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A big picture: connectedness between outdoor education, landscape & political reality in Australia

by Robbo Bennetts
first published as the "Viewpoint" editorial piece in the Australian journal of outdoor education, Volume 7, No 2, 2003

 

I want to look at is the theme of connectedness in outdoor education. Connectedness is easy enough to conceptualise as a notion - in the way, for example, that chaos theorists famously connect the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings in the Amazon rainforest with tsunamis in Japan. We can imagine water droplets connecting all parts of the globe by recycling themselves in perpetuity. We can imagine being connected to woolly mammoths or dinosaurs in the sense that chemical particles in our bodies may once have been the stuff of those creatures.