Abstract

Adventure education began in the school context. Following the youth movement, reform pedagogy enriched school education through countless innovations, ideas, experiments and experiential teaching. Kurt Hahn, the designated father of experiential education, bundled these ideas and first implemented them at Schule Schloss Salem. Later, he enriched extracurricular education, creating an educational republic that spanned the globe. Around 1980, modern experiential education took its first steps in the German-speaking world, first in youth work, then in home education, and finally with all extracurricular target groups. Initially, experiential education school trips took place only sporadically; today, many experiential education providers have concentrated on school classes. Experiential and action-oriented learning, innovations and activating methods in school lessons have so far only been able to establish themselves to a limited extent.