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    Learning 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...

    Eric Brymer, Robert D. Schweitzer in Advances in Health Sciences Education (2022)

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    Injuries 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...

    Francesco Feletti, Eric Brymer in BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilit… (2021)

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    Affordances in nature: Australian primary school children identify learning opportunities

    Vinathe Sharma-Brymer, Keith Davids, Eric Brymer, Derek Bland in Curriculum Perspectives (2018)

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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 ...

    Vinathe Sharma-Brymer, Eric Brymer in Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Educa… (2018)

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    Understanding 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...

    Tuomas Immonen, Eric Brymer, Dominic Orth, Keith Davids in Sports Medicine - Open (2017)

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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...

    Peter Clough, Susan Houge Mackenzie, Liz Mallabon, Eric Brymer in Sports Medicine (2016)

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    Designing Environments to Enhance Physical and Psychological Benefits of Physical Activity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    Eric Brymer, Keith Davids in Sports Medicine (2016)

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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...

    Keith Davids, Duarte Araújo, Eric Brymer in Sports Medicine (2016)

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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...

    Hsiao-Pu Yeh, Joseph Antony Stone, Sarah May Churchill in Sports Medicine (2016)

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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...

    Eric Brymer, Ian Renshaw in Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education (2010)

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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, ...

    Eric Brymer, Tonia Gray in Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education (2006)

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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...

    Eric Brymer in Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education (2002)