The Rites of Passage and Outdoor Education: Critical Concerns for Effective Programming

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Bell
Keyword(s):  
Outdoor Education ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Goal Congruence ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Outdoor Programs ◽  
The Many ◽  
Outdoor Adventure Programs ◽  
Outdoor Educators

Rites of passage practices have caught the attention of educators seeking better methods of teaching adolescents. The fascination with the rites of passage model (ROP) is especially strong among outdoor educators. Once Van Gennep (1960) defined the rites of passage, a three-stage system of social transformation mediating role changes in a community, anthropologists were able to observe his social conception throughout all cultures. Outdoor educators have demonstrated interest in framing outdoor programs as rites of passage because of the structural similarities between outdoor programs and Van Gennep's first and second stages of a rite of passage. While the ROP model has similarities to outdoor programs, the model is generally ineffective in most contemporary contexts because of challenges associated with the third stage of the ROP model. It is important for outdoor programs to understand these challenges prior to investing effort into using ROP models to achieve expected lasting benefits. Most outdoor adventure programs use a Contemporary Adventure Model to mediate change, a fundamentally different rite of passage from the classic anthropological model. Outdoor educators need to decide among three choices with a ROP: abandon the ROP framework based upon a lack of goal congruence, follow a classic model and answer the many challenges the model brings with it, or follow a contemporary adventure model while cognizant of the model's weaknesses.

scholarly journals The Contribution Transport Time Makes to Outdoor Programs: A Third Place?

2021 ◽  
pp. 105382592110190
Author(s):  
Chris North ◽  
Simon Beames ◽  
Toby Stanton ◽  
Bacon Chan
Keyword(s):  
Outdoor Education ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Third Places ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Transport Time ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Broad Variety ◽  
Outdoor Programs ◽  
Outdoor Educators

Background: During transport to and from outdoor education field trips, students experience a period of togetherness and minimal imposed structure. Transport time also appears to align with Oldenburg’s third places, where people spend time together without a particular agenda. Purpose: To examine educators’ perspectives on the contribution that transport time makes to OE programs through an analysis featuring the characteristics of third places. Methodology/Approach: The perspectives of 16 outdoor educators (four each from New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, and Scotland) were gathered using a semi-structured interview protocol. Data were analyzed using a deductive process based on the third place characteristics; four unforeseen themes also emerged. Findings/Conclusions: Findings highlighted the centrality of conversation between students and between students and educators; the low profile of transport time; and a sense of excitement and fun. Students controlled the intensity of their “presence” through the use of devices (where allowed) and by selecting their sitting position in the vehicle. Implications: The findings show that transport time allowed students to have a broad variety of conversations that could be variously silly and fun, deep and introspective. Educators are encouraged to more carefully consider the contribution that transport time makes to their programs.

scholarly journals William James and the Sustainable Transformation of Values, with a Case Study for Rethinking the American Dream

Human Arenas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Croce
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
American Dream ◽  
William James ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Many

AbstractThis article addresses the call of the Psychology of Global Crises conference for linkage of academic work with social issues in three parts: First, examples from conference participants with their mix of bold calls for social transformation and realization of limits, a combination that generated few clear paths to achieving them. Second, presentation of Jamesian practical idealism with psychological insights for moving past impediments blocking implementation of ideals. And third, a case study of impacts from the most recent prominent crisis, the global pandemic of 2020, which threatens to exacerbate the many crises that had already been plaguing recent history. The tentacles of COVID’s impact into so many problems, starting with economic impacts from virus spread, present an opportunity to rethink the hope for constant economic growth, often expressed as the American Dream, an outlook that has driven so many of the problems surging toward crises. Jamesian awareness of the construction of ideological differences and encouragement of listening to those in disagreement provide not political solutions, but psychological preludes toward improvements in the face of crises.

scholarly journals Gateway to Outdoors: Partnership and Programming of Outdoor Education Centers in Urban Areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 340
Author(s):  
Paige O’Farrell ◽  
Hung-Ling (Stella) Liu
Keyword(s):  
Outdoor Education ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Outdoor Educators ◽  
Service Location ◽  
Social Ecological Framework

