Horizons: past issues

Horizons 47 (Autumn 2009)

• A View From.... Diversity - by Heather Crawford
• GreenScene
  Regular feature in Horizons - Edited by Ken Ogilvie
• Tools of the Trade
  Dancing on Moving Ground pt2: Developing Self-awareness - by Sue Orton
• Expeditions
  Walk on the Wild Side - by Amanda West
• Outdoor Educcation
  Some Thoughts on Getting Youngsters out of the Classroom - by Richard Simpson
• Health and Safety
  Juggling with Fire: Whose Risk Assessment is it Anyway - by Dave Hopwood
• Spirituality
  Time for Reconnection - by Roger Orgill with Dan Whittaker
  And What is good, Phaedrus - by Ken Zetie
• Professional Matters
  Mountain Leader Training - by Rachael Hinchcliffe
  

 

Horizons 46 (Summer 2009)

• A View From.... Trophy Hunting - by Heather Crawford
• GreenScene
  Regular feature in Horizons - Edited by Ken Ogilvie
• Outdoor Education & Field Studies
  Forest school and Learning outside the classroom - by John Cree
• Health & Safety
  Belay if you will... or, how to spot lemons and be a swan rather than a turkey in climbing related activities - by David Crossland, Anne Salisbury, Marcus Bailie
• Lessons learned from management failings at a climbing wall - by the Lessons Learned Group
• Tools of the Trade
  John Adair Revisited - by Bob Larcher
• Professional Development
  Making the leap from outdoor instructor to classroom teaching and back again - by Glen Probert
• Professional Matters
  Flying the flag - by David Harvey
  How to write an outdoor CV - by Sam Moore
• GEARtalk - gear feature
  Our GEARtalk feature - by John Traynor
• Professional Insight
  The Heart of Bushcraft - by Dave Watson
• Expeditioning
  In the Footsteps of our Ancestors - by John Raven
• History of Outdoor Learning
  Game and Play - by Ivo Jirásek, Andrew Martin & Ivana Turcová

 

Horizons 45 (Spring 2009)

• A View From.... Heroes - by Heather Crawford
• GreenScene - Regular feature in Horizons - Edited by Ken Ogilvie
• Outdoor Education & Field Studies - How Can OL Programmes Best Link to and Support Student’s School Based Learning - by Simon Willis
• Health & Safety - Lessons from a Short Roping Incident - by the Lessons Learned Group
• Tools of the Trade - Dancing on Moving Ground - by Sue Orton
• Development Training - Developing & Measuring increases in Gumption, Moral Fibre & the Building of Character - by John Weinstock
• GEARtalk - gear feature - Our GEARtalk feature - by John Traynor
• Professional Insight - The Heart of Bushcraft - by Dave Watson
• Expeditioning - In the Footsteps of our Ancestors - by John Raven
• History of Outdoor Learning - Game and Play - by Ivo Jirásek, Andrew Martin & Ivana Turcová
• Insight - Social Forestry: Experience for a Lifetime in the Woods - Sarah Blackwell and Kenny Comain

 

Horizons 44 (Winter 2008)

• A View From...
  Exploring a Spiritual Understanding - Mike Fawcett 
  
• GreenScene
  A New feature in Horizons - Edited by Ken Ogilvie
• Outdoor Education & Field Studies
  Coming of Age for Outdoor Learning - by Geoff Cooper
• Outdoor Learning in South African Schools - by Sarah and Loz Colyer
• Health & Safety
  Lessons from Managed Caving Incidents - by the Lessons Learned Group
• Tools of the Trade
  Excluded and Challenging, but Able to Learn - by Roger Hopper
• Outdoor Education & Development Training
  Adventure Education: Junk Food or Healthy Diet - by David Crossland
• GEARtalk - gear feature
  Our GEARtalk feature - by John Traynor
• Professional Matters
  Bullying - by Heather Crawford
• Reflections
  The Prints we Leave - by Geoff Cooper

 

Horizons 43 (Autumn 2008)

