Peer-Reviewed Journals
in Outdoor Education

James Neill
Last updated:
25 Nov 2007

Outdoor Education Journals

There is no "international outdoor education journal". Each of the journals listed below attempts in some ways to address international perspectives, but each also reflects a regional bias.

The major US-based, peer-reviewed experiential and adventure education journal (with international scope)
Published three times per year by the Association for Experiential Education since 1978.
Print run ~2000.
There are several sources of information about the journal, plus various ways to access the articles.
JEE at Lakehead University
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JEE on AEE (old) (new)
General information, subscriptions, reprints, etc.
- Subscriptions (old) (new)
  ~US$60 per year = ~$20 per issue
- Reprints via AEE (old) (new)
  ~US$25 per issue or $5-$10 per article via hard-copy.
Abbreviated abstracts since 1978 via ERIC
Full articles from 1988 via Uncover Plus, Ingenta
~US$12 per article via fax.
On-line full-text articles from 2001 via EBSCO
Free to institutional subscribers to EBSCO-Host's Academic Search Premier

The major Australian-Pacific-based peer-reviewed outdoor education journal (with international scope)
Published twice/year by the Australian Outdoor Education Council since 1995.
Print run ~800.
Subscriptions
~US$35 per year = ~$18 per issue
Subscription access via:
- ACER, Proquest, Gale
Index of past articles

The major British-European (with international scope) peer-reviewed outdoor education journal
Online contents (index of previous issues)
- 2000-present, 2 issues/year
- Online sample (5(2); requires free registration).
- Online subscription:
  - ~US$45 for 2 issues/year = ~$23 per issue
  - Electronic copies of individual articles can also be purchased.
- Institutional subscriptions
About:
- JAEOL page at IOL
- Journal details
- Officially sponsored by the Institute for Outdoor Learning since it was resurrected in 2000.
- Since 2007 it has been published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis).
- Print run ~700.
- Aims/Scope:
  - Promotes dialogue, research, thinking, understanding, teaching and practice in the field of adventure education and outdoor learning.
  - Publishes original papers that encourage a wider appreciation of the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary components of adventure education and outdoor learning.
  - International review board.

An online archival project by Indiana University which has made available approximately 100 outdoor education and camping articles published in the Bradford Papers since the late 1980s.

Beames, S. (2003). Academic journals in the outdoor industry. The Outdoor Network, Spring, 14(2), 28.