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A complete curriculum for outdoor and adventure activities<br />
Audiences: Curriculum guide for students preparing to teach outdoor and adventure skills. Also for outdoor recreation and adventure<br />
instructors and others who want to teach outdoor activities.<br />
Technical Skills for Adventure Programming: A Curriculum Guide is an<br />
all-in-one resource, based on current methods, that will guide you<br />
in becoming a skilled adventure instructor in the classroom and in<br />
the field. It will prepare you to teach a dozen land-based, waterbased,<br />
and winter activities, including backpacking, rock climbing,<br />
canoeing, and snowshoeing.<br />
This book, written and edited by expert instructors, includes<br />
• comprehensive units with lesson plans for 12 popular outdoor<br />
adventure activities;<br />
• 7 to 15 progressive lesson plans for each unit, featuring<br />
foundational teaching methods and assessment strategies for<br />
adventure technical skills;<br />
• an overview of the teaching process as it relates to adventurebased<br />
activities, including discussions of adventure education<br />
theory, learning styles, experiential learning and teaching, and<br />
outdoor teaching tips and considerations; and<br />
• a CD-ROM with printable lesson plans for each unit that make it<br />
easy to print only what you will need in the field.<br />
Technical Skills for Adventure Programming: A Curriculum Guide<br />
Mark Wagstaff, EdD, and Aram Attarian, PhD, Editors<br />
©2009 • Paperback with CD-ROM • 896 pp<br />
ISBN 978-0-7360-6699-0 • $59.00 ($69.95 CDN)<br />
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HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES<br />
Make adventure theory a learning adventure<br />
Audiences: Reference or supplemental text for college and university professors teaching adventure education, outdoor education, and related<br />
disciplines. Reference for those preparing for a career as an adventure educator or for educators teaching the basics of adventure theory.<br />
Written for students and instructors who want their classroom<br />
experience to be as involving as the field environment, Teaching<br />
Adventure Education Theory: Best Practices offers stimulating, fun,<br />
and engaging activities instructors can use in assisting future<br />
adventure educators, outdoor leaders, and group facilitators in<br />
making connections between adventure theory and practice.<br />
Editors Stremba and Bisson and leading adventure educators<br />
from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan provide a<br />
collection of 34 lesson plans covering topics including adventure<br />
theory, philosophy, history, and conceptual models. Each lesson<br />
plan provides detailed activity instructions, teaching suggestions,<br />
and an overview of the theory taught in the lesson to provide the<br />
instructor with background conceptual material. An instructor<br />
CD-ROM, included with the text, contains student handouts,<br />
worksheets, and PowerPoint presentations to facilitate lesson<br />
implementation and assessment.<br />
Teaching Adventure Education Theory: Best Practices<br />
Bob Stremba, EdD, and Christian Bisson, EdD, Editors<br />
©2009 • Paperback with CD-ROM • 408 pp<br />
ISBN 978-0-7360-7126-0 • $49.00 ($57.95 CDN)<br />
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In-depth coverage of key leadership skills<br />
Audiences: Undergraduate text for recreation, adventure, outdoor education, and physical education courses. Resource for college faculty<br />
members developing adventure programs; reference for adventure professionals.<br />
In Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming, Second Edition,<br />
the authors provide in-depth descriptions and real-world<br />
applications of the technical, organizational, instructional, and<br />
facilitative skills that are essential to adventure leadership. They<br />
also identify what they call the metaskills that superior leaders use<br />
to combine the other essential skills seamlessly and effectively.<br />
This fully updated book includes new information on legal liability,<br />
risk management skills, and future research trends in adventure<br />
programming. It also does the following:<br />
• Examines the historical and philosophical foundations of<br />
adventure programming<br />
• Provides safety and environmental guidelines that leaders<br />
should follow<br />
• Describes the organizational, instructional, and facilitation<br />
skills that outdoor adventure leaders should possess<br />
• Identifies the importance of flexible leadership style,<br />
problem-solving and decision-making skills, experience-based<br />
judgment, effective communication, and ethical behaviors.<br />
Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming, Second Edition<br />
Simon Priest, PhD, and Michael A. Gass, PhD<br />
©2005 • Hardback • 344 pp<br />
ISBN 978-0-7360-5250-4 • $52.00 ($60.95 CDN)<br />
For more outdoor and adventure resources, visit www.<strong>Human</strong><strong>Kinetics</strong>.com/OutdoorandAdventure 29
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