scholarly journals Welcome to the Bubble: Experiences of Liminality and Communitas among Summer Camp Counsellors

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 24-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandi Baker
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Emotional Demands ◽  
Residential Camps ◽  
Special Time

Summer camps provide a special time and space for youth growth and transformation. This growth is possible, in part, due to the physical and social isolation that contribute to the liminality of traditional residential camps. Camps act as a sort of ‘bubble’ in which alternative realities, norms and identities emerge. For many campers and camp counsellors, the community and personal relationships that develop at camp produce feelings of acceptance and belonging. Positive camp experiences do not occur by happenstance and as such, youthful camp counsellors often feel immense pressure to deliver on the promises that camps offer. This article explores the challenges faced by counsellors as they seek to create and maintain this liminal space. This paper discusses camp counsellors’ own reflections on their personal struggles with social isolation and the need to be accepted, effects of gossip in the close-knit community of camp, a lack of private time or space, and the emotional demands of caring for campers. The article concludes by suggesting how we might reconsider camp counsellor experiences and offers strategies to support counsellors as they navigate and negotiate camp experiences for both themselves and their campers.

“It’s Not Real Life”: Liminality and Summer Camp Employment

2021 ◽  
pp. 074355842110559
Author(s):  
Victoria Povilaitis ◽  
Jim Sibthorp ◽  
Robert P. Warner
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social System ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Transitional Time

Liminal spaces occur separately from everyday life and are important to human development. Due to increased technological connectivity, young people are rarely separated from their home lives. Understanding young adulthood is a transitional time and summer camps can be settings for development, the purpose of this study was to understand the nature of summer camp employment as a liminal space. Individuals from a national (USA) study of summer camp employment ( n = 77, Mage = 21.3) participated in in-depth interviews. Participants were 77.9% White ( n = 60), 9.1% Black or African American, 9.1% Multi-Racial, 2.6% Asian, and 1.3% Latinx. About 64.9% identified as female ( n = 50), 33.8% identified as male, and 1.3% identified as gender non-conforming. Interview transcripts were inductively analyzed using thematic coding. Participants described camp as a liminal space with four dimensions of separation: physical, psychological, social, and technological. They also described experiencing a liminal time of life. In combination, the separation and time-of-life dimensions created an experience of liminal intensity manifested through a closed social system, blurred boundaries between work and non-work life, and increased autonomy. A revised conceptualization of liminal space is suggested and considerations regarding liminal intensity for young people are discussed.

Older adults’ experiences of being at a senior summer camp—A phenomenographic study

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502110420
Author(s):  
Veronika Wallroth ◽  
Kjerstin Larsson ◽  
Agneta Schröder
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Phenomenographic Study

Senior summer camps are arranged by more and more municipalities in Sweden with the purpose of creating a place where older adults can meet and mitigate their social isolation. The aim of the study is to understand, from their own point of view, how the participants experienced senior summer camp. A phenomenographic approach was used to surface the older adults’ experiences and analyze the data. Three descriptive categories evolved: “A pleasant environment to be in”, “Something to do for everyone” and “Breaking one’s loneliness”. Findings from this study suggest that just getting away, not having to cook, seeing and experiencing something else, and having company when eating food or doing activities meant a lot to the participants, who all have different experiences of loneliness. Knowing that other people were lonely made the participants at the senior summer camp realize that they were not to blame for their loneliness.

scholarly journals Medical Record Keeping in the Summer Camp Setting

2016 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. 1154-1167
Author(s):  
Jaycelyn Holland ◽  
Stuart Weinberg ◽  
S. Rosenbloom ◽  
Laura Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Medical Record ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
The United States ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Pediatric Care ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Survey Responses

