TY - BOOK ID - 134934584 TI - Outdoor Adventure Education : Trends and New Directions PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - outdoor adventure education KW - social justice KW - inclusive praxis KW - Outward Bound KW - policy KW - purposes KW - practice KW - barriers KW - outdoor learning KW - outdoor and adventure education KW - international perspectives KW - comparative KW - experiential learning KW - transformative learning KW - equity KW - pedagogy KW - whiteness KW - gender KW - critical theory KW - outdoor education KW - outdoor skills KW - partnership KW - outdoor programs KW - outdoor education in urban areas KW - outdoor recreation KW - female empowerment KW - single-gender KW - adolescent programming KW - adolescent girls KW - outdoor camp KW - girls’ camp KW - youth development KW - treasure hunt KW - mobile learning KW - geocaching KW - smartphone KW - educational app KW - Lesvos island KW - secondary education students KW - undergraduate students KW - nature-based programs KW - ecological framework KW - COVID-19 impact KW - n/a KW - girls' camp UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134934584 AB - The overall focus, scope, and purpose of this Special Issue on outdoor adventure is to provide the current and anticipated future trends, offer innovative ideas for new programs, support decision making for managers to move plans and intentions into action, inspire pioneering staff training and leadership development, incite policy reviews and revisions, promote resource (re)allocation where needed, and stimulate culture shifts among outdoor leaders and managers. Furthermore, this Special Issue is situated within the existing literature by depicting major trends in the field, exploring organizational issues and successes, identifying gaps between research and practice, and formulating solutions to some of the field’s most pressing challenges. Of particular interest were manuscripts reporting the following: • Adventure education across diverse cultures; • Innovative partnerships for experiential education outdoors; • Land management agencies working with adventure education programs; • Leadership and/or management issues and challenges; • Programming advances, participation trends; • Recruitment and retention of diverse staff, workforce enhancement; • Social groups/identity and outdoor spaces (e.g., people of color and outdoor adventure; women in the outdoors—where have we been, where are we going?; LGBTQ trends and future directions; youth and outdoor adventure); • Socioeconomic factors and solutions; • Technology influences and adventure education; • Working with schools/school districts and being in sync with curriculum needs, supporting transportation challenges, etc. ER -