Lecture 4, REC 215: Outdoor Recreation & Education. 2-hour class included some lecture, with mostly group work and discussion, as well as written reflection assessing the application and synthesis of readings and in-class discussion.

1. Leadership Theory & Practice in the Outdoors REC 215: Outdoor Recreation & Education Summer 2009 Janene Giuseffi, Instructor

2. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Robert F. Kennedy

10. Continuum of Leadership Styles

12. Situational Leadership Theory

14. Walsh & Gollins’ Outward Bound Process Model A Learner Prescribed physical environment Prescribed social environment Characteristic set of problem-solving tasks State of adaptive dissonance Mastery or competence Reorganization of the meaning and direction of the experience The learner continues to be oriented toward living and learning

15. Imagine yourself on a 30-day wilderness expedition with an autocratic leader. What kind of behavior would you expect this leader to exhibit? What would the group experience and learning be like compared to a democratic or abdicratic leader?