Summary Background Approximately one fifth of school-aged children spend a significant portion of their year at residential summer camp, and a growing number have chronic medical conditions. Camp health records are essential for safe, efficient care and for transitions between camp and home providers, yet little research exists regarding these systems. Objective To survey residential summer camps for children to determine how camps create, store, and use camper health records. To raise awareness in the informatics community of the issues experienced by health providers working in a special pediatric care setting. Methods We designed a web-based electronic survey concerning medical recordkeeping and healthcare practices at summer camps. 953 camps accredited by the American Camp Association received the survey. Responses were consolidated and evaluated for trends and conclusions. Results Of 953 camps contacted, 298 (31%) responded to the survey. Among respondents, 49.3% stated that there was no computer available at the health center, and 14.8% of camps stated that there was not any computer available to health staff at all. 41.1% of camps stated that internet access was not available. The most common complaints concerning recordkeeping practices were time burden, adequate completion, and consistency. Conclusions Summer camps in the United States make efforts to appropriately document healthcare given to campers, but inconsistency and inefficiency may be barriers to staff productivity, staff satisfaction, and quality of care. Survey responses suggest that the current methods used by camps to document healthcare cause limitations in consistency, efficiency, and communications between providers, camp staff, and parents. As of 2012, survey respondents articulated need for a standard software to document summer camp healthcare practices that accounts for camp-specific needs. Improvement may be achieved if documentation software offers the networking capability, simplicity, pediatrics-specific features, and avoidance of technical jargon. Citation: Kaufman L, Holland J, Weinberg S, Rosenbloom ST. Medical record keeping in the summer camp setting.

Places of Memory as a Tool for Education: The “Peace in Four Voices Summer Camps” at Monte Sole

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
NADIA BAIESI ◽  
MARZIA GIGLI ◽  
ELENA MONICELLI ◽  
ROBERTA PELLIZZOLI
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Major Activity ◽  
School Project ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
Culture Of Peace

Abstract This essay explores how a place of memory can be used as a crucial tool in peace education activities with students from elementary to high school. It draws on the work of the Peace School of Monte Sole and specifically focuses on the “Peace in Four Voices” summer camp, which brings together youth from conflict regions to foster a culture of peace. The camp is a major activity in the Peace School project, since it is from this ten-year-long experience that the idea of a “Peace School” was conceived of and developed.

scholarly journals Summer Camp Health Initiative: An Overview of Injury and Illness in Two Canadian Summer Camps

Cureus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Handler ◽  
Mattan Lustgarten ◽  
Arielle Zahavi ◽  
Daniel D Freedman ◽  
Les Rosoph ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Health Initiative

scholarly journals Examining the Role of Summer Camps in Developing Academic and Workplace Readiness

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cait Wilson ◽  
Jim Sibthorp
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Workplace Readiness ◽  
Relationship Skills ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Supportive Environments ◽  
Communal Living

Summer camps are an effective setting for youth to develop skills essential for academics and the workplace yet are often not recognized as such. Therefore, the primary aim of this study was to investigate learning outcomes from camp most applicable to academics and workplace readiness. As a secondary aim, the researchers sought to identify the mechanisms at camp that support this learning. Youths’ primary learning outcomes include relationship skills, teamwork, how to live with peers, self-confidence, organization, responsibility, independence, perseverance, career orientation, and emotion regulation. In general, mechanisms that supported participants’ learning of outcomes included experiential learning, camp as separate time and space, camp schedules, the role of counselors, communal living, safe and supportive environments, and diversity of people. The implications for camp staff include furthering their programming efforts by placing an emphasis on the mechanisms that elicit academic and workplace readiness. With intentional effort, summer camp can be an important setting for youth to learn valuable skills that are beneficial for them to succeed in academics and work.

scholarly journals Reflexões e percepções sobre a mobilidade e ubiquidade das tecnologias digitais em um contexto caótico

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-413
Author(s):  
Victor Ferreira Ragoni
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
New Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Context ◽  
New Challenges

