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Open AccessLearning clinical skills: an ecological perspective
The pedagogy underpinning clinical psychology training is often reliant upon the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and the practice of skills. The dominant paradigm in the training of clinical psycholo...
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Open AccessInjuries and illnesses related to dinghy-sailing on hydrofoiling boats
Hydrofoil technology has changed sailing, significantly increasing its speed and resulting in spectacularity and mass media interest. Although high speed can expose participants to a risk of high-energy trauma...
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Affordances in nature: Australian primary school children identify learning opportunities
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Affordances guiding Forest School practice: the application of the ecological dynamics approach
Forest School focuses on child development underlining nature-connection and play pedagogy. Practitioners facilitate child-led learning through a deep observation approach. However, challenges and assumptions ...
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Open AccessUnderstanding Action and Adventure Sports Participation—An Ecological Dynamics Perspective
Previous research has considered action and adventure sports using a variety of associated terms and definitions which has led to confusing discourse and contradictory research findings. Traditional narratives...
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Adventurous Physical Activity Environments: A Mainstream Intervention for Mental Health
Adventurous physical activity has traditionally been considered the pastime of a small minority of people with deviant personalities or characteristics that compel them to voluntarily take great risks purely f...
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Designing Environments to Enhance Physical and Psychological Benefits of Physical Activity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
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Designing Affordances for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity and Exercise in Sedentary Individuals
Ideas in ecological dynamics have profound implications for designing environments that offer opportunities for physical activity (PA), exercise and play in sedentary individuals. They imply how exercise scien...
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Physical, Psychological and Emotional Benefits of Green Physical Activity: An Ecological Dynamics Perspective
Increasing evidence supports the multiple benefits to physical, psychological and emotional wellbeing of green physical activity, a topic of increasing interest in the past decade. Research has revealed a syne...
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An introduction to the constraints-led approach to learning in outdoor education
Participation in outdoor education is underpinned by a learner’s ability to acquire skills in activities such as canoeing, bushwalking and skiing and consequently the outdoor leader is often required to facili...
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Effective leadership: Transformational or transactional?
Theory and research in outdoor leadership is often based on studies undertaken in the 1980s, however, whilst such findings are valuable, it is interesting that leadership theory in other fields such as sport, ...
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Exploring Expedition Research Methodology: A Personal Reflection
Research into the human dynamics of expeditions is a potentially rewarding and fruitful area of study. However, the complex nature of expedition work presents the researcher with numerous challenges. This pape...