Dr Simon Beames
Honorary Fellow
- Moray House School of Education and Sport, IETL
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: simon.beames@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Simon's blog
- Simon's Twitter profile
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
Simon Beames is a senior lecturer in the Outdoor & Environmental Education Section of the Moray House School of Education & Sport.
For 25 years, Simon has taught outdoors in North America, Asia, and Europe. He is former co-editor of the Journal of Experiential Education and former Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Simon developed the Outdoor Journeys programme –– a cross-curricular, local outdoor learning initiative. He has published five books: Understanding educational expeditions (editor), Learning outside the classroom (co-author), Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory (co-editor), Adventurous Learning (co-author), and Adventure and Society.
Outdoor Education at the University
Books
Understanding educational expeditions
Learning outside the classroom
Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory
Qualifications
- BPE (McMaster)
- MSc (Minnesota State Mankato)
- PhD (Southampton)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Convener of the University's Expeditions Committee
Member of the School's Equality & Diversity Committee
Board member of Venture Mór
Editorial Board for the Journal of Experiential Education and the Journal of Outdoor Environmental Education
Postgraduate teaching
- Postgraduate academic: Experiential Education, Social Theory and Outdoor Education, PGDE Secondary Outdoor Learning
- Practical: Rock climbing, hillwalking, winter mountaineering, Norway ski tour
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
- John Pierce- A Longitudinal Case Study into the Practices and Processes of Outdoor Centres in Ireland
- Ethan Lewis- Impacts of Cultural Ecosystem Services on Community Development in a Community Garden in Edinburgh
- Susanne Paulus- Exploring place-based outdoor education in the context of transmigration realities
Past PhD students supervised
- Rebekah Tauritz- Developing Uncertainty Competences through Outdoor Education for Sustainability
- Sharifah Syed Abdullah- Influences of Residential Outdoor Environmental Education on environmental attitudes and behaviours
- Sho Shimoyamada- The production of Scottish open gardens: Perceptions of power
- Clare Nugent- Nature kindergartens as pedagogical environment for early childhood: a multi-case study
- Jerry Tracey- An investigation into the cultural interaction between slalom and play-boating with white-water canoeing and kayaking
Research summary
- Learning through journeys outside the classroom (local and far away!)
- Using social theory to examine outdoor education practice
- Exploring the relationship between adventure and learning
- The influence of society on adventure practices
Project activity
- Outdoor Journeys
- A Natural Curriculum
- The Disneyization of adventure
- Institutional rock climbing
- Adventure and education
- Socio-economic status and access to outdoor learning
- Influences of out-of-classroom learning experiences at Gordonstoun School
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What future/s for outdoor and environmental education in a world that has contended with COVID-19?
In:
Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42322-020-00059-2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Testing a Framework for ‘Experiential’ Learning in Higher Education, and Implications for Course Design and Delivery
(1 page)
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Abstract (Published) -
Alumni perspectives on a boarding school outdoor education programme
(15 pages)
In:
Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, vol. 20, pp. 123-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2018.1557059
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning Edited by T. Gray and D. Mitten. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. pp.911, Price = £160.50 (eBook) and £201.00 (Hardcover) ISBN eBook = 978-3-319-53550-0 ISBN Hardcover = 978-3-319-53549-4
(3 pages)
In:
Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 26, pp. 1059-1061
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12326
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Young people’s outdoor refuges: Movements and (dis)entanglements
(13 pages)
In:
Children's Geographies, vol. 17, pp. 401-412
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2018.1529860
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Adventure and Society
(201 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96062-3
Research output: › Book (Published) -
‘Mud in my ears and jam in my beard’: Challenging gendered ways of being in nature kindergarten practitioners
(10 pages)
In:
International Journal of Early Years Education, pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2018.1562884
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Adventure education: Redux
(14 pages)
In:
Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, vol. 17, pp. 294-306
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2016.1246257
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Adventure revisited: Critically examining the concept of adventure and its relations with contemporary outdoor education and learning
(5 pages)
In:
Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, pp. 1-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2017.1370278
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published) -
Community assets
(7 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published)