1. Welcome to EOE 414 Implementation of Outdoor Education Programs: Sustaining Wellbeing through Health, Outdoor and Physical Education (HOPE): Pedagogy in education

2. Agenda for today Epilogue – a perspective What is the meaning of Outdoor Education and Challenging our understanding of the purpose of education Review - Walker “Hopefulness” Review – Parker J. Palmer “the Courage to Teach”Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life Neil Postman – the “End of Education”

4. What is the meaning of Outdoor Education • Challenging our understanding of the purpose of education • Concept of Sustainability • Walker “Hopefulness” • From your reading and our discussion take 10 minutes to write down five (5) key concepts that you think are relevant to understanding the purpose of education. • Share your concepts with your table group and work toward a consensus. • Have one member prepare a brief word document to share with the rest of the class.

5. If we want to develop and deepen the capacity for connectedness at the heart of good teaching, we must understand – and resist – the perverse but powerful draw of the “disconnected” life … from grade school on, education is a fearful enterprise. (Palmer, 2007: p. 36)

6. Neil Postman • An engineering Problem and a Metaphysical Problem • A ‘god’ to serve • The Loss of Narratives • The New Narratives of Public Education • Fostering alternatives • The Spaceship Earth • The Fallen Angel • An Experiment • The Mission of Educators and American Culture • Sustaining a dialogue about the metaphysical basis of public school

7. Purpose GoalsExpectationsCourse OutlineExpectations My passion and what it means . . . .

8. Next Experience Please Read and Review “The Land Ethic” in Leopold, Aldo (1949/1966). A Sand County Almanac. New York, New York: Sierra Club/Ballantine Book. Reading and Debate Reflecting on Educational Programming The Lafleche Experience