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Dr Simon Beames
Lecturer
Dept
of PE, Sport & Leisure Studies
The Moray House School of Education,
The University of Edinburgh,
St Leonard's Land, Holyrood Road,
Edinburgh EH8 8AQ
Scotland, UK
 Email: simon.beames@ed.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 131 651
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[ Qualifications ]
[ Principal Interests ] [ PhD
Supervision ] [ Biographical
Note ] [ Current
and Recent Research ] [ Publications ] [ Further
Info ]
Qualifications
- BPE (McMaster)
- MS (Minnesota State)
- PhD (Southampton)
Principal
Interests
- Learning through journeys outside the classroom
- Using social theory to examine outdoor education practice
Research
Supervision
Biographical
Note
The first ten years of my career
were spent getting people lost in the wilds of North America and Southeast
Asia - all in the name of the participants' personal development (and mine
too!). Since completing my PhD on Overseas youth expeditions, I have become
more concerned with how people learn about "place" by undertaking journeys
within their local communities. I am also interested in using social theory
to examine outdoor learning practice.
Current
and Recent Research
Outdoor Journeys: Investigating
this school-based programme that involves students planning and undertaking
journeys from their school grounds.
Overseas youth expeditions: Continuing contributions to the body of theoretical and empirical literature that is informed by, and (hopefully!) informs, practice.
Publications
Selected
Publications:
Beames, S., and Pike, E. (2008). Goffman goes rock climbing: Using creative fiction to explore the presentation of self in outdoor education. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 12(2), 3-11.
Beames, S., & Atencio, M. (2008). Building social capital through outdoor education. Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning, 8(2), 99-112.
Pike, E. & Beames, S. (2007). A critical interactionist analysis of 'youth development' expeditions. Journal of Leisure Studies, 26(2), 147-159.
Beames, S., Brown, A. (2005). Outdoor education in Hong Kong: Past, present, future. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 5(1), 69-82.
Beames, S. (2005). Expeditions and the social construction of the self. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 9(1), 14-22.
 More
listed on the Outdoor Education
website
Further
Information
Further
information on the Outdoor Education
website
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