Repertoire of practice: Reconceptualizing instructor competency in contemporary adventure education
Abstract
Historically, adventure educators have used the metaphor of hard and soft skills to understand their practice: hard skills representing technical competencies, and soft skills representing interpersonal competencies. In light of current research and in the face of increasingly complex varieties of adventure practice, the categorization of skills into “hard” or “soft” may obscure important aspects of experiential learning and limit the development of an effective pedagogy for adventure education. This paper interrogates the hard/soft metaphor from various perspectives and offers “repertoire of practice” (Wenger, 1998) as a possible framework to further discuss instruction and learning in contemporary adventure education. ‘What we have learned to see something as, becomes in turn, the guide to our outward practical activity’. (Wartofsky, 1979, p. 207)
Department
Kinesiology
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Journal Title
Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Seaman, J., and Coppens, A. (2006). Repertoire of practice: Reconceptualizing instructor competency in contemporary adventure education. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. 6(1), 25- 38. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14729670685200721