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Dr Simon Beames

Lecturer in Outdoor Education

Education, Teaching and Leadership (ETL)

Email: simon.beames@ed.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6093

Location:

Thomson's Land (Rm 2.05)

Background

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.

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Qualification:

BPE (McMaster)
MS (Minnesota State)
PhD (Southampton)

Principal interests

Learning through journeys outside the classroom (local and far away!)
Using social theory to examine outdoor education practice

PhD supervision:

Jerry Tracey: Globally marketed 'lifestyle' and 'extreme' pursuits and their social and cultural interaction with more traditional, nationally-based sports
Clare Nugent: Nature’s kindergarten: A comparative ethnographic study
Sho Shimoyada: Open Gardens in the UK
Sharifah Abdullah: Environmental Education in Malaysia

Current and recent research

Outdoor Journeys
A Natural Curriculum
The Disneyization of adventure
Institutional rock climbing

Publications

Publications list for Dr Simon Beames

Teaching

Postgraduate: Social theory and outdoor education, PGDE (Sec) Outdoor Learning
Undergraduate: BEd Primary Outdoor Learning
Practical: Rock climbing, hillwalking, winter mountaineering, Norway ski tour