This text containing 24 chapters examines many current issues in the contemporary study of leisure. It features 33 debates concerning key issues around which leisure studies will be focused as we enter the 21st century.
Although many gains have been made in understanding women's leisure, much remains to be learned. This social-psychological analysis of women and their leisure from feminist perspectives provides information about women and the issues that surround both the gains and gaps associated with the construct we commonly call leisure.
The goals of this book are threefold. The first objective is to lay out a series of "local maps," at a fine scale, of what we know about specific aspects of constraints to leisure after 25 years of attention. The second purpose is to integrate this knowledge by moving sufficiently far back from the detail to provide a sort of continental-scale view, perhaps a satellite image, of the constraints to leisure "topography." The third goal is to use these maps to chart journeys in the future.
Dimensions of Choice (Second Edition) is an introductory text on the philosophy, theory, methods, and techniques applied to interpretive research and qualitative approaches in parks, recreation, tourism, sport, and leisure (PRTSL). This book contains many of the basic (but rethought) premises of the first edition and is expanded to include new issues such as reflexivity, computer aids, linking and mixed methods, evaluating research reports, and other emerging forms of data collection, analysis, and data presentations.
This book traces the evolution in thought concerning leisure and its role in society from its birth in ancient Athens through the Industrial Revolution to modern society. An ideal textbook for a philosophy of recreation and leisure course.
The CD-ROM version of The Leisure Diagnostic Battery software has been updated and revised and contains installation options for Windows and Macintosh systems. The Users Manual (previously available as a separate purchase) is included on the CD in a PDF format.
Given the accelerating change in our world, it seems leisure will be changed for those in both the modern and developing worlds. This book presents 66 discussion topics with Issue Questions and Implications for Leisure to allow the readers to become aware of and investigate trends that could influence leisure and leisure services, and anticipate potential impacts these trends and issues may have.
Leisure in Your Life: New Perspectives takes a fresh approach to understanding leisure through the use of dozens of brief statements from diverse people commenting on some aspect of leisure in their lives. This device, combined with professionally designed PowerPoint presentations for each chapter, adds new perspectives to the approach taken by the previous editions of this best-selling book.
In this edited volume, Edgar L. Jackson and Thomas L. Burton have attempted no less than an assessment of what is known about recreation and leisure at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This book represents the only comprehensive statement of what is known about recreation and leisure as the twenty-first century begins, with its heightened potential to create a world in which such knowledge is critical to human well-being.
The Organizational Basis of Leisure Participation shows that studying the social organization of leisure can be wonderfully fruitful, and lead to numerous insights about why people participate in leisure, in general, and certain leisure activities, in particular. This book challenges researchers and students alike to consider further study of the influence and structure of organizations as a basis for leisure participation, especially those studying or planning research in the fields of leisure, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, disability studies, and volunteer and citizen participation.
The Pivotal Role of Leisure Education weaves together the main strands of a manifesto on leisure education — conceived of broadly as counselling, volunteering, and instruction — as a main way to enhance the lives of people who feel their leisure lifestyle is inadequate or even nonexistent. When it comes to improving the human condition, leisure education has a pivotal role to play in enriching people's lives.
Planning for Recreation and Parks Facilities: Predesign Process, Principles, and Strategies is divided into six sections that systematically progress through the planning process from basic principles to goal setting, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and reporting.
Meeting the needs of customers through effective recreation programs is imperative for leisure service organizations to survive and prosper in the 21st century. The servant leadership approach — based on the premise that all recreation providers serve their customers through programs — simultaneously enhances the personal growth of individuals and improves the quality and caring of our many institutions through a combination of teamwork and community, personal involvement in decision making, and ethical and caring behavior. This book provides both cutting-edge concepts and practical knowledge for successful, professional programming in parks, recreation, and leisure services.
Programming for Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Services: A Servant Leadership Approach (Third Edition) retains its user-friendly approach and servant leadership foundation. It includes updated material in all chapters, and additional material about social entrepreneurship and strategic planning. In addition, the theory chapter has been reorganized with theory to practice boxes throughout the book, programmer profiles have also been added to each chapter, to introduce students to recreation programmer in a variety of positions.
This title continues the tradition of examining how change reshapes recreation and leisure in our society, and the challenges to recreation, park, and leisure services which accompany such changes. Ideal for an issues or senior seminar course, this book also challenges recreation, park, and leisure service professionals to rethink what they are about. This book has found a unique place in leisure literature.
A Social Psychology of Leisure is written to serve as a textbook for undergraduate students taking a course in the psychological and social aspects of leisure and recreation. This text presents material simply, yet without oversimplifying, and illustrates basic principles with enthusiasm for the field. No previous course in general social psychology is required with this text.
Tourism and Society approaches the subject of tourism primarily from the perspectives of sociology and social and cultural anthropology, although it does address issues and problems effecting tourism which are economic, geographical, and political as well. In reviewing, synthesizing, and commenting on the tourism literature of the past 40 years, Robert Wyllie has struck a balance between critical and defensive viewpoints, encouraging readers to draw their own conclusions on the issues.
