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Adventure and Society

By: Simon Beames,Chris Mackie,Matthew Atencio

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Adventure and Society

By: Simon Beames,Chris Mackie,Matthew Atencio

This undergraduate textbook provides a broad overview of the ways in which ‘adventurous practices’ influence, and are influenced by, the world around them. The concept of adventure is one that is too often tackled within subject silos of philosophy, education, tourism, or leisure. While much of the analysis is strong, there is little cross-pollination between disciplines. Adventure & Society pulls together the threads of these discourses into one coherent treatment of the term ‘adventure’ and the role that it plays in human social life of the 21st century. It explores how these practices can be considered more deeply through theoretical discourses of capitalism, identity construction, technology and social media, risk-taking, personal development, equalities, and sustainability. As such, the book speaks to a broad audience of undergraduate and postgraduate students across diverse subject areas, and aims to be an accessible starting point for deeper inquiry.

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Springer

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3319960628

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9783319960623

Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum

Theory and Guidelines for Practice

By: Simon Beames,Peter Higgins,Robbie Nicol,Heidi Smith

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Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum

Theory and Guidelines for Practice

By: Simon Beames,Peter Higgins,Robbie Nicol,Heidi Smith

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 wellbeing. Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum outlines the theory and practice to enable preservice and experienced primary and secondary school teachers to systematically incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities, in a range of environments and with diverse groups of students. Six of the chapters are substantially re-worked versions of the 2012 book, two are completely re-imagined, and four are entirely new. Topics for developing learning and teaching outdoors include: Inclusive educational design Learning for sustainability Community-based learning The role of student curiosity and wonder Evidencing learning Developing a whole school approach Place-responsive education Integrating digital technology With practical and engaging chapters containing aims, case studies, and guidelines for practice, this timely book provides teachers the tools with which they can integrate outdoor learning into their daily timetable. It will also be a valuable resource to other professions which use the outdoors for educational purposes.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000932494

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9781000932492

Adventurous Learning

A Pedagogy for a Changing World

By: Simon Beames,Mike Brown

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Adventurous Learning

A Pedagogy for a Changing World

By: Simon Beames,Mike Brown

Adventurous Learning interrogates the word ‘adventure’ and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Teachers of all kinds can adapt these guidelines for indoor and outdoor teaching in their own culturally specific, place-responsive contexts, without any requirement to learn a new program or buy an educational gimmick. As forces of standardization and regulation continue to pervade educational systems across the globe, both teaching and learning have been starved of creativity, choice and ‘real world’ relevance. Many teachers are keen to improve their practice yet feel constrained by the institutional structures within which they work. By carefully examining adventure and its role in education, teachers can become better able to design and deliver engaging programmes that are underpinned by sound pedagogical principles, and which have deep and enduring meaning for their students.

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189

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Routledge

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1317567137

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9781317567134

Shakespeare's Bastard

The Life of Sir William Davenant

By: Simon Andrew Stirling

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Shakespeare's Bastard

The Life of Sir William Davenant

By: Simon Andrew Stirling

Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) – Poet Laureate and Civil War hero – is one of the most influential and neglected figures in the history of British theatre. He introduced 'opera', actresses, scenes and the proscenium arch to the English stage. Narrowly escaping execution for his Royalist activities during the Civil War, he revived theatrical performances in London, right under Oliver Cromwell's nose. Nobody, perhaps, did more to secure Shakespeare's reputation or to preserve the memory of the Bard. Davenant was known to boast over a glass of wine that he wrote 'with the very spirit' of Shakespeare and was happy to be thought of as Shakespeare's son. By recounting the story of his eventful life backwards, through his many trials and triumphs, this biography culminates with a fresh examination of the vexed issue of Davenant's paternity. Was Sir William's mother the voluptuous and maddening 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and was he Shakespeare's 'lovely boy'?

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347

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The History Press

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0750968567

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9780750968560

Understanding and Teaching Primary Geography

By: Simon Catling,Tessa Willy

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Understanding and Teaching Primary Geography

By: Simon Catling,Tessa Willy

This book outlines how good teaching of primary geography can extend children′s world awareness and help them make connections between their environmental and geographical experiences. Chapters offer guidance on important learning and teaching issues as well as the use and creation of resources from the school environment to the global context. It covers all the key topics in primary geography including: understanding places physical and human geography environmental sustainability learning outside the classroom global issues citizenship and social justice. Summaries, classroom examples and practical and reflective tasks are included throughout to foster understanding and support the effective teaching of primary geography.

