Outdoor Education & Environmental Education

Centre for Excellence in Outdoor and Environmental Education

Staff Profile

Peter Dingle

Lecturer

Room/Location: Ironbark Centre, 2.04
Ph: 5444 7486
Fx: 5444 7848
Email: p.dingle@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications

• Diploma Civil Engineering (Bendigo) (1972)
• Graduate Diploma Outdoor Education (Bendigo) (1990)

Professional Involvement

• Member VOEA
• Victorian Sea Kayak Club-Liaison officer with Marine Safety Board, 2003

Teaching Areas

• Outdoor Living and Travel Skills (OLATS A & B), year 1, OE & NT (Unit co-ordinator)
• River Environments 2. Year 2 OE, (Unit co-ordinator)
• Outdoor Environments 1 & 2, GD, (Unit co-ordinator)
• Outdoor Education 1B, GD, (Unit co-ordinator)
• Also assist teaching in Field Experience 1A (year 1) and Community (year 2)

Research Interests

Interested in teaching the student and the subject. Teaching focus is on environment of the student through the subject content and promotion of understanding of self. Research interests are similar, as well as natural wayfinding and weather interpretation outdoors.