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Carmen Tschofen's List: Constructivist schools (more or less) and leadership
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This is the context that our field currently operates within, for better or for worse. How do we respond? Experiential education has certainly not been unaffected by these trends. Our field is much more standardized today than in the times when our motto was “let the mountains speak for themselves.” We have certifications and accreditations, training protocols, and industry standards.
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At what point does cooperation become co-optation? That is to say, as experiential education steps further and further into the mainstream, is there a danger than it can be changed from its potentially transformative roots to a standardized, homogenized, and potential lifeless pedagogy? I see two specific processes that our field is vulnerable to: 1.) What sociologist George Ritzer called McDonaldization, and 2.) What social theorist Henry Giroux called Disnification.
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