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SAGE

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1526451018

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9781526451019

Light Without Heat

The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton

By: David Carroll Simon

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Light Without Heat

The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton

By: David Carroll Simon

Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century England"--

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Cornell University Press

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1501723421

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Rethinking the university

Leverage and deconstruction

By: Simon Wortham

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Rethinking the university

Leverage and deconstruction

By: Simon Wortham

Rethinking the university explores and develops key critical debates in the humanities (concerning, for example, postmodernism, New Historicism, political criticism, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity and deconstruction) in the context of the various crises widely felt to be facing academic institutions. The analysis of the characteristic features of today's university is guided by a close reading of Derrida's work on the question of the academic institution, particularly with regard to the motifs of leverage and disorientation. This important topic has been the subject of heated debate in recent years and Rethinking the university offers clear and concise summaries of current work in the field as well as exploring original and challenging lines of enquiry on a number of issues of contemporary concern. In particular, Wortham argues that while Derrida's image of a university 'walking on two feet' presents us with a potentially paralysing problem, nevertheless it also enables a strong affirmation of the possibilities of academic life, work and effort.

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Manchester University Press

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1526130807

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9781526130808

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

Encountering the City

By: Simon Parker

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Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

Encountering the City

By: Simon Parker

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another. From the foundations of modern urban theory in the work of Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebbvre to the writings of contemporary urban theorists such as David Harvey and Manuel Castells and the Los Angeles school of urbanism, Urban Theory and the Urban Experience traces the key developments in the idea of the city over more than a century. Individual chapters explore investigative studies of the great metropolis from Charles Booth to the contemporary urban research of William J. Wilson, along with alternative approaches to the industrial city, ranging from the Garden City Movement to ‘the new urbanism’. The volume also considers the impact of new information and communication technologies, and the growing trend towards disaggregated urban networks, all of which raise important questions about viability and physical and social identity of the conventional townscape. Urban Theory and the Urban Experience concludes with a rallying cry for a more holistic and integrated approach to the urban question in theory and in practice if the rich potent. For the benefit of students and tutors, frequent question points encourage exploration of key themes, and annotated further readings provide follow-up sources for the issues raised in each chapter. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, practitioners and all those who wish to learn more about why the urban has become the dominant social, economic and cultural form of the twenty-first century

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314

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Routledge

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1136332421

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9781136332425

Ecocriticism and Shakespeare

Reading Ecophobia

By: Simon C. Estok

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Ecocriticism and Shakespeare

Reading Ecophobia

By: Simon C. Estok

This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare.

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Springer

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0230118747

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9780230118744

Good Faith and Insurance Contracts

By: Peter MacDonald Eggers,Simon Picken

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Good Faith and Insurance Contracts

By: Peter MacDonald Eggers,Simon Picken

Good Faith and Insurance Contracts sets out an exhaustive analysis of the law concerning the duty of utmost good faith, as applied to insurance contracts. Now in its fourth edition, it has been updated to address the arrival of the Insurance Act 2015, as well as any references to new case law. In addition, it synthesises all known judicial decisions by the English Courts concerning good faith in this area. This book is still the only text devoted to a discussion of the duty of utmost good faith applicable to insurance contracts. As good faith is an issue which arises in respect of all insurance contracts, it is a book which will be extremely useful to lawyers involved in insurance as well as insurance practitioners.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351984004

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9781351984003

The Myth of Sisyphus

Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility

By: Elliott M. Simon

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The Myth of Sisyphus

Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility

By: Elliott M. Simon

The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the archetypal process of becoming without the consolation of absolute achievement. It is both a poignant reflection of the human condition and a prominent framing text for classical, medieval, and renaissance theories of human perfectibility. In this unique reading of the myth through classical philosophies, pagan and Christian religious doctrines, and medieval and renaissance literature, we see Sisyphus, "the most cunning of human beings," attempting to transcend his imperfections empowered by his imagination to renew his faith in the infinite potentialities of human excellence."--BOOK JACKET

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838641164

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9780838641163

Learning Outside the Classroom

Theory and Guidelines for Practice

By: Simon Beames,Peter Higgins,Robbie Nicol

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Learning Outside the Classroom

Theory and Guidelines for Practice

By: Simon Beames,Peter Higgins,Robbie Nicol

Learning Outside the Classroom outlines theory and practice that will enable and encourage teachers to systematically and progressively incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities in a wide variety of environments and with diverse populations of pupils. This is the first textbook based around the curriculum for prospective and practising primary and secondary teachers and other outdoor educators. The principles and examples presented are intended to be adapted by teachers to suit the needs of their students in ways that draw upon content offered by the local landscape and its natural and built heritage. Although the focus of this book is ‘the real world’ beyond the classroom, it is also about good teaching — wherever it takes place. While there are chapters on practical issues such as risk-management and supervising groups outdoors, the chapters on curriculum, sustainability, curiosity, responsibility, and educational communities will serve as a valuable guide for anyone interested in applying educational theory to practice.

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1136719113

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Book's by Simon Beames

Adventure and Society

Adventure and Society

Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum

Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum

Adventurous Learning

Adventurous Learning

Shakespeare's Bastard

Shakespeare's Bastard

Understanding and Teaching Primary Geography

Understanding and Teaching Primary Geography

Light Without Heat

Light Without Heat

Rethinking the university

Rethinking the university

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

Ecocriticism and Shakespeare

Ecocriticism and Shakespeare

Good Faith and Insurance Contracts

Good Faith and Insurance Contracts

The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus

Learning Outside the Classroom

Learning Outside the Classroom

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