Outdoor Education & Environmental Education

Centre for Excellence in Outdoor and Environmental Education

Outdoor and Environmental Education Resources

Staff in the Centre for Excellence in Outdoor Education make a significant contribution to the body of knowledge in the outdoor and environmental education fields. On this page, a selection of recent publications from staff may be downloaded by clicking the links below. In many cases, the final paper as published can be downloaded, in other cases only the final draft of the paper can be downloaded (due to the copyright restrictions of some publishers). The full list of CEOEE staff publications may be accessed from individual staff webpages.

Outdoor Education Curriculum

Brookes, A. (2004). Astride a long-dead horse. Mainstream outdoor education theory and the central curriculum problem. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 8(2), 22-33.

Brookes, A. (2003). A critique of neo-Hahnian outdoor education theory. Part two: ‘the fundamental attribution error’ in contemporary outdoor education discourse. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 3(2), 119-132.

Brookes, A. (2003). A critique of neo-Hahnian outdoor education theory. Part one: challenges to the concept of ‘character building’. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 3(1), 49-62.

Brookes, A. (2002). Lost in the Australian bush: outdoor education as curriculum. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 34(4), 405-425.

Gough, Noel. (2008). Ecology, ecocriticism and learning: how do places become 'pedagogical'? Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 5(1), 71-86.  http://nitinat.library.ubc.ca/ojs/index.php/tci/article/view/277/280

Thomas, G. J. (2005b). Traditional adventure activities in outdoor environmental education, Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 9(1), 31-39.

Outdoor Leadership and Facilitation

Thomas, G. J. (in press). Difficult groups or difficult facilitators? Three steps facilitators can take to make sure they are not the problem. In S. Schuman (Ed.), Working with difficult groups. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Thomas, G. J. (in press). Facilitator, teacher, or leader? Managing conflicting roles in outdoor education. Journal of Experiential Education.

Thomas, G. J. (2008). When research content reflects research process: Unexpected but welcome symmetries. Qualitative Research Journal, 8(2), 2-13.

Thomas, G. J. (2008). Facilitate first thyself: The importance of person-centered approaches to facilitator education. Journal of Experiential Education, 31(2), 168-188.

Thomas, G. J. (2008). Preparing facilitators for experiential education: The role of intentionality and intuition. Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning, 8(1), 3—20.

Thomas, G. J. (2007). Skill instruction in outdoor leadership: A comparison of a direct instruction model and a discovery-learning model. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 11(2), 10-18.

Thomas, G. J. (2006). Facilitator education: Learning from group counselor education. Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal, 7, 3-12.

Thomas, G. J. (2005a). Facilitation in education for the environment. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 21, 107-116.

Thomas, G. J. (2005c). Dimensions of facilitator education. In S. Schuman (Ed.), The IAF handbook of group facilitation: Best practices from the leading organisation in facilitation (pp. 525-541). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Place-focussed outdoor education

Blades, G. (2005) "If you don't mind going places without a map, follow me:" Re-stor(y)ing of self, place and educator. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education. Vol. 9 (2), pp. 3 - 13.

Stewart, A. (2006). Seeing the trees and the forest: Attending to Australian natural history as if it mattered. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 22 (2), 85-97.

Stewart, A. (2004). Decolonising encounters with the Murray River: Building place responsive outdoor education. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education , 8(2), 46-55.

Stewart, A. (2004). Canoeing the Murray River (Australia) as environmental education: A tale of tale of two rivers . Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 9, 136-147.

Stewart, A. (2003). Reinvigorating our love of our home range: Exploring the connections between sense of place and outdoor education . Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 7(2), 17-24.

Environmental Education

Gough, Annette, & Gough, Noel. (in press). Environmental education. In Craig Kridel (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Gough, Noel and Price, Leigh (2004) Rewording the world: poststructuralism, deconstruction and the 'real' in environmental education. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education . 21: 23-36.

Gough, Noel, Gough, Annette, Appelbaum, Peter, Appelbaum, Sophia, Doll, Mary Aswell and Sellers, Warren (2003) Tales from Camp Wilde : queer(y)ing environmental education research. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education , 8: 44-66.

Gough, Noel (2002) Thinking/acting locally/globally: Western science and environmental education in a global knowledge economy. International Journal of Science Education 24 (11): 1217-1237.

Gough, Noel (2002) Ignorance in environmental education research. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 18: 19-26.

Gough, Noel (2002) Rethinking globalisation. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 18: 87-89.

Human-Nature Relationships

Martin, P. (2007). Caring for the Environment: Challenges from the notions of caring. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 23, 57-64

Martin, P. (2004). Outdoor Education for Human/Nature Relationships. Paper presented at : Connections and Disconnections: Examining the reality and rhetoric. International perspectives on outdoor education theory and practice, La Trobe University Bendigo.

Martin, P. (2004) Outdoor Adventure in Promoting Relationships with Nature. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education. vol. 8, 1, pp. 20-28.

Safety Management

Brookes, A. (2007). Preventing death and serious injury from falling trees and branches. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 11(2), 50-59.

Brookes, A. (2007). Research update: Outdoor education fatalities in Australia. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 11(1), 3-9.

Brookes, A. (2004). Outdoor education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002. Part 3. Environmental circumstances. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 8(1), 44-56.

Brookes, A. (2003). Outdoor education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002. Part 2. Contributing circumstances: supervision, first aid, and rescue. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 7(2), 34-42.

Brookes, A. (2003). Outdoor education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002. Part 1. Summary of incidents and introduction to fatality analysis. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 7 (2002)(1), 20-35.

Professional Issues

Martin, P. (2008). Teacher qualification guidelines, ecological literacy and outdoor education. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 12(2), 32-38.

Martin, P. (2008). Outdoor Education in senior schooling: clarifying the body of knowledge. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 12(1), 13-24.

Munge, B. (2009). From the outside looking in: A study of Australian employers' perceptions of graduates from outdoor education degree programs. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 13(1), 30-38.

Parks Management and Interpretation

Slattery B. J., Ralph, D., & Slattery D. A. (2008) Vagabond. The Story of Charles Sanger. Castlemaine: Friends of Box-Ironbark Forests.

Slattery, D. (2008). Review of Henderson, B. & Vikander, N. (2007). Nature first: Outdoor life the friluftsliv way. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 12(1), 44-46.

Slattery B. J. & Slattery D. A. (2005) Exclusion or Engagement? Cultural Obstacles To Restricting Access In National Parks. Historic Environment Journal. Canberra: Department of the Environment and Heritage.

Slattery, D. A. (2005) For Sale – Scotland’s most famous mountain range: land ‘ownership’ in Scotland and Australia, Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. 5, 2, pp. 119-130.