It is created for young people to experience adventure in an 'educational way' within regulations. It is an opportunity to provide a meaningful outdoor education. Outdoor education is uniquely placed to offer structured opportunities for students to identify hazards, calculate the related risks and decide the significance of a risk in order to determine and implement the precautions necessary to eliminate and minimise risk. Students’ involvement in risk management makes them aware of potential harm and contributes towards their being able to take greater responsibility for their own and others’ safety.
The very idea of risk taking is to be avoided and the role of outdoor education could be to enable students to assess risk and then ‘eliminate or minimise’ it. We at Mango Tree Adventures believe that life is best approached with a spirit of adventure and that absolute safety is unachievable.
This spirit is present at our camp and recognised for high standands in wilderness education.
The benefits of outdoor education experiences; teachers, for example, often speak of the improvement they have in relationships with students following a trip. However, hard evidence showing that outdoor education has a demonstrable long-term effect on behaviour or educational achievement is harder to identify; this may be in part because of the difficulty involved in conducting studies which separate out the effects of outdoor education on meaningful outcomes.
Companies experience the same effects after absolving corporate programs and a greater team spirit is born.
There are several important trends and changing circumstances for outdoor education, including:
Climate change
Environment
Nature-deficit disorder
Physical fitness
Rationalization (sociology)
Risk aversion
Risk management