• Professional Insight
  - The Language of Change - by Marcus Bailie      
• Youth Development Training
  - Airborne Initiative: too many people to satisfy - by Peter Barnes & Kate Stewart
• Outdoor Education & Field Studies
  - Every Child Matter: Part 2 - by Lucy Maynard
  - Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge System - by Karen Frith
  - Applying Meta-Analysis to Czech Outdoor Research
  - by Dusan Bartinik, Jan Neuman & Andy Martin
• Health & Safety
  - Lessons Learned from a Mountain Biking Incident - by the Lessons Learned Group
• Expeditioning
  - Grow Your Own - by Neil Hapgood
• Tools of the Trade
  - Groupthink - by Bob Larcher
• GEARtalk - first gear feature
  - Our first GEARtalk feature - by John Traynor
• Professional Matters
  - Badging Adventure Safety and Quality: A report on work in progress - by Bob Barton & Martin Hudson
• Reflections
  - Free CPD or Life Lessons from your pet by David Crossland

 

Horizons 42 (Summer 2008)

• Professional Insight
  - Hidden Messages - Teaching Fear
  - Bet Your Life We Can! Do we mean Risk or do we mean Challenge?      

• Outdoor Education & Field Studies
  - Going Global Outdoors - Next Step
  - Trips within Trips: A Russian Doll Approach to Residentials
• Professional Development
  - Doing APIOL in the Remotest World Capital
• Environment & Sustainability
  - A Totally New Perspective on the Universe
• Youth Development Training
  - Rites of Passage and Todays Modern Youth
• Tools of the Trade
  - Reflections on Leadership: Covey, Dilts and Nature
  - Helping to Include Maths in Outdoor Education
• Organisation Profile
  The National Skills Academy - Sport and Active Leisure

Horizons 41 (Spring 2008)

• Professional Matters
  - Challenging Behaviour in an Outdoor Environment
  - Ceud Mile Failte: Access to the Great Outdoors in Scotland. Part 1      
  - Outdoor Education & Field Studies
  - Bee Watching
• Professional Development
  - On the Back Foot: in which we aim to re-affirm our enlightenment values despite being temporarily in an uncomfortable position
  - RPIOL, APIOL, LPIOL - What DOES it all Mean?
• Sport & Recreation
  - The Climbing Wall Award
• Environment & Sustainability
  - On Growing Potatoes and Outdoor Education
  - What’s that Moving Across the Sky
• Youth Work & Development Training
  -Boys to Men 
• Development Training & HE
  - In the Stretch Zone
• Heatlh & Safety
  - Lessons Learned: A Zipwire Incident
• Professional Insight
  - The View From... Bereavement

Horizons 40 (Winter 2007)

• Professional Matters
  - Troubled & Troublesome Youth: A Growing Problem?
  - All Change, No Change, Some Change       
• Tools of the Trade
  - Developmental Outdoor Learning Model
  
• Spirituality
  - The View From... Hug a Hoodie
  
• Outdoor Education
  - Being in Nature - Summer Camp, but not as we know it
• Environment & Sustainability
  - Going Global in the Outdoors
  - Oh Goodie - the Nights are Drawing in
• History of Outdoor Learning
  - Once More into the Tarn Dear Friends
• Heatlh & Safety
  - We are about Saving Lives, Not Stopping Living - HSE statement
  - Some Safety Tips for Open Boats on Moving Water
• Expedititioning
  Individual Liberty and Social Order on Expeditions
• News and Updates
  - Report on the Southern IOL Conference
  - News Snippets
  - FINAL WORD - A Poem for Today

Horizons 39 (Autumn 2007)

• Professional Matters
  - Beyond the Nanny State - by Marcus Bailie
• Tools of the Trade
  - Using the Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic (VAK) Model to Help Our Students -  by Kim Bull
• Spirituality
  - The View From... Obsession: or... why do we shy away from reflection? - by Heather Crawford
• Outdoor Education
  - Every Child Matters - by Lucy Maynard
• Sport & Recreation
  - Hit the Surf! - by Amy Caldwell
• Professional Development
  - Is my Navigation Good Enough - by Nigel Williams
• Heatlh & Safety
  - Lessons Learned by a Flash Flood ... - by the Lessons Learned Group
• Activity Ideas
  - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - by Stuart Lynn
• Development Training
  - Outreach Work - Adding Value to a Residential - by Annabel Kent
• Expeditioning
  - A Testing Time for Mind and Body - by Ann Fuchs
• Team Development
  - What Makes a Team Tick? - by Bob Larcher
• News and Updates
  - Report on the National IOL Conference
  - News Snippets
  - New books
  - FINAL WORD - Knots

Horizons 38 (Summer 2007)

