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-Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education

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Published four times a year, Pathways is the voice of outdoor education in Ontario. Each year finds the prose, poetry and art of some 70 individuals. Topics range from the philosophical to the practical, from elementary to post-secondary levels, and from urban to wilderness settings. Authors include both founding and new members as well as kindred spirits from elsewhere. We continue the practice of rotating the editorship of each issue within the editorial board.

We can only publish what we get. 

Please click here to find current guidelines for both authors and artists wishing to have their work published in Pathways. 

We are particularly interested in more “what can I do Monday morning” material. If you have a favourite outdoors activity, please send it to us. We welcome artwork and we will gladly consider a full range of materials related to outdoor education. We’ll take your contributions in any form and work with you to publish it. It you are already a COEO member, please refer to page 1 of each journal to contact any member of the Pathways Editorial Board for a submissions guideline and support. If you are not currently a COEO member but would like to submit something, please send us a message outlining your proposed contribution to: info@coeo.org

COEO is pleased to make the following back issues of Pathways available as downloadable pdf files.

We welcome you to use and distribute the information contained here, but ask that in all cases you ensure the original source is acknowledged and properly credited.

Volume 14 Number 1: This issue is built around the theme " Voices from Outside Our Profession: Why Outdoor Education Really Matters."  Contributors recall the impact of childhood experiences in outdoor education. Authors are from all over country, as well as from a variety of public and private sector professions.

Volume 14 Number 3: This issue has an international flavour. It explores Scandinavian approaches to the conceptualization of outdoor education, in particular, Friluftsliv.

Volume 14 Number 4: This issues highlights a persistent, successful and exciting niche for outdoor education in Ontario, namely, high school integrated programs, where the same group of students take a common curriculum of subjects together … and, in large part, through outdoor and experiential learning.

Volume 15 Number 1: This issue explores the topics of social difference and justice as they relate to outdoor education. It considers " how identities are lived in complex and unpredictable ways [in outdoor learning], and how educators may only ever partially understand the dynamics of their 'classroom' and the messy process of learning."

Volume 15 Number 3: The impact of technology on outdoor education: one need only think of all the new materials that comprise modern outdoor gear, not to mention the cell and satellite phones that often accompany outdoor trips. How do such ‘innovations’ influence student learning as well as engagement with others and the natural world?

Volume 14 Number 1
Volume 14 Number 4
Volume 15 Number 1
Volume 15 Number 3
Volume 16 Number 4