The purpose of the study is to understand the challenges and opportunities of urban outdoor education centers in partnership and programming. The context for this study involves efforts by all-season outdoor education centers, Outdoor Campus (OC), in two urban areas in South Dakota (SD). Outdoor education scope and social-ecological framework were applied to guide this qualitative study. Semi-structured interview questions were used to interview eight outdoor educators in 2019, including four individuals from each service location composed of three males and five female educators. Qualitative content analysis was applied to identify common themes and essential quotations that emerged from the data analyzed through the interviews. Three main themes emerged: (1) gateway to our outdoor legacy (2) working together for outdoor education, including three sub-themes: formal partnership, programmatic partnership, and finding balance in partnership, (3) challenges as opportunities in outdoor education programs, including two sub-themes: common challenges and evolving process.

The Modern Boy’s Rite of Passage and the Lacking Component of Transcendental Death Acknowledgement

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-233
Author(s):  
Elias Hage
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Memento Mori ◽  
Insight Into

This article explores the historical tendencies of male rites of passage and the modern expression of rite of passage as lacking the central component of transcendental death acknowledgement (Memento Mori) as seen for years past in various cultures. This article examines the necessity of developing an attunement toward objective transcendentalism among youth upon which an understanding of death may be appropriately developed. Without such a foundation, Memento Mori formulates hopelessness and fear within the boy, stunting his rite of passage into manhood. After offering cultural examples of death acknowledgement, we shall enter an analysis of Memento Mori on today’s cultural relativistic subjectivism to underscore the importance of objective transcendentalism before the incorporation of death acknowledgement within the rite of passage of the boy. This article concludes by offering insight into modern incorporation of Memento Mori within local communities.

Positive Psychology and Outdoor Education

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dene S. Berman ◽  
Jennifer Davis-Berman
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Outdoor Education ◽  
Dynamic Tension ◽  
Outdoor Programs

A relatively new movement in psychology, positive psychology, has many implications for the field of outdoor education. Positive psychology has the goal of fostering excellence through the understanding and enhancement of factors that lead to growth. It embraces the view that growth occurs when positive factors are present, as opposed to the notion that it is the result of dynamic tension. This article argues that traditional models of change that rely upon disequilibrium may not be the best to use in outdoor programs. After presenting examples of positive psychological applications to outdoor programs, implications for outdoor education and therapy programs are discussed.

scholarly journals One Track - Many Paths: Toward a Critique of Educating for the Knowledge Economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Warren William Sellers
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

<p>In this thesis the role of education and learning in the so-called knowledge economy is examined in the light of existing and emerging, essentially different ways of perceiving and understanding the world. The study finds evidence that education is becoming ideologically and practically central to the propagation and implementation of the knowledge economy. Educating for the knowledge economy concerns not only the preparation of ideal economic citizens, it is also regarded as a valuable economic commodity in its own right. My hypothesis, however, is that education and the knowledge economy, while claiming to afford global social transformation, remain grounded in the modern worldview that is being critically challenged by postmodern views and understandings of the world. This is not to say that a modern worldview is 'incorrect', rather, it is to say that there are postmodern alternatives to carefully consider. I distinguish 'postmodern' within three positions, each with a different perspective about knowledge: one is power-based, another anti-power-based, and yet another ecologically-based. I argue that there is a modern worldview and postmodern positions with different worldviews, giving rise to incommensurabilities between the respective understandings of the world each position has. To navigate between these understandings I have engaged with the theory of enactivism. Enactivism enfolds the exploring and performing of learning and teaching theories that embody ecological and complex postmodern characteristics. The many paths of variety and diversity these characteristics reveal are contrasted with modern educational characteristics, before each is compared to consider the merits, or otherwise, of going down the track of educating for the knowledge economy.</p>

scholarly journals L’abito immaginato. Abbigliamento e identità nell’albo illustrato moderno

2020 ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Claudia Pazzini
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

