One of the greatest challenges facing human-service agencies today is how to meet the multifaceted needs of diverse clients and participants. This book is about that challenge. Diversity and the Recreation Profession brings together the voices of academic professionals to discuss diversity issues and approaches to solve them, and will act as a springboard for more comprehensive and meaningful discussions. This edition not only updates information and resources for effective organizational approaches to diversity, it also expands the creative concepts and consistent message of why diversity remains critical for organizational and community success. A supplemental PowerPoint presentation and an instructors' guide are available upon request.
This book brings scholars and professional leaders together to provide a unique and comprehensive discussion of the journey toward greater diversity and multiculturalism in recreation policies and programs. Diversity and the Recreation Profession: Organizational Perspectives is about the challenges human-service agencies encounter when trying to meet the needs of their diverse clients and participants.
Designed for undergraduates and practitioners who wish to apply evaluation research to their efforts, this book will enable the reader to practice and apply evaluation research concepts and techniques. This new edition includes more outcome-based evaluation, the use of the Internet for data collection, the relationship between research and evaluation, and updated information about computer packages for analysis of qualitative and quantitative data.
This book represents a compilation of what is known about the marketing of recreation and leisure experiences. Intended for both beginner and more advanced marketers, Experience Marketing: Strategies for the New Millennium engages the reader in a process of discovery to determine a preferred course for improved marketing approaches in diverse settings.
The authors have combined their decades of experience leading workshops and events for the widest range of groups and settings to produce a handbook of leadership through playful interaction. More than a theoretical guide, The Game and Play Leader's Handbook is a practical guide to how leaders can get fun to happen with real people in real situations.
The 500-plus activities in Group Games and Activity Leadership are intended to be used as a reference or guide in planning larger group activities. Some of the activities are new. Others have been played in neighborhoods and on playgrounds when we were children and in parks by our parents and grandparents.
This new edition presents a substantially revised and updated guide to internship preparations, including resumes, cover letters, electronic and traditional print approaches, and interview techniques and tips. This valuable resource also includes a comprehensive list of internship-related and job-related websites as well as exercises and questions.
The 169 activities in this resource are meant to help professionals serving at-risk youth establish active treatment goals for the youth and move them toward more positive behaviors. The activities and goals are written in a format that staff — from volunteers and childcare workers to activity staff and professional therapeutic recreation specialists — can use when implementing intervention activities for at-risk youth.
This text focuses on the growing and changing meanings of recreation and leisure services in communities. Underlying any recreation service is the mandate to address the meanings of leisure and to examine inclusion and social justice as vital components of the quality of life. This book addresses all sectors of this field, including public, not-for-profit, and private commercial entities.
Leadership is one of the keystones of successful parks, recreation, and leisure services agencies, organizations, and programs. How we deal with people, how we interact with fellow staff, supervisors, participants, and the general public all make an incredible statement about who we are and what our profession is about. This book is designed to help students of leadership begin (or renew) their personal journey toward leadership.
The premise of this book is simple: to explore leisure within Canadian society. The goals of this book are to expose the reader to the many roles played by leisure and the ways in which Canadians take part, and to explore what this means for leisure providers. As you will see, leisure is a complex and far-reaching phenomenon.
This book is the culmination of a 20-year inquiry into the nature and meaning of academic life. An enduring passion for academic life has sustained all the authors. While some have migrated into administration, others have remained teaching professors and scholars. This book should be read by every graduate student who wants to follow in their footsteps.
Managing to Optimize the Beneficial Outcomes of Recreation focuses on explaining what Outcomes-Focused Management (OFM) is, why it should be applied more widely to the management of recreation and related amenity resources and programs that are managed by public agencies, as well as how such management can and should be done. This text provides detailed instructions on how to implement OFM and describes successful real-world applications of OFM in policy development and management by different park and recreation agencies.
This textbook covers the many things to consider, the many issues to face, and shows how marketing decision-making can be less frightening and risky than a roller-coaster ride, yet features all the thrills and enjoyment associated with marketing in leisure and tourism.
These case studies provide cutting-edge information about innovative programs, facilities and management practices that are setting the pace in municipal recreation and park services. From successful "contracting out" to creative partnerships to new ways to reach at-risk youth, this new book provides up-to-the-minute information about where municipal recreation and park services are headed and how to get there.
Award-winning park scientist, administrator, and lecturer, Will LaPage challenges us in Parks for Life to reconsider the role of our public parklands in the twenty-first century. Can our parks do far more than we have traditionally expected of them? Can they help build respect for life; expand our appreciation of our vital interconnections; contribute to peace and justice; improve the health of our bodies and communities; and assist in reducing problems of homelessness, crime, and poverty? The answer is a resounding yes — if we are willing to revise park management's paradigms.
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.
Planning Parks for People has been extensively upgraded, revised and greatly expanded from its original 1987 edition. This second edition will continue to enlighten and inform the readers about what works and what doesn't in the design of today's parks. With more than 600 photographs and illustrations as well as a "how-to" approach, this text offers examples of the good and the bad in park design, as well as axioms, guidelines, and specific illustrations of what to do and what not to do.
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.
The goal of this book is to facilitate increased knowledge about who youth are, why they do what they do, and how to facilitate their development through recreation. The authors hope to challenge and inspire readers so that they undertake efforts to make a difference in youths' lives through recreation. Readers will be confronted with new perspectives, and hopefully will discuss and debate these and other issues.
The approach to decision making throughout this edition of Recreation Economic Decisions is that of the decision maker who considers the benefits and costs of alternative recreation activities and programs, then chooses the most beneficial one possible at the lowest possible cost. This text — written for college students who are preparing to become managers of parks and recreation areas, forests, wildlife, and related natural resources — emphasizes all practical aspects of benefits and costs in recreation resource analysis.
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.
