Books written by Simon Beames

  • Adventurous Learning: A Pedagogy for a Changing World
    Adventurous Learning: A Pedagogy for a Changing World

    ... challenges entrenched ways of learning and refocuses on the passions and agency of the learner. ̄ ¦Mike Boyes, MNZM, Associate Professor of Outdoor Education, University of Otago, New Zealand ...

  • Adventure and Society
    Adventure and Society

    undoubtedly have more resources to obtain certain technological advances than others (Ryall, 2013). We talk more about equipment in 7 Chap. 5 when we discuss the influence of capitalism. z Mobility The third feature of late modernity is ...

  • Adventurous Learning: A Pedagogy for a Changing World
    Adventurous Learning: A Pedagogy for a Changing World

    PARADOXICAL ASPECTS OF ADVENTURE To gain a more nuanced perspective of adventure we now turn to a paper by Lynch and Moore (2004), who adopted a socio-historical approach as the basis for their analysis. One of the strengths of their ...

  • Adventure and Society
    Adventure and Society

    ' --Eric Brymer, Reader, Leeds Beckett University, UK 'This text offers a wide-ranging analysis of adventure and its function in the lives of people who engage in it.

  • Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory
    Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory

    Each chapter in the book introduces a key ‘classical’ or modern social theorist, including Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Elias, or a universal topic or issue in social theory, such as sustainability, commodification or identity.

  • Learning Outside the Classroom: Theory and Guidelines for Practice
    Learning Outside the Classroom: Theory and Guidelines for Practice

    "The first curricular-focused outdoor learning textbook for prospective and practising K-12 teachers, this book provides both academic justification and practical support for educators working in a wide variety of environments and with ...

  • Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory
    Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory

    Each chapter in the book introduces either a key social theorist, or a universal topic or issue in social theory.

  • Learning Outside the Classroom: Theory and Guidelines for Practice
    Learning Outside the Classroom: Theory and Guidelines for Practice

    This is the first textbook based around the curriculum for prospective and practising primary and secondary teachers and other outdoor educators.

  • Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory
    Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory

    ... can be found in: Crane, R. and Crane, N. (1985) Bicycles up Kilimanjaro, Somerset: Oxford Illustrated Press. ... For more on adventure, cycling and the debate about how profound the changes we need to make to tackle climate change ...

  • Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum: Theory and Guidelines for Practice
    Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum: Theory and Guidelines for Practice

    Following the acclaim for Learning Outside the Classroom in 2012, this latest book more deeply explains how well constructed outdoor learning experiences can benefit children and young people’s academic development and health and ...