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2010 Autumn | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach

Introducing Urban College Students to Outdoors Education

Student(s):

Rhea Whitney

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

John Withey

Partner(s):

  • University of Washington

Faculty advisor(s):

Yoram Bauman, Program on the Environment, University of Washington

During my project, I assisted in teaching an environmental education course called “Humans and the Environment in the “Pacific Northwest Bioregion” to college students visiting from China and Japan. I was interested in studying how urban students with little exposure to natural environments react to them, how outdoors education enhances environmental education, and in what ways outdoors education can be made more effective. The outdoors experiential component to this class gave me the opportunity to find the answers to my questions first-hand.