Our research is based on the publications and articles listed below. We appreciate that most visitors to this site won't have the time to read full-length articles, which are often available only in costly academic journals. For each article, we have published a short descriptive summary and the author's original abstract. Please feel to free to print and distribute these - they are not copyright protected. In due course we hope to publish links to legal open-access sources for as many of these articles as possible.
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We began by collecting all post-1990 literature concerning youth development expeditions. The following terms were used to conduct the searches: expedition, wilderness, youth development, science, adventure, fieldwork, and community development. The process was conducted in four phases.
Allison, P |
2000 |
Research from the Ground Up - Post-Expedition Adjustment |
Allison, P |
2001 |
School Trips and Youth Expeditions: Time for a United Front? |
Allison, P |
2005 |
Post-Expedition Adjustment - What Empirical Data Suggest? |
Allison, P & Beames, S |
2010 |
The Changing Geographies of Overseas Expeditions |
Allison, P & Higgins, P |
2002 |
Ethical Adventures: Can We Justify overseas youth expeditions in the name of education? |
Allison, P & Telford, J |
2005 |
Turbulent Times: Outdoor Education in Great Britain 1993 - 2003 |
Allison, P & Von Wald, K |
2010 |
Exploring values and personal and social development: learning through expeditions |
Andrews, K |
1999 |
The Wilderness Expedition as a Rite of Passage: Meaning and Process in Experiential Education |
Ashby, M |
1999 |
The Educational Role of Expeditions |
Beames, S |
2003 |
Overseas Youth Expeditions in Humberstone, B et al Ed. 'Whose Journeys? The Outdoors and Adventure as Social and Cultural Phenomena |
Beames, S |
2004a |
Overseas Youth Expeditions with Raleigh International: A rite of passage? |
Beames, S |
2004b |
Critical Elements of an Expedition Experience |
Beames, S |
2005 |
Expeditions and the Social Construction of the Self |
Bobilya A et al |
2009 |
Outcomes of a Spiritually Focussed Wilderness Orientation Programme |
Bryce, J |
1999 |
Expedition and Fieldwork Safeguarding Opportunities for Young People |
BSI |
2007 |
BS 8848 A specification for the provision of visits, fieldwork, expeditions, and adventurous activities outside the UK |
Cashel, C |
1994 |
Group Dynamics: Implications for Succesful Expeditions |
Ewert, A & Yoshino, A |
2007 |
A Preliminary Exploration of the Influence of Short-Term Adventure-Based Expeditions on Levels of Resilience |
Eys, M et al |
2008 |
Leadership Status Congruency and Cohesion in Outdoor Expedition Groups |
Greenaway, R |
1997 |
High Quality Adventure for All |
Greenaway, R |
1998 |
In Search of Respectable Adventure |
Jones, A |
2004 |
Review of Gap Year Provision |
Kennedy, A |
1992 |
The Expedition Experience as a Vehicle for Change in the Inner City |
Pike, E & Beames, S |
2007 |
A Critical Interactionist Analysis of 'Youth Development' Expeditions |
Potter, T |
1998 |
Human Dimensions of expeditions: deeply rooted, branching out |
Rea, T |
2006 |
"It's Not As If We've Been Teaching Them..." Reflective Thinking in the Outdoor Classroom |
Sheldon, R |
2009 |
Rallying Together: A Research Study of Raleigh's Work with Disadvantaged Young People |
Smith, M |
2008 |
Exploring a Changing World |
Stott, T & Hall, N |
2003 |
Changes in Aspects of Student's Self-Reported Personal, Social & Technical Skills during a six-week wilderness expedition in Arctic Greenland |
Takano, T |
2010 |
A 20-year retrospective study of the impact of expeditions
on Japanese |
Tozer, M et al |
2007 |
Recognizing and Developing Adaptive Expertise within outdoor and expedition leaders |
Watts, F et al |
1992 |
Expedition Stress and Personality Change |
Watts, F et al |
1993a |
Personality Change Produced by Expedition Stress: A Controlled Study |
Watts, F et al |
1993b |
Cognitive Strategies in Coping with Expedition Stress |
Watts, F et al |
1994 |
Personality and Coping Strategies on a Stressful Expedition |