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Ethical Issues in Experiential Education
Book by Hunt, Jasper S.
137 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1993
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June 11, 2018
If you work in the outdoor/experiential world, I don't think this is a necessary read, but it's a good one. The book covers issues of Risk, Consent, Deception, Secrecy, Captivity, Sex, Environment, Individual rights & Group rights, political stances, and Paternalism that one can encounter while leading an Outdoor/experiential learning course. If you have ever been a camp counsellor or climbing instructor, or even if you've even just been on a high ropes course or rock wall, those are the kinds of experiences this book covers the ethics of.
I say it's not necessary because I think if you are interested enough in experiential education to read this book, you probably have at least a couple seasons of working in the field and nothing in this book is so revolutionary that it should be required reading. Many of the ethical dillemas and potential solutions presented are ones you have probably already encountered in one form or another and have had to deal with. They are all fairly common issues. And in the moment, you probably made the decision that felt right and learned from it.
It is cool though to see the foundation of where that feeling of "what's right" comes from, all the way down to the ethical perspectives of the consequentialist and the nonconsequentialist. Hunt does a very good Layman's explanation of each of the philosophical issues and arguments behind perspectives and he keeps things interesting by giving specific examples and then continually relating the theory back to those examples.
I borrow this book from the library after stumbling upon it during a research paper. And being that experiential education is a field I am looking at potentially working in, I might just purchase a copy to occasionally revisit.
I say it's not necessary because I think if you are interested enough in experiential education to read this book, you probably have at least a couple seasons of working in the field and nothing in this book is so revolutionary that it should be required reading. Many of the ethical dillemas and potential solutions presented are ones you have probably already encountered in one form or another and have had to deal with. They are all fairly common issues. And in the moment, you probably made the decision that felt right and learned from it.
It is cool though to see the foundation of where that feeling of "what's right" comes from, all the way down to the ethical perspectives of the consequentialist and the nonconsequentialist. Hunt does a very good Layman's explanation of each of the philosophical issues and arguments behind perspectives and he keeps things interesting by giving specific examples and then continually relating the theory back to those examples.
I borrow this book from the library after stumbling upon it during a research paper. And being that experiential education is a field I am looking at potentially working in, I might just purchase a copy to occasionally revisit.
September 5, 2008
Well the title of this book on Goodread is WRONG. It's EXPERIENTIAL education, NOT experiMental education..jesus. Anyway, Jasper Hunt is brilliant. This is a great, easily-accessible look at ethics in the world of ExEd. Loved it.
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