| Title | : | An Outdoor Educators Guide to Awe: Understanding High Impact Learning |
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| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 |
| Publication | : | First published December 12, 2014 |
This collection of essays addresses these questions through exploring personal experiences and bringing together the latest research on Awe and transformational moments in learning.
This is relevant is for those who look to increase the impact of their work. With contributions from the leading researchers and writers in the field, it explores how the educator can provide for high impact learning and create opportunities for awesome experiences that will last a life time.
An Outdoor Educators Guide to Awe: Understanding High Impact Learning Reviews
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This is a fantastic guide for educators of all kinds, even those who primarily teach in a classroom. Give your students the gift of experiencing awe!
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Awaken – A review of the book ‘An Outdoor Educator's Guide to Awe’
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain
Author Kevin Long’s book ‘An Outdoor Educator's Guide to Awe’ is a series of essays and reflections to improve the learning experience of students. It can be used as a guide by educators, instructors and by students themselves to identify and create unique moments of inspiration and wonderful experiences. Banking on the latest studies done in this field, it will help the reader see the bigger picture in life.
Divided into five sections, it chronicles the adventures involved in outdoor based learning. It seeks to make education more impactful than limit it to accumulation of diverse information. It encourages students to become interdependent with nature and see the bigger purpose of life. There is plenty of material in the book to support the feeling or emotion of awe. Towards the end of the book there is a section called ‘laboratory of awe’ which lists various activities and exercises that can be carried out to create awe. It’s something that can be used with groups of students as a team building exercise.
This book doesn’t claim to be a self-help book or an all revealing insightful book but it does provide hints and little activities to improve the learning experience for young students. It’s written in a simple and easy to understand manner. There are also some wonderful photographs, illustrations and quotes accompanying the text.
An Outdoor Educator's Guide to Awe tries to put everything you do in perspective of the grander scheme of things in life. It cheers the individual to find a greater meaning to one’s existence
