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Eric Brymer
English
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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...
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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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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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Phenomenology and Extreme Sports in Natural Landscapes
In the early 1900s, Husserl (1970) reminded us of the imperative to return to the Lebensweldt, or life-world. He was preoccupied with the crisis of Western science which alienated the experiencing-self from the w...
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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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Psychology and the Extreme Sport Experience
The term ‘extreme sports’ has become synonymous with a variety of nontraditional adventure experiences. Terminologies such as ‘whiz sports’, ‘free sports’, ‘adventure sports’, ‘lifestyle sports’, ‘action sport...
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An Ecological Dynamics Framework for the Acquisition of Perceptual–Motor Skills in Climbing
Uncertainty in extreme sports performance environments, like rock and ice climbing, provides considerable psycho-emotional and physiological demands which challenge the acquisition of perceptual–motor skills. ...
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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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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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Affordances in nature: Australian primary school children identify learning opportunities
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Facilitating Mental Health
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Flourishing and Eudaimonic Well-Being
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Outdoor and Environmental Education: Nature and Wellbeing
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Flourishing and Eudaimonic Well-Being
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Facilitating Mental Health
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Subjective Well-Being and Leisure
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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...
