Instructor of Adventure Education Moses 15 One Brennan Circle Poultney, VT 05764-1199 Email Address: furmann@greenmtn.edu Phone: 802-287-8347; Fax: 802-287-8080
Education University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah PhD Candidate: Passed dissertation defense, December, 2009 Major: Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Foci: Outdoor Education and Natural Resource Management Dissertation: "The effects of a treatment curriculum on the learning transfer of prosocial behavior in adventure education” California State University, Chico MA, 2004, Chico, California Major: Recreation Administration Focus: Natural Resource Management Masters Project: “Rock climbing impacts on the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome” California State University, Chico BA, 2000, Chico, California Major: Organizational Communication Minor: Conflict Resolution Selected Teaching Experience Course Leader/Patrol Leader/Instructor National Outdoor Leadership School (Lander, Wyoming) May 2002 –present Program Supervisor NOLS Teton Valley Branch May 2008 to September 2008 Co-Lead of Weekend Programming Gateway Academy, LLC. (Salt Lake City, Utah) September 2008 – present Select Publications Sibthorp, J., Furman, N., Paisley, K., Gookin, J. (In press). Mechanisms of learning transfer in adventure education: Qualitative results from the NOLS transfer survey. Journal of Experiential Education. Sibthorp, J., Paisley, K., Furman, N., & Gookin, J. (2008) Long-term impacts attributed to participation in adventure education: Preliminary findings from NOLS. Research in Outdoor Education, 9, 86-102. Paisley, K., Sibthorp, J., Gookin, J., Furman, N., & Schumann, S. (2008). Predictors of participant development though adventure education: Replication and extension of previous findings from NOLS. Research in Outdoor Education, 9, 60-74. Sibthorp, J., Paisley, K., Gookin, J., & Furman, N. (2008). The pedagogic value of student autonomy in adventure education. Journal of Experiential Education 31(2), 136-151. Haas, C. & Furman, N. (2008). Operation recreation: Adventure challenge: Teaching programming through problem-based learning theory. Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education. 23, 60-65. Furman, N. (in progress) The Mountaineering Educator Notebook. Editor and an author for a 200- page book on how to teach mountaineering at NOLS. Anticipated completion date: May, 2010.
Selected Presentations & Seminars Furman, N., Erpelding, M., & Zimmer, T. (2009). The role of heuristic-based decision-making in outdoor education: A 2-sided debate. Association for Outdoor Recreation and Education. Minneapolis, Minn. Furman, N. (2008). Exploring experiential education from the vantage point of lifelong outdoor educators. A presentation at the 2008 Rocky Mountain Association of Experiential Education conference. Furman, N. (2007). Rock climbing impacts on the granite of Yosemite National Park and their implications for the sandstone of Zion National Park. A presentation for the Intermountain Leisure Symposium.
Certifications and Professional Development Wilderness First Responder: valid through September of 2010 CPR: valid through September 2010 Professional Climbing Instructor Association: Base-Managed Instructor, September, 2009 Professional Climbing Instructor Association: Top-Managed Instructor, September, 2009 Professional Climbing Instructor Association: Single-Pitch Instructor, September 2009 Professional Climbing Instructor Association: Course Provider Training, November 2009 American Mountain Guides Association: Advanced Rock Guide Course, May 2005 American Mountain Guides Association: Single Pitch Instructor Course, October 2009 American Mountain Guides Association: Rock Guide Exam, April, 2010 Leave No Trace: Master Certification, May 2002 Leave No Trace: Trainer Certification, May, 2002 Leave No Trace: Master-Level Educator Instructor, May 2007 Avalanche Level 1: Colorado Mountain College, AIARE endorsed, January, 2002 Avalanche Level 2: Colorado Mountain College, AIARE endorsed, February, 2002 Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician: from California State Fire Marshall, Fall, 1998 (expired)