The essay focuses on the examination of a selection of children’s picture books on the theme of clothing as an element of identity and as a means of personal and social transformation. The gender stereotype has always deprived children of the freedom to imagine themselves different from the imposed social model. Modern quality literature aims to free childhood from these constraints through stories that encourage the free expression of one's personality. "Clothing and childhood" is one of the binomial in which these themes appear most evident. While developing different plots, each selected book tells a story enriched by several levels of reading, more or less evident, and this is also due to particularly accurate illustrations, capable of adding further nuances to the text. Furthermore, even if characterized by the symbolic presence of clothes,  these picture books do not make them the narrative fulcrum. In each of these case studies, clothing becomes a pretext for a journey of self-discovery and affirmation of one's individuality in the world. These case studies are a concrete example of the potential of the picture book as a vehicle of complex concepts and stratifications of complementary or parallel meanings that emerge from the dynamic relationship of the text with the image. Each double page opens multiple, free interpretative paths that can be taken at each reading, as the eye catches new aspects and the thought opens up to new discoveries. The imaginary dress is therefore one of the many parallel topics that it was possible to address through these books, with which the possible interpretations of clothing in children's literature have been explored, highlighting above all how much garments are objects charged with metasignification or with projections of a identity in formation such as the one of children.

scholarly journals O Sucesso da Empreitada Maçônica no Brasil do Século XIX potencializado pelo Ethos do Rito Escocês Antigo e Aceito

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Anderson Claytron Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
High Load ◽  
Religious Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Universe

 O presente artigo mostra que existiu uma sólida estrutura religiosa financiadora da empreitada maçônica nos diversos locais que a mesma teve acesso e que o êxito desse empreendimento só foi possível pela alta carga de capital religioso presente na estrutura da maçonaria; a constituição Maçônica de 1723, os ritos de passagem e as muitas cosmogonias presentes nas antigas obrigações maçônicas, ajudaram no desenvolvimento da ordem elevando a mesma a uma missão de caráter transcendental. Em 1865 quando se tentou laicizar a maçonaria retirando do ritual a invocação do Grande Arquiteto do Universo, verificou-se através da mudança do rito moderno francês que a base religiosa brasileira era muito mais forte e se impôs à Ordem.  O estatuto maçônico através de sua herança religiosa dialogou profundamente com os preceitos da estrutura social que lhe deu aporte no século XIX, fornecendo uma forte base que serviu de alicerce para fundamentação de suas convicções. The present article shows that there was a solid religious structure that financed the Masonic enterprise in the various places that it had access and that the success of this enterprise was only possible due to the high load of religious capital present in the structure of Freemasonry; the Masonic constitution of 1723, the rites of passage and the many cosmogonies present in the old Masonic obligations, helped in the development of the order, elevating it to a mission of transcendental character. In 1865, when it was tried to lay Freemasonry by removing from the ritual the invocation of the Great Architect of the Universe, it was verified through the change of the modern French rite that the Brazilian religious base was very strong imposing itself before the Order. The Masonic statute through its religious inheritance deeply dialogue with the precepts of the social structure that gave him support in the nineteenth century, providing a strong foundation that served as a foundation for the foundation of his convictions..

scholarly journals Rite of Passage and Psychotherapy

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
E.G. Grebenyuk
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Movement Therapy ◽  
Analytical Psychology ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Transcultural Psychotherapy

Anthropological notion of the rite of passage and its stages are viewed. Different psychotherapeutic approaches (psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, trauma, transpersonal and transcultural psychotherapy, dance movement therapy, narrative approach and community work), which address to the structure and symbolic meaning of the rites of passage, are compared. Systematization of client requests and corresponding psychotherapeutic objectives based on the rite of passage as a metaphor of life changes is proposed. Opportunities of using metaphor in modern society are analyzed.

Goal congruence in teams and performance: The role of (shared) psychological contract fulfilment

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Frits Schreuder ◽  
René Schalk ◽  
Sasa Batistič
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Team Identification ◽  
Goal Congruence ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Person Environment Fit ◽  
Team Alignment ◽  
And Performance

AbstractThis study examines the motivating effects of goal congruence on outcomes in teams. Building on psychological contract theory and theories of person–environment fit, we proposed at the team level of analysis a mediating role of psychological contract fulfilment (PCF) and moderating effects of task interdependence and team identification. The results indicate partial mediation of shared PCF in the goal congruence – team performance relationships and a significant moderation effect of team identification with team alignment in learning goal orientations.

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