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Outward Bound USA (OBUSA) is a non-profit organization providing experiential education in the United States through a network of regional schools, especially in wilderness settings. Outward Bound counts among its desired outcomes the development of self-awareness, self-confidence, leadership skills, environmental and social responsibility.
The Outward Bound Trust is an educational charity established in 1946 to operate the schools in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] Separate organisations operate the schools in each of the other countries in which Outward Bound operates. [4] Outward Bound helped to shape the U.S. Peace Corps and numerous other outdoor adventure programs. [5]
James Martin Hogan is primarily known as co-founder of the worldwide Outward Bound movement of outdoor adventure education schools, along with Kurt Hahn and Lawrence Durning Holt, having been the first warden of the sea school - the first Outward Bound school - established in Aberdyfi, Wales by Holt to train crews of his Blue Funnel Line.
Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk, Report # 59. Capital City Public Charter School; Expeditionary Learning - Design Principles; Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound Archived 2014-09-15 at the Wayback Machine; Herszenhorn, David M., March 20, 2006. "A New York School That Teaches Teamwork by Camping". The ...
An 18-day [3] wilderness experience conducted by Outward Bound where each person learns to adapt to a new environment, makes friends and gains self-confidence. (3) 9-week unpaid internships chosen from 200 possibilities in business, government, social service, charitable organizations, etc.
Outward Bound engaged heavily in research throughout the 1980s and 1990s to design an evaluation procedure that would accurately measure the impact their courses have on participants. Work conducted by James Neill and Garry Richards, especially the Life Effectiveness Questionnaire (LEQ), is a leading tool for the Australian outdoor industry but ...
[2] Like other Outward Bound International member organisations, its educational philosophy is derived from the work of German educator Kurt Hahn. Its motto is a favourite saying of his, "plus est en vous" ("there is more in you"). [3] The school is located in Anakiwa. Its governing body, Outward Bound Trust New Zealand, operates from Auckland.
Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy album), 1960; Outward Bound (Sonny Landreth album), 1992; Outward Bound, a 1966 album by Tom Paxton; Outward Bound, a 1999 novel by James P. Hogan; Outward bound, a nautical term for a ship leaving a port and heading to the open sea; The Outward Bound, a 1912 painting by Frederick Cayley Robinson, depicting RMS Titanic