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Kurt Hahn (Germany; UK) founder of Outward Bound, diagnosed
several ills of modern
youth and society, and developed corresponding educational antidotes
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Colin Mortlock's adventure paradigm
(UK) emphasizes the subjective nature of adventure experience and champions the
value of exposing people to frontier adventure
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Jasper Hunt (USA) identified and articulated many classic ethical dilemmas that
occur in the design and delivery of outdoor education programs.
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Simon
Priest and Mike Gass (Canada; USA) emphasized the importance of effective
leadership in outdoor education programs, particularly with regard to
intentional use of adventure programming activities and different types of
facilitation techniques
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Steve Bowles (Europe) has championed post-modernist critiques of "production
style" thinking about outdoor education, arguing for the need for sociological,
political, deconstructionist examination of the underlying values and intents of
outdoor education
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Scott Wurdinger (USA) has attempted to uncover and organise for study many of
the underlying assumptions and philosophical propositions used in adventure
programming.
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Peter Martin (Australia) has mused on, studied, researched and elucidated
further the depth of potential relations between people and places through
outdoor education.
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Andrew Brookes (Australia) has investigated through diverse reading, close
analysis, and careful consideration some of the many unchallenged assumptions
and issues in outdoor education.