Publications

Selected Books

Beames, S. & Brown, M. (2016).  Adventurous learning: A pedagogy for a changing world. New York: Routledge.

Wattchow, B. & Brown, M. (2011). Pedagogy of place: Outdoor education for a changing world. Melbourne, Australia: Monash University Publishing.

Beames, S., Mackie, C. & Atencio, M. (2019). Adventure and society. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.

Beames, S., Higgins, P., & Nicol, R. (2011). Learning outside the classroom. New York: Routledge.

Beames, S. (Ed.) (2010). Understanding educational expeditions. Rotterdam: Sense.

Selected Journal Articles

Beames, S., Mackie, C. & Scrutton, R. (2018). Alumni perspectives on a boarding school outdoor education programme. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2018.1557059

Beames, S., Humberstone, B. & Allin, L. (2017). Adventure revisited: Critically examining the concept of adventure and its relations with contemporary outdoor education and learning. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 17(4), 275-279.

Seaman, J., Brown, M. & Quay, J. (2017). The evolution of experiential learning theory: Tracing lines of research in the JEE. Journal of Experiential Education. DOI: 10.1177/1053825916689268

Asfeldt, M. & Beames, S. (2016). Trusting the journey: Embracing the unpredictable and difficult to measure nature of wilderness educational expeditions. Journal of Experiential Education, 40(1), 72-86.

Brown, M. & Beames, S. (2016). Adventure education: Redux. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. doi: 10.1080/14729679.2016.1246257

Beames, S. & Brown, M. (2014). Enough of Ronald and Mickey: Focusing on learning in outdoor education. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 14(2), 118-131

Hill, A. & Brown, M. (2014). Intersections between place, sustainability and transformative outdoor experiences. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 14(3), 217-232.

Brown, M. (2013) Teachers’ perspectives on place-responsive outdoor education. Set, 2, 3-10

Scrutton, R. & Beames S. (2013). Measuring the unmeasurable: Increasing rigour in quantitative studies of personal and social development in outdoor adventure education. Journal of Experiential Education. DOI: 10.1177/1053825913514730

Stott, T., Allison, P., Felter, J. & Beames, S. (2013). Personal development on youth expeditions: A literature review and thematic analysis. Leisure Studies. DOI:10.1080/02614367.2013.841744

Beames, S. (2012). The conscious use (or avoidance) of metaphor in outdoor adventure education. Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 24(4), 24-27.

Brown, M. (2012). Student perspectives of a place-responsive outdoor education programme. New Zealand Journal of Outdoor Education, 3(1), 64-88.

Cosgriff, M., Legge, M., Brown, M., Boyes, M., Zink, R. & Irwin, D. (2012). Outdoor learning in Aotearoa New Zealand: Voices past, present and future. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 12(3), 221-235.

Beames, S. & Ross, H. (2010). Journeys outside the classroom. Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning, 10(2), 95-109.

Brown, M. & Fraser, D. (2009). Re-evaluating risk and exploring educational alternatives. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. 9(1), 61-77.

Brown, M. (2008). Comfort zone: Model or metaphor? Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 12(1), 3-12.

Brown, M. (2008). Outdoor education: Opportunities provided by a place based approach. New Zealand Journal of Outdoor Education 2(3), 7-25.

Beames, S., & 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.

Pike, E. & Beames, S. (2007). A critical interactionist analysis of 'youth development' expeditions. Journal of Leisure Studies, 26(2), 147-159.

Beames, S. (2006). Losing my religion: The struggle to find applicable theory. Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 19(1), 4-11.

Beames, S. (2005). Expeditions and the social construction of the self. Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 9(1), 14-22.

Beames, S. (2004). Critical elements of an expedition experience. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 4(2), 145-157.

Beames, S. (2004). Overseas youth expeditions: A rite of passage? Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 8(1), 29-36.

Selected Book Chapters

Beames, S. & Brown, M. (2017). Disneyization and the provision of leisure experiences. In K. Spracklen, B. Lashua,  E. Sharpe, & S. Spencer (Eds.). The Palgrave handbook of leisure theory (pp. 855-871). London: Palgrave-McMillan.

Brown, M. & Wattchow, B. (2016). Enskilment and place-responsiveness in outdoor studies. In B. Humberstone, H. Prince & K. Henderson (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of outdoor studies (pp. 435-443). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Brown, M. & Heaton, S. (2015). Ko ahau te awa ko te awa ahu: I am the river, and the river is me. In M. Robertson, R. Lawrence & G. Heath (Eds.), Experiencing the outdoors: Enhancing strategies for wellbeing (pp. 49-60). Rotterdam: Sense.

Wattchow, B., & Brown, M. (2015) Programming for place-responsiveness: Enhancing adventure learning and outdoor travel. In R. Black & K. Bricker (Eds.), Adventure programming and travel in the 21st century (pp. 35-47). State College, PA: Venture.

Beames, S. & Varley, P. (2013). Eat, play, shop: The Disneyization of adventure. In S. Taylor, P. Varley, and T. Johnston (Eds), Adventure tourism: Meanings, experience and learning (pp. 77-84). London: Sage.

Brown, M. (2012). A changing landscape: Place responsive pedagogy. In D. Irwin, J. Straker & A. Hill (Eds.), Outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand: A new vision for the twenty first century (pp. 104-124). Christchurch: CPIT.

Brown, M. (2012). Freeing ourselves from narrow thinking about risk in adventure programming. In B. Martin & M. Wagstaff (Eds.), Controversial issues in adventure programming (pp. 10-15). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Bell, B., Beames, S. & Carlson, W. (2010). The expedition and rites of passage. In S. Beames (Ed.), Understanding educational expeditions (pp. 33-44). Rotterdam: Sense.

Beames, S. (2003). Overseas youth expeditions. In B. Humberstone & H. Brown & K. Richards (Eds.), Whose Journeys? Penrith: Institute for Outdoor Learning, 289-296.