• Professional Matters
  - Leadership - the Only Safe Ship in a Storm - by Karen Brush
• Tools of the Trade
  - Group Development Models: A Comparison -  by Bob Larcher
  - NLP Coaching - Tuning in to the Students’ Convention - by Kim Bull
  - Windows on the World.. and into OE - by Karen Stuart
• Spirituality
  - The View from Spirituality - by Heather Crawford
• Outdoor Education
  The Potential for Outdoor Learning - PLUS - Outdoor Connections Report - by Dave Spence
• Sport & Recreation
  - Relocation Strategies - by Nigel Williams
  Outfitting a Canoe for Journeying - by Nancy Brooks
• Curriculum
  - Once upon a Time: Early Years OL - by Kathryn Solly
• Heatlh & Safety
  - Better Drowned than Duffers... - by David Crossland
• News and Updates
  - Report on the National IOL Conference
  - News Snippets
  - FINAL WORD - Knots

Issue 37 (Spring 2007)

• Professional Matters
  - The View From... What Price Cotton Wool? by Heather CrawfordTools of the Trade
  - Up and Down the Ladder of Inference -  by Bob Larcher
• Expeditioning
  - Paul’s Journey: A Students Tale - by Paul Monahan
• Outdoor Education
  - On a Hot Summer night  - by David Crossland
  - Activity Centres or Outdoor Education Centres? by Geoff Cooper
  - Adventure Racing for Schools - by Andy Scrutton
• Sport & Recreation
  - The Teaching of Navigation Skills: Time for a Review?  by Nigel Williams
• Development Training
  - Does my Bum Look Big in This? - by Karen Stuart
• Professional Development
  - The Walking Group Leader Award - by Mal Creasey
• News and Updates
  - Report on the Northern Region IOL Conference
  - IOL Presence at the Palace of Westminster
  - New Books and Gear
  
• FINAL WORD - Where are you taking the kids this summer? by Howie Crook

Issue 36 (Winter 2006)

•   Outdoor Education & Field Studies                 
  - The View From... Leave no Child Inside - by Heather Crawford
•   Outdoor Education                   
  - How Unicorns Learn - by Dust Kunkell
• Tools of the Trade
  - Recycling or Reviewing  - by Justin Lowe
  - Logical Levels - by Elspeth Mason
  
• Health & Safety
  - Lessons Learned - When Rafted Canoeing Goes Wrong -  by the Lessons Learned Group
  - Risk Assessment, Safety and All That..  - by Marcus Bailie
• Expeditioning
  - Bringing Inspiration in from the Cold: Four Teachers Expedition to Antarctica - by Ann Fuchs
• Sport & Recreation
  - Beyond Safe Leadership... Getting Fluffy – by Gareth Field
• Theory into Practice
  - From Transfer to Reconstruction: The Process of Deploying Learning Elsewhere - by Wil Payne and Jon Owen
  - Phase Transitions and the Perception of Risk - by Paul Watts
• Development Training
  - Welcome to Outdoorsland - Bill Krowel

Issue 35 (Autumn 2006)

• Outdoor Education & Field Studies
  - Broad Futures: Providing Support to Learning and Sustainability in the Broads
• Spirituality
  - The Spiritual Journey of Floating Stone
• Conservation & Sustainability                     
  - The Wider View: Environment, Sustainability and the Outdoors
• Personal Development
  - Perls, Perspective and the Pot
• Sport & Recreation
  - Navigating Confidently
• Health & Safety
  - Health & Safety for Managers
• Professional Matters
  - The View From... Gaining Recognition
  - Ballpark and Benchmarks - APIOL 
  - Children’s Trusts and Outdoor Learning

Issue 34 (Summer 2006)

• Health and Safety
  - Instructor Died Preparing Zip Wire Session
  - Cycle of Competence: Model for Risk Assessment in
  the Outdoors
• Professional Matters
  - An Employee Perspective (click here to view this article as a PDF)
  - How Big is the Outdoor Sector
• Activity Ideas
  - Using Friction Fire Lighting with Groups
  - Adding Environmental Value
• Spirituality
  - Hell on Earth or a Glimpse of Heaven
• Outdoor Education and Field Studies
  - Lost at Sea: OE and Enterprise Skills
  - Serendipity and Co-learning in OE
• Conservation
  - Engagement or Avoidance 
  - Sustainable School Consultation 
• Tools of the Trade
  - Questions
• Last page - Lunacy or Lunatics: Mat's Moonlit
  Adventures

Issue 33 (Spring 2006)

