Exploring students' emotional experiences on a 7-day outdoor personal development course: Investigating emotional dynamics across different programme elements

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/I2XSWUAVKZERINDCGKUT/full?target=10.1080/14729679.2023.2261123" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/I2XSWUAVKZERINDCGKUT/full?target=10.1080/14729679.2023.2261123</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2023.2261123" target="_blank" >10.1080/14729679.2023.2261123</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Exploring students' emotional experiences on a 7-day outdoor personal development course: Investigating emotional dynamics across different programme elements

Original language description

Emotions influence the process of personal development and are an important factor in learning. Reflecting on and understanding one’s emotions within an experiential personal development course can contribute to self-knowledge and future professional growth as leisure educators. The course instructors purposefully created space for an intensive experience of different emotions to fulfil the personal development goals of young participants. This study maps the emotions experienced by the participants on a 7-day residential outdoor course conducted in the Czech Republic, which was part of the curriculum of a bachelor’s degree programme. The research group was composed of 18 students aged 19–22 years. Self-reflective recording sheets were employed to gather the data. Participants documented a wide range of emotions, with joy, peace, and ecstasy being the predominant ones. Positive emotions were prevalent in the respondents&apos; accounts. The intensity of the experience was noted as strong to very strong in nearly half of the programme elements. The study tracks the progression of emotional intensity throughout the course and identifies the programme elements in which participants experienced emotions most profoundly. The significance of self-reflection on emotions during the course is discussed, along with suggested recommendations for effectively engaging with emotions in practice.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning

ISSN

1472-9679

e-ISSN

1754-0402

Volume of the periodical

2023

Issue of the periodical within the volume

září

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

1-16

UT code for WoS article

001069437700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85171729742