Author: Matt Harrington-Keeton
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Cognitive Load Theory and Encoding in Outdoor Education

When taking a learner into a new environment for the first time, there is often so much information for them to take in. New Sights, new sounds, new smells, new sensations. We often underestimate how much information there is being fed into people that have rarely or never experienced the outdoors before. Nevertheless, we then…
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If you want to resolve imposter syndrome, it starts with linguistics.
Ferdinand Saussure, a key thinker in semiotics, made a distinction between the signifier and the signified. The signifier, Saussure suggested, could be thought of any object or word that we can experience through our senses. For example, we can see a dog, we can hear them bark, we may stroke their fur, we may smell…