• Health & Recreation
  The Outdoors for Health
• Development Training
  - Creative Course Design: Reflection on a Trainers’ Workshop 
• Professional Matters
  - Out There and Active: Asthma UK Campaign - by Patrick Ladbury
• Activity Ideas - A Pictorial Feature              
  - Journey Sticks illustrations
• Health & Safety
  - Groups and Peer Belaying
• Spirituality
  - Meaningful Silence (click here to view this article as a PDF)
• Outdoor Education & Field Studies
  - Disconnected Children (click here to view this article as a PDF)
  
• Sport & Recreation
  - Search and Rescue – by Karen-Jane Brush
  - Global Positioning Systems (GPS): Boy’s Toy’s or Serious Navigation Aid?
• Professional Matters
  - Staff in the Field of Outdoor Education
  - Careers in the Outdoors
  

Issue 32 (Winter 2005)

• Outdoor Education and Field Studies
  - Making Environmental Education Meaningful
  - Aiming Higher in Pursuit of Excellence
• Professional Development
  - Tools of the Trade
  - Kit I Couldn't Live Without!
• Professional Matters
  - Maturation of the Field
• Medical Matters
  - Chill Out
• Sustainability and Conservation
  - Uncorking the Bottle
  - Coasteering in Wales
• Spirituality
  - Extending the Spiritual Journey
• Horizons Quiz
  - Can you identify these naked trees? (click here to view this article as a PDF)

Issue 31 (Autumn 2005)

• Current Initiatives in Education - Strengthen the position of outdoor learning
• Outdoor Education and Field Studies
  - Going global in the outdoors
  - If you go down to the woods today
• Professional Development
  - Talking shop: teamwork and communication
  - Joining the dots
• Professional Matters
  - Working together in Europe
  - First aid: what's in it for you?
  - APIOL: more than a name
• Tools of the Trade - Johari window follow-up
• Environment and Conservation - Red alert!
• Exploration and expeditioning - Kayaking the Baltic Archipelago

Issue 30 (Summer 2005)

• Expedition and Adventure
  - Students to the Ends of the Earth
  - Glen Almond College Expedition
• Outdoor Education and Field Studies - The Value of Fieldwork Today
• Professional Matters - APIOL Out and About
• Environment and Conservation - Caving with Groups and Conservation
• Youth Development and Development Training - The Johari Window
• The History of Outdoor Learning - Mabel's Legacy

Issue 29 (Spring 2005)

• Development Training and Leadership - Any Questions
• Out and About - Owls of the British Isles
• Outdoor Education and Field Studies - Spreading the Word in Iran
  - A GCSE in Woodland Survival Skills
  - The Value of Outdoor Learning for Schools
• Professional Matters - The Accident Chain
  - Competent People versus Copious Paper
  - Junior Orienteering and Awards for All
• Soapbox - Foul Play? - The Insurance Adventure
• Sport and Recreation - In Terrain that Walking Routes Avoid: the Joys of Mountaineering Begin
• Youth Development and Management Training - Support and Challenge: More than a Working Model

Issue 28 (Winter 2004)

• Professional Matters - DDA and all that...
• Outdoor Education and Field Studies - Is Outdoor Education the 'Real Thing'?
• Development Training and Leadership - Differences Between People and a Problem Solving Model
• Expedition, Exploration and Adventure - Sail for Independence Project
• Environmental Matters - 20 Years of Raising Environmental Awareness
• Activity Ideas - reviewing ropes courses
• Sport and Recreation - Mountain Biking... a Relic of the Past or the Key to the Future
• Spirituality and Healing - Gross National Happiness
• Out and About - It was wet; we took a boat
• Soapbox - Foul Play? - The Insurance Adventure

Issue 27 (Autumn 2004)

• Professional Matters - near misses, boundaries and responsibilities
• Outdoor Education and Field Studies - Kurt Hahn and Round Square
• Development Training and Leadership - the role of OMD in the management development process
• Personal and Professional Development - Lucy on the edge: language without limits
• Expedition, Exploration and Adventure - Duke of Edinburgh's Award horse ventures
• Activity Ideas - junk percussion; art, people and play; people in action
• Sport and Recreation - wet feet, soul intact
• Putting Something Back - John Muir Award

Issue 26 (Summer 2004)

• Personal Growth - firefighting and leadership
• Education and Field Studies - from outdoor learning to Stone Age film
• Development Training and Leadership - helping people to achieve results
• Professional Matters - what is Access for All?
• Professional Matters - APIOL update
• Sport and Recreation - canoe tarps
• Activity Ideas - environmental art; icebreakers, reviewing and educating aliens
• Working at Heights regulations update
• Expedition and Adventure

