1. WELCOME TO EOE 224Introduction to Outdoor Education Dr. Garth Pickard http://education.uregina.ca/pickard/

2. A Conversation About ... How next happens . . . What happens next

3. Begin to understand the 5INTEGRALcomponents of Outdoor Education; and, Begin to understand How next happens ...

4. Understand how important you are ... How key this EOE 224 class is to your personal and professional growth ...

5. Integrality Experiential Multi-sensory Unique learning classrooms Interdisciplinarity Spiritual Ownership Traditional Process OUTDOOR EDUCATION Groupness Trust Risk Responsibility

6. Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill and value from direct experience EXPERIENTIAL

7. Experiencing our learning by using our complex sensory systems. Our species has an innate need to see, touch, taste, feel, and hear the features of any new object in order to understand it better MULTI-SENSORY

8. LEARNING CLASSROOM

9. Interdisciplinarity occurs when disciplines intermesh and collaborate among themselves. INTERDISCIPLINARITY

10. Humility – born out of gratitude SPIRITUALITY

11. KNOWLEDGE LITERACY PRACTICAL and APPLIED LANGUAGE LITERACY NUMERACY LIVING SKILLS MOTOR LITERACY

12. FIRE LIGHTING ROPE PRACTICAL and APPLIED ORIENTEERING OUTDOOR LIVING SKILLS COOKING SHELTERS HIKING

13. How next happens . . . What happens next

14. WHY YOU ARE IMPORTANT? BECAUSE YOU ARE KEY TO ... EDUCATIONAL CHANGE

15. EDUCATIONAL CHANGE EDUCATIONAL for SUSTAINABILITY (ESD)

16. What has happened (a brief history) 1992- Rio Earth Summit – Agenda 21 (Ch.36) Severn 2013 – Geneva – Competencies 2012 – Rio + 20 Earth Summit Conference on Sustainable Development 1972- UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (UNEP) 2009 – UNESCO Bonn Declaration 1968- UNESCO organized the first intergovernmental conference to reconcile environment and development. 2002 – UNESCO Johannesburg Summit (Earth Charter initiative) 2000 - Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (respect for nature)

17. What has happened (a brief history) • The Purpose of Education Re-focus • The Role of Teachers Around the World • A Pedagogical Shift • Climate Change • Global Awareness

18. The Purpose of Education: - Sustaining the Well-being, of all, forever • A curricula that gives purpose to this cause ... (ESD) • The Pedagogy of Education: - Five elements for Learning • A way of learning that breathes life into knowledge and understanding ... • interdisciplinarity • experiential • place-based • multi-sensory • spiritual

19. The crisis of sustainability, the fit between humanity and its habitat, is manifest in varying ways and degrees everywhere on earth. It is not only a permanent feature on the public agenda; for all practical purposes it is the agenda … consider consequences of actions The content of our curriculum and the process of education, with a few notable exceptions, has not changed … what is apparent … is that we do not worry about what our children and young people learn and how well they learn it until a crisis happens along. The crisis cannot be solved by the same kind of education that helped create the problems (Orr, 1992) Chris Jordan

20. YOUR Educational Leadership • Educational competencies • Courage to change • Outdoor Trek Schools • Trust and risk

21. WELCOME TO EOE 224Introduction to Outdoor Education Dr. Garth Pickard http://education.uregina.ca/pickard/