional forms of education. The core of the project describes the program in terms of characteristic stories that illustrate the quality and blending of community, education, and experience.
520 $a The study ends with a dialogue about the theoretical construct and its applications with a group of current and past field directors of AEI on the central thesis of the work: longevity related to a balance between communal and traditional educational forms. This section concludes with a sharp disagreement among past directors of the program regarding whether or not AEI has shifted towards a more conventional form of education or whether it has sustained a radical balance between community centered experiential education and more conventional models of environmental education.
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