experiential learning outdoor tools increasing the impact
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Experiential learning
Outdoor tools increasing the impact
Outward Bound®
Outward Bound ® International is an international educational organization with over 60-year tradition. It is the biggest outdoor organization in the World, with over 32 centers on 5 continents. The first center was established by Kurt Hahn, a German educator, in 1941 in Great Britain.
Outward Bound ® Slovakia is a non-for-profit organization aimed at personality development in
young people marginalized groups organizations and companies
Key areas of development Self-knowledge Tenacity Self-Reliance Teamwork Leadership Social and Environmental Responsibility Craftsmanship Physical fitness
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Tools experiential education outdoor interactivity review
Experiential education = learning by doing
We remember
10% of what we hear 50% of what we hear and see 80% of what we hear, see,
and do
Learning cycle(David Kolb, 1976)
1. Experience(activity, game)
2. Reflexion(review, feedback)
3. Evaluation
1.Change in behaviour(„What shall I
keep/change?“)
Target areas group processes – team roles and
cooperation, decision making, leadership
interpersonal behaviour – effective communication, feedback, argumentation, active listening
problem solving – time management, pro-activity, strategy planning
individual – creativity, tenacity, self-reliance, stretching of comfort zone
Work with vulnerable groups 1
Potential target groups: Ethnic minorities Socially deprived youth from lower
economic strata Youth from orphanages and crises
centers Physically handicapped
Work with vulnerable groups 2
Program focus: Experience – doing real things in
the real (but safe) enviroment Integration with majority (mixed
groups) Responsibility and self-reliance
Selected projects 1 Summer on the edge: Target group – young people (age 17 -18) from
orphanages on the edge of „real life“ Improving social and individual skills that are
necessary after leaving orphanage – active aproach to the life, problem solving, conflict resolution etc.
Activities and games simulating situations like dealing with money, taking care of someone else, applying for job etc.
Activities: Tamagotchi, Money, Theatre, City Challenge
Selected projects 2 Behind the borders of average life: Long term project Target group - mix group of young people with
and without handicap Needs/problems of the group – insufficient
contact with majority population, children are closed in the dormitory and detached from the real life
Focus on: active aproach to the life, integration with majority, stretching the comfort zone
Activities: preparing theatre performance for public, film document about project made by participants, trips to the country
Selected projects 3 Back to work Target group – unemployed women with
bad socio-economic background Needs/Problems of the group: being out
of work for the long time, dependancy on the social network
Program: training and improvement of social skills – negotiation, problem solving, presentation – precondition for success in applying for a job
Selected projects 4 London Challenge Courses organized by Outward Bound United
Kingdom Target group: young people from lower
economic strata living in the London suburbs (mainly immigrants)
Needs/problems of the group – living in the harmful, depriving enviroment (crime, drugs, social exclusion), no vision of alternative way of life
Programme: providing new intense imputs how to spend a free time – outdoor activities (expeditions, sailing, rock climbing, camping etc.)
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