Selected Papers & Abstracts from the Annual International Conference of the Association for Experiential Education (32nd, Norfolk, Virginia, November 4-7, 2004)

In an effort to persist with providing members--and interested others--with the content of workshops from the 32nd Annual Conference held in Norfolk, the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) has decided to develop a hybrid publication that has materialized in two parts. Part I includes 11 papers: (1) Adventure Coaching (Doug Gray); (2) Democracy in Russia: Today's Youth--Tomorrow's Leaders (Alayne Torretta); (3) Developing Peoples' Critical Thinking Skills through Experiential Education Theory and Practice (Mary C. Breunig); (4) Emotional Intelligence (Doug Gray); (5) Expanding a Critique of Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory (Drew Brennan); (6) Extended Stay Outdoor Education, Self-Esteem and Health-Related Fitness (Stephen Jelley); (7) Gender and Technical Skills (TA Loeffler and Karen Warren); (8) It's Not Just Camping with Kids: Curriculum Design in Adventure Education (Jeff Bairelein); (9) Lasting Learning During One-Day Ropes Course Programs (Leslie Schreiber); (10) Playing the Change Game: Approaching Outdoor Education as School Reform (Jayson Seaman); and (11) Ritual, Symbol, and the Raccoon Circle (Tom Smith). Part II consists of 35 workshop program descriptions submitted as part of the 2004 workshop proposals that have been formatted as abstracts. They are: (1) Accidents in Outdoor Pursuits: Their Causes and Cures (Jed Williamson); (2) ACCT Standards: What Do You Need to Know? (Sylvia Dresser); (3) Action Therapy: Moving from Passive to Proactive (Danie Beaulieu); (4) Adventure Therapy Supervision: Models and Application (Mark Gillen); (5) Approaching and Using Culture in Outdoor Education Research and Practice (Nina S. Roberts); (6) Assessing and Learning From an Experiential Application Process (Zabe MacEachren); (7) Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Your Ability to Serve the Corporate Client (Earl Davis and Andre Darger); (8) Bringing Learning to Life: Experiential Approaches with Psycho-Educational Groups (Bonnie Dyck and Jackie Cupples); (9) Building a Body of Knowledge (Pete Allison and Alan Ewert); (10) Building Resiliency among Adolescents with Substance Abuse Problems (Eddie Hill); (11) Connecting Youth to Nature and Culturally Diverse Communities (Annie Jonas); (12) Cultural Change in Our Schools: Is It Possible? (Laurie Frank and D.D. Sturdevant); (13) Deepening the Metaphor (Cheryl Willcocks); (14) Developing Effective Interventions in Adventure Therapy (Sandra L. Newes and Sean Hoyer); (15) Dewey's Principals of Interaction and Continuity Are Alive and Well in 4-H (Richard P. Enfield and Rebecca L. Carver); (16) Facilitating Your Staff Toward Peak Performance: Charting New Possibilities (Marc B. Levy); (17) Facilitation on the Edge: An Experiential Exploration of the Double Black Diamond Model (Scott Bandoroff and Christian Itin); (18) Fun in the Workplace: Theory to Practice (Don Taylor and Ezra Holland); (19) Games and Activities for Teaching Tolerance and Diversity (Marilyn Levin); (20) Games for Change, Bringing Spirituality into the Process (Lisa Prosser-Dodds); (21) Hot Topics: Wilderness Medicine Issues in Program Management (John Jacobs and Deb Ajango); (22) Leading from the Inside Out: Becoming a Self-Aware Leader (Betty Martin-Lewis); (23) Let's Talk Journaling! (Timothy S. O'Connell and Janet E. Dyment); (24) Making the Family Connection: Use of Initiatives with Families (D. Maurie Lung and Melissa Meyer); (25) Modified Adventure: Facilitating Adventure Activities with Special Needs At-Risk Youth (Michael Young and Carolyn Romaon); (26) More Lessons from the Couch (Dene Berman and Mark Gillen); (27) Murder by Numbers: Educational Reform and the Biospheric Number (Jay W. Roberts); (28) New Tips, Tools, and Tricks in Wilderness Medicine (Shana Lee Tarter); (29) Preventing Paddling Accidents and Fatalities (Laurie Gullion); (30) Processing Tools Galore! (Michelle Cummings and Jennifer Stanchfield); (31) Raccoon's Medicine (Tom Smith); (32) Rites of Passage: A Historical and Future Perspective (Dennis Call); (33) Sixth Annual Supervision in Adventure Therapy: Bring Your Best and Worst Cases to an Active, Experiential Brainstorm (Michael A. Gass and L Gillis); (34) Third Annual: Emergency Response Drills for Experiential Education Programs (Greg Friese); and (35) Using Adventure Education to Fulfill Content Standards in Physical Education (Bruce Martin). (Individual papers contain references.)