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Land's Edge believes in assisting schools by providing Outdoor Education experiences, Curriculum Based Field Studies and Recreational Activities that contain aspects of:
- Appreciation
- Investigation
- Natural Places
Which pay creed to different ways of:
- Experiencing
- ‘Knowing' a place
- Utilizing opportunities
All within a framework which is:
- Professional
- Supportive
- Flexible
- Innovative
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This diagram represents the traditional opportunities for student's education outdoors.
It reflects how in the past, movement from one outcome to another on any one program was extremely limited.
Outcomes can only have been singular e.g. Adventure or Curriculum Links or Aesthetics & Personal/Social Growth. |
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Land's Edge recognises the value and acknowledges a place for Traditional Education Outdoors Outcomes but uses them in a more expansive framework (see below).
Realistic, multiple learning outcomes can be achieved by shifting the focus to the Land's Edge Key Components :
- Appreciation
- Investigation
- Natural Places
- Journeying
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- Experiencing
- ‘Knowing' a place
- Utilizing opportunities
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By encompassing these key components within the Land's Edge Framework a higher level of service is achieved, hence the Land's Edge Education Model
The holistic nature of the philosophy promotes student learning and achievement on several different levels during any one program or program segment. It therefore allows programs to be implemented that realistically cater for the diverse requirement's schools have for their education outdoor's programs.
The Land's Edge philosophy demonstrates the distinctive ability to meet many learning outcomes in spite of external factors such as physical abilities, confidence levels, academic prowess, situational circumstances, prior experience or cultural background.
Definitions of Terms
- Adventure: a strange or exciting undertaking
- Aesthetics: the philosophy of art and beauty
- Curriculum Links: providing a connection to a prescribed course of study
- Experiencing: knowledge gained by seeing and doing, both of a physical and mental nature; an affecting event
- Flexible: adaptable and versatile
- Innovative: to bring in something new; make changes to something established
- Investigation: to inquire, examine; a search to uncover knowledge
- Journeying: travelling or moving from one place to another. A physical or mental change of location or thought. Used to describe both an individual and/or a groups progress
- Knowing A Place : having different and varying knowledge or intelligence of a particular location or area
- Natural Places: a location or area where nature is paramount; not artificial; true to nature
- Personal/Social Growth: pertaining to an individuals or groups process of development; to come into being
- Professional: requiring specialised knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation; conforming to the technical and ethical standards of a profession
- Supportive: to hold up; to tolerate; to assist and advocate an individual and/or an organisation
- Utilizing Opportunities: relates to Programming that is of a suitable duration and allows for the right moment; an opportunity
- Appreciation: of our environment, ‘self ‘ and community
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