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Outdoor Education: Methods and Strategies Book Reviewed by Patrick T. Maher Gilbertson, K., Bates, T., McLaughlin, T., & Ewert, A. (2006). Outdoor Education: Methods and Strategies. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. 213 pages. ISBN 0-7360-4709-3.
Teaching at a university, I can honestly say that at least once a month I get another publisher's flyer advertising textbooks. Thus, I often notice the variety of introductory outdoor education textbooks on the market, whether updated editions of older texts, or entirely new books. Outdoor Education: Methods and Strategies by Gilbertson, Bates, McLaughlin, and Ewert is one of the latter such texts. Its purpose is perhaps not looking to redesign the wheel, but introducing a few new thoughts and shine a new light on some well-used concepts. Gilbertson et al. preface the text as a "book [that] focuses on methods and techniques that are unique to teaching in an outdoor setting" (p. vii). Additionally, the authors propose it for a broad audience, all outdoor educators, new or veteran.
By the time I finished reading the preface I had already found one short paragraph to be very refreshing. This paragraph described teaching in the outdoors...