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Barbara Humberstone

Researcher at Buckinghamshire New University

Publications -  60
Citations -  1240

Barbara Humberstone is an academic researcher from Buckinghamshire New University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Outdoor education & Adventure education. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 59 publications receiving 1114 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara Humberstone include Northumbria University & University of Southampton.

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Embodiment and social and environmental action in nature-based sport: spiritual spaces

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the interrelationship of space, the elements and the embodied experiences of water-based physical activity, and propose body pedagogics as analytically useful in exploring social and environmental action in local and global spaces.
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The ʻOutdoor Industryʼ as Social and Educational Phenomena:Gender and Outdoor Adventure/Education

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss social and cultural theory and tracts the ways in which gender has been conceptualized and suggest that outdoor adventure/education, like other dimensions of society, can usefully be subjected to critical examination.
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Researching women and sport

TL;DR: Clarke and Humberstone as mentioned in this paper discussed the relationship between physical activity and social power in women's sport and sport, and highlighted the importance of physical activity for women in sport.
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A battle for control: exchanges of power in the subculture of snowboarding

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of commercialization on a snowboarding subculture from a participant perspective was examined from a semi-structured interview with boarders and skiers at a resort in British Columbia, Canada.
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An ethnography of the outdoor classroom – how teachers manage risk in the outdoors

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the approaches to risk that some teachers adopt when they are involved in facilitating outdoor activities and argued that this had a negative impact on the educational process by taking away opportunities for learning from the children.