Real World Learning: a critical analysis

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Authors	ČINČERA Jan
Year of publication	2015
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Envigogika
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Web	http://envigogika.cuni.cz/index.php/Envigogika/article/view/473/611
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/18023061.473
Field	Pedagogy and education
Keywords	Outdoor education; environmental education; quality; values; behavior change
Description	This paper analyzes the so called “Hand model”, invented as a part of the international The Real World learning project. The aim of the model was to provide guidance for outdoor environmental education programs. It is suggested in the analysis that the model suffers from inconsistency in its efforts to establish quality criteria consistent with self-directed, emancipatory learning, and its instrumental ambition to promote behavioral change. On the other hand, the model provides a new point of view on outdoor environmental education programs, namely on the values and frames communicated by the programs.