Issue 25 (Spring 2004)

• Corporate Killing - the Future
• APIOL - Helping your Professional Development in 2004
• How School Groups benefit from Outdoor Experiences
• Equity and the Outdoor Professional
• So, what goes into an Outdoor Education Degree - and are we getting it right?
• Degrees in the 'Outdoors'! What's the purpose, what's the point? The Finnish Project
• Let's think about Reflection
• Research and Practice in Outdoor Development Training: what about it?
• Ethics of Adventure

Issue 24 (Winter 2003)

• Lessons Learned from Stainforth Beck?
• But, when do they do their lessons? The 'Outdoor Classroom' at the Steiner South Devon School
• The Use of Outdoor Management Development
• Just Outdoors - Outdoor Education in the School Grounds
  Highlighting the work of Learning Through Landscapes which is the National School Grounds charity. They work with schools, organisations and individuals across the country to help them improve and develop their school grounds. Click here to download further information about LTL
• The Outdoors from a Czech Perspective
• Allegations - a risk worth taking
• Understanding Other People's Responses to Outdoor Activities - working with difference
• Connexions and Outdoor Development - supporting 16 and 18 year olds' transition to adult life
• What are we up to?

Issue 23 (Autumn 2003)

• Thinking Wide: Leadership, Outdoor Education and Development in Zambia
• Take my Breathe Away: why the outdoors may be an effective repository for spiritual development
• The Third Adventure Therapy Conference
• Inside and Outside: art and psychology at Schumacher College
• So...what do we teach anyway?
• Recipe for 'Respect'
• Are Youth Opportunities for Adventue Learning being Stiffled by the Law?
• Learning the Ropes: a SpeyGrian sailing tale
• Background to the SpeyGrian Initiative
• Safety on the Hills in Winter: avalanche risk - snow information
• The Outdoors, Naturally

Issue 22 (Summer 2003)

• Stop Making Sense: The Outdoors as Art; part 1
• In the Footsteps of nature: Nature Therapy as an Emerging Therapeutic Educational Model
• Therapeutic Applications of Adventure Activities
• The West Coast

Issue 21 (Spring 2003)

• Summer Activities: A beginners' guide
• Whose Journeys? Conference papers in new publication
• Karl Rohnke to visit the UK
• From the Peaks to the Plains - The Outdoors as a Repository of Spirituality
• Aggression and Violence in the Workplace
• Exploring the Five Stages of Group Formation using Adventure-based Activities
• Outdoor Experience as Artform
• Fancy a Career doing Therapy in the Outdoors?
• Adventure therapy: Expolring the healing potential of the outdoors
• Aerial Manoeuvres

Issue 20 (Winter 2002)

• Young Asian Women: experiences of the Summer Activities Initiative
• Is the Good Literature Forgotten Today? exploring where outdoor education ends and consumer training begins
• Evolution of a Profession: the importance of education and good practice within Outward Bound
• Women's Knees: current first aid practice from Wilderness Medical Associates (USA)
• Duty of Care - implications for teachers/instructors/leaders and other employees working outside the main stream educational arena
• Protection from False Allegations
• If GPS Fails, What Should We Use?

Issue 19 (Autumn 2002)

• Still Building Rafts, Juggling Balls and Driving Tanks?
• The Thrill of Adventure: Worth a few Calculated Risks? outdoor liability issues
• AALA Outdoor Liability issues comment
• Discovery Education: a definition
• It's 2pm on a Friday Afternoon...avoiding accusations of abuse
• Health and Safety for Pupils on Educational Visits:HASPEV a full review of DfES documents from 1998-present day
• Inspiration

Issue 18 (Summer 2002)

• Risk and Adventure Education
• Getaway Girls
• Reviewing with Ropes
• Learners and Learning
• Whose Journeys? Where and Why? Conference Report
• Safeguarding Opportunities for Young People Conference Report
• Facilitators' Challenges and Critical Success Factors in working with SAI Groups
• A Qualitative Investigation into the Summer Activities Initiative

Issue 17 (Spring 2002)

• Discussion...on the Role and Future of Outdoor Degree Courses
• Doing Reflective Research - What's in it for those working in the field?
• Pull-out - 8 pages on "Racoon Circles"
• Summer Activities Initiative and the 2001 Pilots
• Practice Building your own Abseil Tree
• Social Support helps People Grow
• Self-esteem: What it is, why it is important and implications for outdoor education
• The Indiduation Process and the Ascent of Helvellyn

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