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9 apr 2021 · The Duke of Edinburgh’s education at Scottish independent school, Gordonstoun, notorious for its tough Outward Bounds curriculum and attempts to rid notions of privilege and self-entitlement...
Now the Outward Bound Trust, it is an educational charity that has used the outdoors to help develop over 1 million young people from all walks of life. They run adventurous and challenging outdoor learning courses that equip young people with valuable skills for education, work and life.
Read more. Gordonstoun is also the birthplace of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards, the Outward Bound movement, and was one of the first boarding schools to admit girls alongside boys. The school then had some of the first female firefighters in the UK. Gordonstoun was founded in 1934 by German educationalist Dr Kurt Hahn.
Outward bound. Gordonstoun temporarily relocated to Aberdyfi, Wales during World War II, while the British Army used the Gordonstoun estate as barracks. Hahn worked with friends and fellow educationalist, Lawrence Durning Holt and Jim Hogan.
Outward Bound is an innovative educational concept developed by Kurt Hahn, a celebrated and progressive German educator, which has now flourished for over eighty years. (IP/VC) The birth of today’s Outward Bound began humbly with the opening of Gordonstoun school in Scotland in the 1930’s with only two students.
In the classrooms of the Gordonstoun School, Kurt Hahn first applied the principles of a curriculum that placed equal emphasis on the development of character, leadership, and a sense of service with intellectual studies. Developing Education in a Time of War.
Outward Bound grew out of Hahn's work in the development of the Gordonstoun school and what is now known as the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. Outward Bound's founding mission, during the Second World War, was to improve the survival chances of young seamen should their ships be torpedoed in the mid-Atlantic.
