Implementation of Outdoor Education Programs: Sustaining Wellbeing through Health, Outdoor and Physical Education (HOPE): Pedagogy in education

Intention Two Draft Intention Three Challenging our understanding of the purpose of education Understandings from Dean Dodge The Lived Curriculum and Implications – Fort Qu’ Appelle Concept of Sustainability Concept of Community Concept of Humility

INTENTION TWO: Capturing the Meaning of Outdoor Education – drawing from previous academic work and referring to definitions or interpretations of the concept of Outdoor Education articulating a learning experience which demonstrates applications of curriculum and pedagogy that would assist other teachers… INTENTION THREE: Understanding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) – developing a personal position paper based upon current research and thinking relevant to local, national and international perspective associated with ESD and the University of Regina Strategic Plan (2009 – 2014). Strategic Plan

With gratitude comes responsibility. With gratitude comes an integral understanding of sustainability and community. Visser (2008) clarifies that: gratitude is necessary for the functioning of a healthy society, precisely because it reaches into areas of life that the law can neither control or inspire … we have to retrieve now and bring back into the light something that gratitude entails: respect for what is there, love for it (for itself and not for what we can gouge out of it). (p. 360)

OUTDOOR LIVING SKILLS CONTENT KNOWLEDGE SENSORY AWARENESS WITHITNESS REFLECTIVE ARTFUL/AESTHETIC LIVED EXPERIENCE

So... What is Outdoor Education Anyway? and... How do I deal with Intention Three?

Understanding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) – developing a personal position paper based upon current research and thinking relevant to local, national and international perspective associated with ESD and the University of Regina Strategic Plan (2009 – 2014). Built upon the Elements of Gravity: Sustainability, Community and Humility

it is important to understand the relevance and integral nature of three key conceptual elements … these elements are cohesively linked …. concepts of sustainability, community, and a third; humility, born out of gratitude are the ingredients which collectively provide the foundation for making sense of what … education needs to become.

Preparing for February 10 th Site Inventory (please take notes) Collecting data Data collection equipment and materials Dress for weather conditions Bring a snack and drink

Preparing for February 10 th Site Inventory

What do we take back? Through our senses... Through our collections... Through our written interpretation...

TENSION Current Reality Vision Current Reality Vision Emotional Creative

Echo Valley Experience Leaving the Education Building at 7:15 a.m.