Outdoor and Experiential Education

Learning ought to be supported by both in class activities and outdoor activities contributing to structuring knowledge. Outdoor activities allow children to actively participate and to learn by doing. Learning requires a lot of work and activities. These activities, which provide primary experiences, help children to…

• GÜZİN ÖZYILMAZ
• RUKİYE GÜNSELİ YILDIRIM

Environmental education for young children has great potential for fostering the skills, values, and dispositions that support sustainability. While North American guidelines emphasize the importance of using the natural world for open-ended exploration, discovery, and play, this approach has been criticized for lacki…

• FİRDEVS BURÇAK

The purpose in this study was to examine differences between risky sport participants and nonparticipants using the Big Five (McCrae & Costa, 1997) personality traits. The sample included 328 individuals ranging in age from 18 to 53 (M = 23.42 and SD = 3.98). The Five Factor Personality Inventory developed by Somer, K…

• SERDAR TOK

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a science education project implemented in different learning environments on secondary school students’ creative thinking skills and their attitudes to science lesson. Within this scope, a total of 50 students who participated in the nature education project in S…

• EROL TAŞ

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a science education project implemented in different learning environments on secondary school students’ creative thinking skills and their attitudes to science lesson. Within this scope, a total of 50 students who participated in the nature education project in S…

• CUMHUR TÜRK

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate whether active outdoor play and/or sports at age 10 is associated with sport/physical activity at 32 year follow-up using a birth cohort study. METHODS: Data were from the 1970 British Cohort Study, a longitudinal observational study. The present paper included data from the…

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• EREN YÜCEL

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• SERKAN BULDUR

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• MURAT BURSAL
• NAZAN YALÇIN ERİK

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• KADİR YILDIZ

Although individuals' life satisfaction have been studied in a tourism setting, there has been limited research suggesting the flow experience as a predictor of life satisfaction. Studies investigating the antecedents of flow experience in an adventure setting are also scarce. Therefore, this study was aimed to explor…

Outdoor education stands out as one of the methods to deliver the desired educational outcomes taking the needs of the students, teachers and the curricular objectives into consideration. Outdoor education focuses on experimental, hands-on learning in real-life environments through senses, e.g., through visual, audito…

• ÖZCAN PALAVAN