Shayne Galloway

BS MS PhD(Ind)
Tel 64 3 479 8649
Email: shayne.galloway@otago.ac.nz

Papers Taught

Background

Shayne Galloway, Ph.D., is a lecturer in Outdoor Education. He completed masters and doctoral work at Indiana University. His masters' thesis focused on recreation resource management and the use of wilderness orientation programs in orientation and school intake capacities. Adventure and outdoor education programming was the focus of the doctoral work with emphasis in education psychology and the social psychological factors that influence naturalistic decision-making contexts.

Dr. Galloway served as assistant professor in recreation and program coordinator at Utah Valley State University (Orem, UT). In that capacity he developed the bachelors in outdoor recreation management, instructed in recreation and outdoor leadership theory, as well as skill courses in rock climbing, backpacking and mountaineering.

Shayne also served as a visiting lecturer with the National Park Service at the Albright Training Center in Grand Canyon National Park. He has worked with various populations in outdoor education settings in camp, secondary school, and collegiate locales, as well as the Voyageur Outward Bound School and the Wilderness Education Association. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Experiential Education, and a periodic reviewer for the Journal of Leisure Research.

Research Interests

Dr. Galloway's major research interests centre on dual-process cognition and factors influential in the development of experience and decision-making in naturalistic environments in outdoor leadership and recreational contexts. Of particular interest are training in outdoor first aid and risk management and the development of situation awareness, problem identification, and resultant actions. The effect of leader efficacy is also being examined from a macrocognitive perspective.

His research focuses on the effects of personal and professional experience factors, social factors, and naturalistic decision-making. This approach to research has been applied in outdoor education, as well as in the context of recreation resource management concerning recreation specialization, participant motivation, and site preferences.

Dr. Galloway also does theoretical work in the area of social deviance in recreation contexts, particularly in regard to the positive, developmental aspects of deviant recreational behaviour.

Research Projects

  • Cold-water immersion effects on naturalistic decision making for Water Safety New Zealand
  • Outdoor First Aid: Situation Awareness and Decision-making - Analysis of Training Retention and Application
  • Leader Efficacy and the Development of Outdoor Leader Decision-making
  • New Zealand River Recreation Survey: Motivation, Site Preference and Decision-making.  Funded by SPARC and Water Safety New Zealand
  • The Effect of Learning Environment on Risk Perception In Adventure Recreation.
  • The Effect of Learning Environment on Perception of Environmental Impact In Adventure Recreation.
  • An Investigation of the Effect of Experience on Outdoor Instructor Decision-Making From the Perspective of Social Judgment Theory.
  • Development and Validation of an Outdoor Leader Experience Use History.
  • A Grounded Theory of Outdoor Instructor Decision Making.
  • A Behavior Setting Survey of Voyageur Outward Bound: An Ecological Psychology Perspective on Components Affecting Leader Decision Making.
  • Indiana Trails Study: A Study of the River Greenway Trail in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Project Associate. Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands. 2001
  • Indiana Trails Study: A Study of the Maple City Greenway Trail in Goshen, Indiana. Project Associate. Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands. 2001
  • Indiana Trails Study: A Study of the Pennsey Rail Trail in Greenfield, Indiana. Project Associate. Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands. 2001
  • Indiana Trails Study: A Study of the River Monon Trail in Indianapolis, Indiana. Project Associate. Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands. 2001
  • Indiana Trails Study: A Study of the Cardinal Greenway Trail in Muncie, Indiana. Project Associate. Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands. 2001
  • Indiana Trails Study: A Study of the Prairie Dunelane Trail in Portage, Indiana. Project Associate. Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands. 2001
  • Language and the Learner: A Multi-Method Case Study Examination of Instruction in Adventure Recreation and Education. Dr. Tom Schwen. Indiana University.
  • Recreation Use Survey for Hoosier National Forest, Phase One and Two with Dr. Doug Knapp (study funded by the U.S. Forest Service as a pilot study for later survey on U.S.F.S. properties) 1999.
  • The Use of Assessment in Wilderness Orientation Programs: Efforts to Improve College Student Retention (Master’s Thesis).

Selected Publications

  • Galloway, S. P. (2012). Recreation Specialization among New Zealand River Recreation Users: A Multi-Activity Study of Motivation and Site Preference. Leisure Sciences.
  • Shooter, W. & Galloway, S. P. (2010). The Use of Factorial Designs in Leisure Research. Journal of Leisure Research.
  • Galloway, S. P. (2010). Recreation Specialization among New Zealand Whitewater Kayakers: A Study of Motivation and Site Preference. Annals of Leisure Research.
  • Galloway, S. P. (2007). Experience and medical decision-making in outdoor leaders. Journal of Experiential Education, V. 30. N, 2.
  • Galloway, S. P. (2006). Special issue of Leisure/Loisir: Journal of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies on Deviant Leisure, V. 30, N. 1.
  • Galloway, S. P. (2005). Avalanche! – Teachable Moments in Outdoor Education. Journal of the Wilderness Education Association, V. 17, N. 2.
  • Galloway, S. P. (2005). Hierarchical Linear Modeling of the Effect of Experience on Decision-making in Outdoor Leaders (Abstract). Journal of Experiential Education, V. 27. N, 3.
  • Galloway, S. P. & Roberts, N.S. (Co-editors). Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the Association of Experiential Education, Norfolk Virginia.
  • Galloway, S.P. & Goldenberg, M. (2004) Inquiry at the Crossroads: A Facilitated Discussion Regarding Research Needs in Experiential Education. Journal of Experiential Education, V. 26, N. 3.
  • Galloway, S.P. (2004) Threads, Implications, and Research Needs: Reaction to the Second Annual Symposium for Experiential Education Research. Journal of Experiential Education, V. 26, N. 3.
  • Galloway, S.P. (2002). Theoretical Cognitive Differences in Expert and Novice Outdoor Leader Decision Making: Implications for Training and Development. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, V. 1, N. 3.
  • Galloway, S.P. (2001). Ellie’s Boots. Illuminare, V. 7, N. 1.
  • Galloway, S.P. (2000). Assessment in Wilderness Orientation Programs: Efforts to Improve College Student Retention. Journal of Experiential Education, V. 23, N. 2, 75-84.

Book Chapters

  • Galloway, S. P. (2012). Are rational decision-making models the most effective method to train novice outdoor leaders. In M. Wagstaff and B. Martin (Eds.), Controversial Issues in Adventure Programming, Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics.
  • Galloway, S. P. (2008). Unit Two: Rock Climbing. In A. Attarian and M. Wagstaff (Eds.), Outdoor Adventure Technical Skills: A curriculum guide. Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics.

Research Reports

  • Galloway, S.P. (2008) New Zealand Recreational River Use Study: Specialization, Motivation and Site Preference. Dunedin, New Zealand. School of Physical Education, University of Otago.

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Last updated 5 Sept 2011

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