The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This Handbook serves as a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of women in outdoor learning environments (OLEs). Women choose to participate actively in outdoors careers, many believing the profession is a level playing field and that it offers alternatives to traditional sporting activities. They enter outdoor learning primarily on the strength of their enthusiasm for leading and teaching in natural environments and assume the field is inclusive, rewarding excellence regardless of age, gender, socioeconomic status, disability, or ethnicity. However, both research and collective experiences in OLEs suggest that many women feel invisible, relegated, marginalized, and undervalued. In response to this marginalization, this Handbook celebrates the richness of knowledge and practices of women practitioners in OLEs. Women scholars and practitioners from numerous fields, such as experiential outdoor education, adventure education, adventure therapy, and gender studies, explore the implications of their research and practice using poignant examples within their own disciplines. These insights emerge from similar life experiences as women and outdoor leaders in the 1970s to the present. Social inequalities still abound in OLEs, and the Handbook ensures that the contributions of women are highlighted as well as the work that needs to be done to make these spaces inclusive. Global in perspective and capacious in content, this one-stop volume is an indispensable reference resource for a diverse range of academics, including students and researchers in the fields of education, psychology, sociology, gender studies, geography, and environment studies, as well as the many outdoors fields.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
Release date:	May 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Tonia Gray • Denise Mitten
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 59mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	924
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-53549-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Books > Social sciences > Education > Careers guidance > Industrial or vocational training Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	3-319-53549-8
Barcode:	9783319535494

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