Stacy Tooru Taniguchi
Assistant Professor
Recreation Management and Youth Leadership, Department of
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Office: W423 TNRB
Phone: 801-422-3844
Email: stacy_taniguchi@byu.edu
Office hours: T 9:30AM-10:30 AM and 3:00PM-4:30PM; W 9:30AM-12:00PM and 3:30PM-4:30PM
Home Page: taniguchi.byu.edu
Expertise:
- Leadership Development
- Leadership and change
- Learning Theory
- Legal Issues
- Outdoor Recreation
- Qualitative Research
- Risk management
- Rock Climbing
- Third world development
- Trip Leadership
- Meaningful Experience Model
- Facilitation of Change Model in Business
- Family Leisure in Africa
- Meaningful learning experiences in outdoor education programs.
- Classical Grounded Theory
- Attributes of effective camp field staff
- Academic self-efficacy and outdoor recreation
- Ph.D., Educational Leadership & Foundations, Brigham Young University, 2004
- M.S., Exercise Physiology, University of Utah, 1981
- B.A., Biology, University of Alaska, Anchorage, 1975
- Commercial Recreation - Primary
- Community Recreation - Primary
- Leisure Services Management - Primary
- Outdoor Recreation - Primary
- Youth & Family Recreation - Primary
- Exercise Physiology - Secondary
- Wilderness Medical Society - Tertiary
- "The attributes of effective field staff in wilderness programs: Changing youths' perspectives of being "cool".," Therapeutic Recreation Journal Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 11-26, National Recreation and Parks Association, April, 2009 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Field staff attributes in wilderness programs: Link to Positive Psychology," Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education 2008 Research Symposium Abstracts AORE Publications, Whitmore Lake, MI, November, 2008 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Tort Liability Considerations for Therapeutic Recreation Professionals," Therapeutic Recreation Journal Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 163-171, National Therapeutic Recreation Society, Ashburn, VA, October, 2008 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "A Call for Theory: Moving Leisure Research Beyond Description," 2007 Leisure Research Symposium Abstracts National Recreation and Parks Association, Ashburn, September, 2007 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Only the Best Need Apply: An exploration of the power of excellent camp counselors to effect lasting change in at-risk youth," Horizon Association of Experiential Education, April, 2007
- "Adventure recreation and adolescent identity development," 2006 Leisure Research Symposium Abstracts Issue 2006, Pages 38, National Recreation and Park Association, Ashburn: VA, October, 2006 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "White Water Rafting, Backpacking, Mountain Biking, and the Good Life: Effects of a wilderness program based on principles from Positive Psychology on disavdvantaged adolescents," 2006 Leisure Research Symposium Abstracts Issue 2006, Pages 39, National Recreation and Park Association, Ashburn: VA, October, 2006 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Conflict processing and marital satisfaction: A study of marital conflict in outdoor winter recreational settings," 2006 Leisure Research Symposium Abstracts Issue 2006, Pages 72, National Recreation and Park Association, Ashburn: VA, October, 2006 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Grounded Theory in Leisure Research: The classical grounded theory approach or QDA?," 2006 Leisure Research Symposium Abstracts Issue 2006, Pages 79, National Recreation and Park Association, Ashburn: VA, October, 2006 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "A Study of Married Couples' Perceptions of Marital Satisfaction in Outdoor Recreation," Journal of Experiential Education Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 253-256, Association of Experiential Education, Boulder, CO, March, 2006
- "Increasing and generalizing self-efficacy: Effects of wilderness guide training on academic efficacy," 2005 Abstracts from the 2005 Leisure Research Symposium Pages 65, National Recreation and Parks Association, Ashburn, VA, October, 2005 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Challenging Recreation in Education: Dewey and Kant Perspectivies for Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences in School," The Eleventh Canadian Congress on Leisure Research Book of Abstracts Pages 604-607, The Recreation and Tourism Research Institute, Nanaimo, BC, May, 2005 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Attributes of meaningful learning experiences in an outdoor education program," Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 131-144, Institute for Outdoor Learning, Penrith, UK, December, 2005 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Tort liability model for community-based outdoor programs: A review of legal elements within public schools related to physical education and extracurricular athletic activities," Utah Leisure Insights Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 14-15,18-19, 22, Utah Recreation and Parks Association, June, 2005 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Tort Liability in Outdoor Education: Application of legal elements in physical education and extracurricular athletic activities within public schools," January, 2004 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Outdoor Education and Meaningful Learning: Finding the attributes to meaningful learning experiences in an outdoor education program," Journal of Experiential Education Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 210-211, March, 2004 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Western America Leisure Lifestyles," Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America Charles Scribner's Sons, Farmington Hills, MI, G. Cross, July, 2004 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Tort Liability in Outdoor Education: Application of Legal Elements in Physical Education and Extracurricular Athletic Activities within Public Schools," November, 2003 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Philosophy and practice of wilderness-based experiential learning," The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Volume 74, Issue 8, Pages 25-27, October, 2003 V I E W A B S T R A C T
Teaching
- Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, 2004
- Adjunct Faculty, Brigham Young University, 2003-2004
- Part-time Instructor, Brigham Young University, 2002-2003
- Senior Guide & Owner, Kahiltna Visions Guiding Company, 1990
- Secondary School Teacher, Anchorage School District, 1975-1998
- Presidential Citation , Society of Park and Recreation Educators , 2007
- Mountaineering: The basics
- Mountaineering: Top 10
- So you want to climb McKinley: A training program for the prospective mountaineering hardman
- Taniguchi: Personal Website
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