Kristine Sayaco's List: edu-tour

• The earliest forms of travel for distinctly educational purposes
• were what became known collectively in Britain as the Grand Tour.
• it became the practice for young men to be prepared for government and estate management by travelling in Europe
• paid for by Henry VIII or Elizabeth I in order to gain knowledge and experience.
• 'simples' - the medicinal plants that provided their drugs for treating the sick.
• identify it in its natural setting.
• Boy Scouts movement
• building the individual psychologically and socially
• Dr Cecil Reddie founded Abbotsholme School in Staffordshire as a place to develop both the minds and bodies of its pupils in pleasant surroundings
• outdoor education shown above is the Field Studies Council which began life in 1947

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• 385 AD 
  St Jerome records the visit of travellers to Jerusalem.
• c610  
  Pilgrims to Rome are able to buy a guide to a route around the main churches of Rome
• "pilgrim"
• "peregrinus"
• foreigner or stranger
• 1394  
  First licence is issued to an English 'pilgrim shipper' to sail from Plymouth to La Corunna, taking pilgrims travelling to Compostela.
• 1572 
  Sir Philip Sydney commences a Grand Tour, paid for by Queen Elizabeth I, in order to learn continental methods of government.
• 1591  
  Fynes Moryson sets out on a Grand Tour paid for by Queen Elizabeth I, to study law,
• 1620  
  (May) First known 'Herbarizing' excursion organised by the Society of Apothecaries, when apprentices were taught to recognise the 'simples' or drug plants during a visit to the country.
• 'Grand Tour
• 1773  
  The 'Annual Register' classifies the reasons for foreign travel as "polite education, the love of variety, the pursuit of health"
• 1832 
  William Buckland, Reader in Geology at Oxford, holds one of his famous "Geological Rides" for the British Association meeting in Oxford.
• 1835 
  Adam Sedgwick starts "Geological Rides" from Cambridge.
• 1839 
  The first guidebook is published by Baedeker
• 1841  
  Thomas Cook's first excursion takes 570 people by train from Leicester to Loughborough for an event in the open air with speeches, entertainment and food.
• "to unite man with man, and man with God"
• 1845  
  Thomas Cook organises a public trip to Liverpool
• "Handbook of the Trip to Liverpool"
• 1854  
  Thomas Cook's first European Tour. 
   
  1865  
  Thomas Cook's first tour of the USA. 
   
  1872  
  Thomas Cook's first world tour.
• 1908  
  The Boy Scouts' Movement is begun officially by Baden-Powell.
• 1941 
  Aberdovey Outward Bound School opens: first purpose-built educational centre to concentrate on education within the countryside. 
  

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• One of the most common reasons students study abroad is language immersion.
• he desire of many to gain an understanding of the world around them.