Using adventure activities to discuss difficult topics

What is it about?

This article is about how an adventure-based activity could help facilitate dialogue and enable a safe process where students could engage in a difficult topic such as diversity without feeling threatened. I used a qualitative study in which 89 social work students who took part in diversity training gave permission that their manuscripts be used for documentary analysis. Content analysis was used to analyze the data in order to determine if and how the adventure-based activity contributed to the facilitation of dialogue. I found that the activity contributed to changing the attitude and knowledge of social work students. It opened up new perspectives and allowed students to discuss diversity without fear. This shows that the adventure activities can be an effective strategy to facilitate dialogue between students and other people that has to discuss diversity issues

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Why is it important?

Adventure activities could be used to facilitate difficult dialogues, something that needs to happen more frequently in diverse communities.