Staff Rides as a Pedagogical Tool in Professional Military Education (PME) [Elektronisk resurs] Planning and Conducting Historical Staff Rides

• The use of various practical pedagogical tools is an important part of officer training. This is also an area where there is a long tradition in the training of officer cadets and officers in staff colleges as well as in the Armed Forces more generally. This article focuses on staff rides aimed at teaching tactics and operational arts based on historical examples. This type of staff-rides aims to learn from history with a bearing on the present and the future. The article is organized as follows: first, the article gives a short overview of the history of staff rides, followed by a discussion on different types of staff rides. Then the focus shifts to ways to planning and carrying out a staff-ride. This includes the planning phase, reconnaissance, and the different pedagogical tools that can be used and their implementation. The article concludes with a discussion of how to think when planning and carrying out a staff rides, both practically and pedagogically. The article here presented a schematic model of the pedagogical dynamics of the staff ride for different target groups based on their pre-understanding and the complexity of different field exercises. 

Ämnesord

Social Sciences  (hsv)

Political Science  (hsv)

Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)  (hsv)

Samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Statsvetenskap  (hsv)

Statsvetenskap (exklusive studier av offentlig förvaltning och globaliseringsstudier)  (hsv)

Other Social Sciences  (hsv)

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary  (hsv)

Annan samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Social Sciences  (hsv)

Educational Sciences  (hsv)

Pedagogy  (hsv)

Samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Utbildningsvetenskap  (hsv)

Pedagogik  (hsv)

Krigsvetenskap  (fhs)

War Studies  (fhs)

Genre

government publication  (marcgt)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

staff ride

PME

tactic

land warfare

teaching and learning in higher education

fältövning

taktik

krigsvetenskap

markoperationer

högskolepedagogik

pedagogik

applex

krigsspel

militär utbildning

utbildning