His research interests include outdoor and environmental education, physical education, curriculum studies and philosophy of education. Conjoining these interests is a focus on philosophical understandings of experience and application of these to various interpretations of educational work. Books published include Education, Experience and Existence: Engaging Dewey, Peirce and Heidegger (Routledge); Understanding Life in School: From Academic Classroom to Outdoor Education (Palgrave Macmillan); John Dewey and Education Outdoors (co-authored with Jayson Seaman, Sense Publishers), Theory and Philosophy in Education Research: Methodological Dialogues (co-edited, Routledge).