Adventure Education Research Guide

The Adventure Education program at Prescott College includes a wide variety of courses and areas of study, including Alpine Mountaineering; Environmental Perspectives and Whitewater Rafting; Expeditionary Rivers: Arctic: Canoeing Alaska; SCUBA Diving & Marine Natural History; Whitewater Rafting; Rock Climbing & Geology; Rock Climbing & Yoga; Introduction to Rock Climbing; Sea Kayaking & Marine Natural History; Adventure Education; Explorers & Geographers; Geography of the Eastern World; Maps & Wilderness Navigation; Origins & Directions in Adventure Education; Outdoor Education & Recreation; Rock Climbing for Women; Rock Climbing; The Whole Athlete; Women's Topics in Wilderness Leadership; and various Special Topics.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias  |  Subject Terms  |  Article Databases  |  eJournals  |  Web Resources   |  Citation Styles  |   Organizations

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Ebooks:

Dictionary of Sport and Exercise Science

EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon

Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Education

On the Reference Shelf:

Climbing: The Complete Reference

The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga

Subject Terms

Books and journal databases each have their own "controlled vocabulary" - using the appropriate language will give you the most specific search results.

 Article Databases

• EBSCOhost includes Academic Search Premier, ERIC, Education Research Complete and Environment Complete.  Full-text articles are available over 4,700 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,250 journals in the collection.
• GoogleScholar   "enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web".
• JSTOR  is a trusted archive of important scholarly journals. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. Prescott College subscribes to Arts & Sciences Collections I and IV, Biological Sciences Collection, and Language & Literature Collection.
• ProQuest including Research Library, provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 3,820 titles—over 2,550 in full text—from 1971 forward.
  

eJournals  

full text, academic content

• High Country News
• Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Leadership
• Journal of Experiential Education

 Web Resources

• Maps, Imagery, & Publications from USGS
• National Snow & Ice Data Center

• Outdoor Ed The Outdoor Professional's Resource

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Citation Styles  

Handouts provide help in writing style, formatting your paper, and citing your sources, both in-text and in the References/Bibliography section.   

• APA   The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association Style, 6th edition

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Organizations

• The Access Fund 
• American Alpine Club
• The Association for Experiential Education
• Children & Nature Network

Contact a Librarian!  

Michaela Willi Hooper 928-350-1307

Rich Lewis 928-350-1301