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<p>As a Canadian outdoor educator, traveling with students in remote wild places is more complicated than ever. This complication is rooted in acknowledging Canada’s colonial history and the impact that history has had on Indigenous Peoples and land. The purpose of this paper is to share my evolving thinking as an outdoor educator regarding how outdoor education in wild spaces might be shaped, or reshaped, as an opportunity for reconciliation as defined in Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report. To do this, I venture beyond my academic comfort zone and borrow ideas from post-colonial literature and share a developing pathway for reconciliation in outdoor education (OE) that includes three segments: Experience, <i>re-experience</i>, and <i>experience back</i>. The goal of this pathway is to encourage and inspire outdoor educators to create purposeful OE encounters that acknowledge, examine, and challenge dominant colonial discourses that continue to be present in Canadian culture and society and to stimulate critical thought and conversation about how outdoor educators can contribute to reconciliation, particularly in settler colonial nations such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.</p>

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Experience, re-experience, and experience back: a developing pathway for reconciliation in outdoor education

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    2026年4月17日

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  • Morten Asfeldt

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As a Canadian outdoor educator, traveling with students in remote wild places is more complicated than ever. This complication is rooted in acknowledging Canada’s colonial history and the impact that history has had on Indigenous Peoples and land. The purpose of this paper is to share my evolving thinking as an outdoor educator regarding how outdoor education in wild spaces might be shaped, or reshaped, as an opportunity for reconciliation as defined in Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report. To do this, I venture beyond my academic comfort zone and borrow ideas from post-colonial literature and share a developing pathway for reconciliation in outdoor education (OE) that includes three segments: Experience, re-experience, and experience back. The goal of this pathway is to encourage and inspire outdoor educators to create purposeful OE encounters that acknowledge, examine, and challenge dominant colonial discourses that continue to be present in Canadian culture and society and to stimulate critical thought and conversation about how outdoor educators can contribute to reconciliation, particularly in settler colonial nations such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.