{"id":12739,"date":"2011-10-14T08:51:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12739"},"modified":"2011-10-13T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T20:11:10","slug":"professor-awarded-for-outdoor-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/10\/professor-awarded-for-outdoor-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor awarded for outdoor education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12740\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12740\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12740 \" title=\"Tim O'Connell (far right) with the Brock delegation at the Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario conference\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/oconnellconference.jpg\" alt=\"Tim O'Connell, far right, was part of a Brock delegation at the Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario conference.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim O&#39;Connell, far right, was part of a Brock delegation at the Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario conference.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Recreation and Leisure Studies professor has received an award for his work in using outdoor education to develop leadership qualities in youth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/faculty-directory\/recreation-leisure-studies\/tim-o-connell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim O\u2019Connell<\/a> received the Dorothy Walter Leadership Award at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coeo.org\/conference.html\" target=\"_blank\">Council of Outdoor Educations of Ontario conference<\/a> last month. O\u2019Connell helped found <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/basecamp\" target=\"_blank\">Brock BaseCamp<\/a>, an outdoor orientation program for incoming Brock students.<\/p>\n<p>Several Recreation and Leisure Studies faculty, students and alumni attended the conference, which was Sept. 23 to 25 at YMCA Camp Kitchikewana in the Georgian Bay Islands.<\/p>\n<p>At the conference, doctoral student Ryan Howard was part of three workshops. He presented \u201cAdventure Spaces: How We View Our Adventure Places,\u201d co-presented \u201cFrom Idea to Action: Bringing the Brock BaseCamp Outdoor Orientation Program to Life\u201d with O\u2019Connell and moderated Mary Breunig\u2019s panel session, \u201cIntegrated Environmental Education: Theory, Praxis and Research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masters student Liz Kirk presented her research on the social support networks of wilderness program leaders. Adjunct professor Bob Henderson presented \u201cGood Things Come in Threes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim O&#8217;Connell was acknowledge for his work in using outdoor education to develop leadership qualities in youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3],"tags":[28,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12742,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739\/revisions\/12742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}