Resumo: Diante do atual contexto em que o mundo se encontra, de caos, de isolamento social e de relações pessoais modificadas abruptamente, a educação foi alterada praticamente de um dia para o outro. O objetivo deste trabalho é refletir sobre as possibilidades que as tecnologias digitais móveis trazem para a educação em tempos de pandemia e isolamento. Assim, as tecnologias podem influenciar diretamente no cenário educacional, minimizando efeitos da pandemia para que a educação não pare completamente, para que alunos não fiquem um ano sem escolarização e para que não haja atrasos em calendários. Novos desafios são postos: professores precisam informar-se e formar-se nas tecnologias digitais móveis, alunos precisam se adaptar aos novos estilos de aprendizagem, assim como pais e responsáveis agora possuem mais encargos na educação dos filhos. Todas as esferas da sociedade foram afetadas, no entanto é preciso que tiremos algo disso tudo: novas possibilidades de interação, ensino e aprendizagem.Palavras-chave: Ensino Remoto; Tecnologias; Pandemia; Educação. Reflections and percpetions on mobility and ubiquity of digital technologies in chaotic contextAbstract: Given the current context in which the world finds itself, in a chaos, social isolation and personal relationships abruptly modified in an education was practically changed overnight. The objective of this work is to reflect on the possibilities that digital mobile technologies bring to education in times of pandemic and isolation. Thus, as technologies can directly influence the educational scenario, minimizing pandemic effects so that education does not stop completely, so that students do not go a year without schooling and so that there are no delays in calendars. New challenges are posed: teachers need to be informed and educated about mobile digital technologies, students need to adapt to new learning styles, parents and guardians now have more responsibilities in raising their children. All spheres of society were affected, but we need to get something out of it all: new possibilities for interaction, teaching and learning.Keywords: Remote Teaching; Technologies; Pandemic; Education. 

scholarly journals Developmentof problem solving abilities of grades 5–8 at Kangaroo summer camp

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romualdas Kašuba ◽  
Regina Rudalevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps

In the presented article some problems especially suitable for useful solution on Kangaroo summer camps are presented and discussed.

scholarly journals A rationale for the use of anthropometric measurements and bioelectrical impedance analysis as efficacy criteria for summer camp healthcare

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
MYu Gavryushin ◽  
OV Sazonova ◽  
DO Gorbachev ◽  
LM Borodina ◽  
OV Frolova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Bioelectrical Impedance ◽  
Impedance Analysis ◽  
Anthropometric Measurements ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Efficacy Criteria

The proportion of obese and overweight children is alarmingly high. This dictates the need for promoting healthy lifestyle and eating habits in children. Summer camps provide a wide range of activities to improve children’s health. However, methods used to assess children’s nutritional status during a camp session need to be analyzed in depth, and a rationale should be provided for the use of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and anthropometric measurements as efficacy criteria for summer camp healthcare. We examined 125 boys and 221 girls aged 8–15 years spending their summer holidays at 3 different camps. Measurements were taken twice: on days 1 and 2 upon arrival to a camp and 2 days before leaving for home. In each camp, both positive and negative health weight dynamics were observed. The overall weight dynamics in children from camps 1 and 2 were statistically insignificant (p = 0.415 and p = 0.585), in contrast to camp 3 where those changes were significant (p = 0.025). BIA revealed that less than 44.34% of children had gained skeletal muscle mass during their stay at the camp, whereas weight loss was associated with both decreased fat and skeletal muscle masses. BIA confirms the results of anthropometric measurements and also provides information about the diet offered to children and their level of physical activity. Therefore, the use of anthropometric measurements and BIA could be an informative method for assessing the efficacy of healthcare in summer camps.

Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Step Count Compilation for Elementary-Aged Youth Participating in Summer Camp Activities

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Wahl-Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
Excess Weight ◽  
Step Count ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Step Counts ◽  
Residential Camp

The summer months have recently been identified as a time of the year when children gain excess weight. Despite contrary beliefs, youth are more susceptible to weight gain and fitness losses during this time. Summer camps have been identified as a possible solution to reduce declines in overall health during these months. The purpose of this study was to establish expected step counts and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) values for a variety of activities in one residential camp. Participants included 188 campers (M age = 8.7). Sessions included a variety of invasion, target, net/wall and fitness activities. Step counts and MVPA were tracked across 51 days, incorporating 839 activity sessions using a NL–1000 (New Lifestyle Inc., Lee Summit, MO, USA) accelerometer to track campers’ activity. Means and steps/minute were calculated for each activity. Invasion games represented the greatest opportunity for campers to engage in physical activity. Findings are useful for researchers and practitioners to evaluate physical activity and MVPA at camp settings.

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