Mary Breunig

Dr.

Graduate Program Director, Social Justice and Equity Studies and Associate Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies, Brock University, Canada.

Past-Present, Association for Experiential Education

Canada

PhD in Education

Counterhegemonic Teaching and Leadership as a Form of Social Activism

4th Annual Rebecca L. Carver Institute on Experiential Education  Greensboro, North Carolina

(en)Lighten Up? : Humour in the Workplace

Keynote Address for Biennial Meeting of the Burlington, Ontario Parks and Recreation Department  

Canoes and Waterways: Paddling the Canadian landscape

Transcultural European Outdoor Studies Program  Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway

Sense of Community & Leadership Styles in Outdoor Pursuits Trip Groups

Brock University

A primary purpose of one form of leisure experience – outdoor pursuits programs – is the development of positive interpersonal relationships and group experiences that lead to an enhanced sense of community. The purpose of this ongoing scholarship study is to understand the relationship between university students’ participation in outdoor pursuits trips and changes in their perceptions of sense of community, group cohesion, and sense of place over time. Data collection includes both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Evaluating the Impact of Integrated Environmental Studies Programs in Ontario on Students’ Environmental Actions, Behaviours, & Professional Pathways

Social Science and Humanities Research Council

The purpose of this multi-site case study is to:

1. analyze the impact of integrated Environmental Studies Program (ESP) participation on student learning about the environment;
2. analyze the impact of ESP participation on students’ attitudes to and relationships with and to the environment and how that relationship informs pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours; and
3. longitudinally examine the impact of ESP participation on students’ environmental attitudes, knowledge, actions, and professional pathways over time.

“Greening” Niagara’s Schoolyards

Niagara Community Foundation

Designed and installed outdoor classrooms in the Niagara region of Canada

Research Consultant

Outward Bound Canada

Outcomes-Based research collaboration funded by the Mcconnell Foundation

Teaching for and about critical pedagogy in the post-secondary classroom

A paper exploring critical pedagogy praxes

Problematizing critical pedagogy

A paper based on my critical pedagogy research

A qualitative exploration of sense of community through reflective journals during wilderness outdoor education curricula

A paper based on sense of community research