History of Education Review: Volume 49 Issue 1

Outdoor education in historical perspective

Mark Freeman, Jayson Seaman

The introduction sets out the scope of the special issue and suggests areas for further research.

Dartmouth Outward Bound Center and the rise of experiential education, 1957–1976

Jayson Seaman, Robert MacArthur, Sean Harrington

The article discusses Outward Bound's participation in the human potential movement through its incorporation of T-group practices and the reform language of experiential…

Czech education in nature traditions

Andrew Martin, Geoff Watson, Jan Neuman, Ivana Turčová, Lucie Kalkusová

The purpose of this paper is to examine Czech traditions of outdoor games and sports, turistika activities and education in nature programmes, which have continued to develop…

‘Doing nature’ and being a Guide: the problem of the town guide in the British Girl Guides Association, 1930–1960

Sian Edwards

To explore the advice given by the British Girl Guides Association, a popular girls' youth organisation, to urban members in the period from 1930 to 1960.

“You can't be an atheist here”: Christianity and Outward Bound in Britain, c.1941–1965

Mark Freeman

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of formal religion in the early years of Outward Bound, a significant outdoor education organisation in Britain, from the 1940s to…

Outdoor education: the Romantic origins at the University of St Mark and St John

Mark Leather, Gil Fewings, Su Porter

This paper discusses the history of outdoor education at a university in the South West England, starting in 1840.

The adventure (sex)pedition: revisiting Kurt Hahn's educational aims

Franklin Vernon

Discourses celebrating Kurt Hahn's practical and intellectual contributions to the field of progressive education are ubiquitous. However, the centrality of sexuality in Hahn's…