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While a doctoral student at Columbia University in New York in the 1920s, Lloyd Burgess Sharp integrated the pragmatic and experiential philosophies of John Dewey and other "New Educators" into the youth camping programs with which he was involved (Hammerman, Hammerman, & Hammerman, 1994; Rillo, 1980). This intersection of New Education with outdoor learning situations resulted in a slow but continual formation of an approach to learning that came to be known as "outdoor education," a term coined by Sharp in the mid-1940s (Knapp, 2000).
The purpose of this study was to construct a career history of Sharp and to identify his leadership influence in shaping the...