| NCJ Number: |
123077  |
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| Title: |
Experiential Education and Corrections: Teaching Through Action |
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| Journal: |
Corrections Today Volume:51 Issue:5 Dated:(August 1989) Pages:38,39,42 |
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| Author(s): |
P Paugh; L Mixdorf |
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| Date Published: |
1989 |
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| Page Count: |
4 |
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| Type: |
Program Description (Demonstrative) |
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| Format: |
Article |
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| Language: |
English |
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| Country: |
United States of America |
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| Annotation: |
Experiential education that provides juveniles active, adaptive, and competitive challenges is more likely to produce behavioral change than cognitive and analytical programs. |
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| Abstract: |
Experiential programs provide action-oriented tasks that initially seem impossible but are manageable when common sense and skill are applied to them. Challenges -- whether adaptive, competitive, or a combination of the two -- work if they are active and require participants to become involved; concrete and give them something tangible with which to wrestle; social and require peers to interact and solve problems with one another; incremental and give them a growing sense of mastery; manageable and give them problems that can be solved with the right personal tools; and consequential and help them to understand the connection between cause and effect. Optimally, the group should decide how problems will be solved, develop its own internal structure, choose a leader, and organize the execution of tasks. Such a process teaches social skills and creates peer group bonding. |
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| Main Term(s): |
Juvenile correctional programs |
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| Index Term(s): |
Juvenile rehabilitation; Wilderness programs |
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