TY - BOOK ID - 7986261 TI - Experiential Education and Adolescents’ Personal and Spiritual Development : A Mixed-Method Study in the Secondary School Context of Hong Kong PY - 2013 SN - 3531185756 3531191209 1283908611 PB - Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, DB - UniCat KW - High school teachers -- Training of. KW - Interdisciplinary approach in education. KW - Middle school education -- Activity programs. KW - Middle school teachers -- Training of. KW - Education KW - Social Sciences KW - Theory & Practice of Education KW - Experiential learning. KW - Active learning. KW - Action learning KW - Activity learning KW - Activity teaching KW - Experience-based learning KW - Learning, Experiential KW - Education. KW - International education. KW - Comparative education. KW - International and Comparative Education. KW - Education, general. KW - Learning KW - Experiential learning KW - Experience KW - Active learning KW - International education . KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Education, Comparative KW - Global education KW - Intellectual cooperation KW - Internationalism KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7986261 AB - Adventure-based programs have become prevailing in the schools in Hong Kong. Due to the little empirical examination to the frequent use of experiential education, Chung Kwan Ackie Cheung uses mixed methods to establish its first phenomenal picture, addressing the scale of the use of experiential education and the impact of it on adolescents’ development with regard to the globalizing phenomenon of Hong Kong. The findings show that experiential education, esp. adventure-based program, has been widely-spread and there is positive impact in the specified aspects self-concept, self-efficacy, learning climate and spiritual dimension of its adolescent learners. ER -