AEE Heartland Regional Conference 2015 1. 2 3 4.

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SO WHY DO WE DO IT?

AEE Heartland Regional Conference

2015

We are here

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Experiential learning and experiential education are buzzwords within many educational circles. These terms are often used interchangeably. There are numerous published definitions of experiential education (Joplin, 1981; Luckman, 1996; Itin, 1999). The Association for Experiential Education (2004) defines experiential education a philosophy that informs many methodologies in which educators purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection to increase knowledge, develop skills, and clarify values. Central to this definition is the distinction between experiential education as methodology and experiential education as philosophy. This distinction suggests that there is a difference between experiential learning and experiential education.

Experiential Education

… a philosophy that informs many methodologies in which educators purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection to increase knowledge, develop skills, and clarify values.

Association for Experiential Education (2013)www.aee.org

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Wilderness Education

Adventure Based Counseling

Inquiry

Service LearningArt, Play, Music, Drama & related Therapies

SimulationsExperience Based Training and

Development

Environmental Education

Internships

Expeditionary Learning

Adventure/Challenge Education

Philosophy of Experiential Education

And more…Equine Assisted Therapy

Cooperative Education Project Based Learning

Problem Based LearningAppreciative Inquiry

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EXCELLENT

EDUCATIONAL

ENGAGING

EXPERIENCES

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Cairns

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• People• Talents/Gifts• Ideas• Insights• Inspiration• Life Experience• Family• Beliefs & Ideals• Values• Theories & Models• …

What Guides You? What shows you the way?

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“So why do we do it?What good is it?

Does it teach you anything?Like determination? Invention?

Improvisation? Foresight? Hindsight?Love?

Art? Music? Religion?Strength or patience or accuracy or

quickness or tolerance orwhich wood will burn and how long is

a day?And how far is a mile?

And how delicious is water andsmoky green pea soup?

And how to relyon yourself?”

Terry and Renney Russell, On the Loose

John Smithhis

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"Those who stand for nothing

fall for anything.”Alexander Hamilton

• Personal

• Professional

• Ethical

• Philosophical

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Examples of Tools

Community Meetings Ropes Course Elements Simulations Activities Wilderness trips Rituals Curriculum Sharing/Talking circles

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“People and environments are never neutral, they are either summoning or shunning the development of human potential.”

Purkey & Novak, Inviting School SuccessSee Invitational Education at

www.invitationaleducation.net

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How do we Increase the Probability of Helping and

being Beneficial?

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Some (not so) Random Thoughts

Know my mission: Personally and Professionally

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The vision of the Association for Experiential Education is to contribute to making a more just and compassionate world by transforming education.

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Continuously explore the “why”

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Continuously explore the “why” Look through the activities and into the

process

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process Understand the medium

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process Understand the medium Strive to keep an open and broad view

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“… we are bombarded with messages about “what is” and what “ought to be.” [This is a] … “mystification or ‘surface reality,’ that many people take for granted asobjectively true.”

Maxine Greene, educational philosopher, author, social activist, and teacher

“To transcend the effects of mystification, it is necessary to wake up to the world and start seeing it from a variety of vantage points… Humans have the unique “capacity tosurpass the given and look at things as if they could beotherwise.”

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Look through the activities and into the process

Know (and trust) my medium Strive to keep an open and broad view Don’t take myself too seriously

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Look through the activities and into the process

Know (and trust) my medium Strive to keep an open and broad view Don’t take myself too seriously Be Intentional

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“It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.”

~ Wendell Berry

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• People• Talents/Gifts• Ideas• Insights• Inspiration• Life Experience• Family• Beliefs & Ideals• Values• Theories & Models

What Guides You? What shows you the way?

How have you added to your cairn so far at this conference?

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It is important to hold in mind … that the person – that center of choice – develops in his/her fullness to a degree he/she is a member of a live community.

~ Maxine Greene (1988) The Dialectic of Freedom

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