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The Urban Adventure Classroom:

Technology, Teambuilding, and Place-Based Experiential Education

The What’s and Why’s of Experiential Education

John DeweyLearning is rooted

in primary experience.

Experience occurs on a continuum.

Learning is a social process.

The What’s and Why’s of Experiential EducationKurt Hahn

Physical, mental, emotional challenge as a base of education.

Importance of triumph and failure.

Expeditions and service as methods of education.

Concreteexperience

Reflectiveobservation

Abstractconceptualization

Activeexperimentation

Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model

Historical Roots of Experiential Education at Boston University

1912-1940’s – Outdoor Education teacher training

1950’s-2000’s – School Camping Program

1950’s-1960’s – Expedition camping program

1970’s-1980’s – Human Environment Institute

1970’s-1980’s – Executive Challenge

2005-Present – GPS Urban Adventures

Existing teams might regress back to an earlier stage of development

Forming

Storming

Norming

Performing

Adjourning

Stages of Team Development

Experiential Education in the Digital Age

Locations

• Boston• Cambridge• Newport• Salem

• St. Paul• Little Rock• Manchester• Albuquerque• Brussels

Case Study: New Student Orientation

Common Groundhttp://www.bu.edu/buee/case-studies/common-ground/

Sargent College Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program

School of Management MBA

Case Study: Academic Courses SMG OB221: Dynamics of Leading

OrganizationsSAR HP650: Health Care

ManagementMET AD733: Leadership in

Management

BUEE in the Future

Boston Harbor IslandsGreater Boston

Metropolitan AreaExecutive EducationHigh School Social

StudiesIntensive Experiential

Adventures

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