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Affordances of an Ocean Walk

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Experiencing the Outdoors

Part of the book series: Researching Environmental Learning ((RELE))

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Internationally outdoor education has a number of differing foci ranging from adventure based therapy to environmental and ecological awareness. Diversity of what constitutes education in the outdoors is observed when one looks at North American adventure education which has roots drawn from Kurt Hahn and the Outward Bound movement and has seen substantial growth over the past 15 years (Attarian, 2001).

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    Colin Hoad

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    Margaret Robertson

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    Ruth Lawrence

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    Gregory Heath

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Hoad, C. (2015). Affordances of an Ocean Walk. In: Robertson, M., Lawrence, R., Heath, G. (eds) Experiencing the Outdoors. Researching Environmental Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-944-9_13

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