Lesson 2: Outdoor Education in Hong Kong Summary

What are the typical culture of Hong Kong? (Multi-Select)

• Support family and parents

• Stress on study

• Work-life balance

• Need to be financially secured

Following from Question 1, as a result, what are the effects on young people in Hong Kong? (Multi-Select)

• Sacrifice opportunity for recreation

• Young people tend to be more disciplined

• Young people tend to be more care - free

• Sacrifice the time to interact with the nature

How the Pak Sin Ling fire changed the perception of outdoor adventure education in Hong Kong? (Multi-Select)

• Public demand a higher level of safety in the outdoor industry

• Outdoor education programmes to be ran in a safer environment, and more camp sites were built.

• Schools demand a more effective outcomes for the outdoor education programmes.

• Schools prefer "risk-free" outdoor activities, rather than real outdoor challenging activities

The development of (a)   made the outdoor education training courses to be shorter and easier in recent years.

What were the three recommendations made from Beams and Browns in their research: Outdoor Education in Hong Kong: Past, Present, and Future (2005)? (Multi-Select)

• Higher pay to attract new blood to the outdoor industry

• Create a governing body for the outdoor industry development

• Outdoor programmes to go back to the real outdoors

• More education, training and development opportunities for the outdoor industry

The first major difference between the experiential education and the traditional education is that, traditional education sees mistake as negative and experiential education values it as a (a)   opportunity.

The second major difference between the experiential education and the traditional education is that, traditional education focuses on telling the answer to the students but experiential education focuses on letting the students (a)   out the answer by themselves.

"According to our survey in 2024, there is a more balanced gender (Female - 40% and Male - 60%) workforce in the outdoor industry, compared to the male-dominated situation in 2005."

Select the reasons suggested by the research. (Multi-Select)

• Families and peers appear to be more support.

• The rapid development of outdoor adventure activities in the past 20 years.

• The Generation Z (born between 1990 - 1999) 's values in money and life.

• More successful images of female role models have been established in recent years.

What are the reasons that the outdoor companies are relying heavily on the freelance workers in the outdoor industry? (Multi-Select)

• The outdoor education work itself is seasonal in Hong Kong.

• There is a lack of demand from schools to meet the outdoor companies' expectation.

• Outdoor companies can potentially reduce the operation costs when hiring staff part-time rather than full time.

• Many more companies have been established in the outdoor industry in the past 20 years.

According to Beams and Brown (2005) research, the outdoor instructors could remain at the same organization for up to 25 years but now, many of the instructors only work between 3 - 5 years at the same organization, Why? (Multi-Select)

• The new generations prefer freedom over long-term commitment.

• Generation Z's values of "Money is not the most important and life is not all about work."

• There is a lack of staff development support from the organizations.

• The perceived values of "Iron Rice Bowl" has changed for the younger generations.