Leadership in Recreation

Russell, Ruth V.

Sports & Outdoors

McGraw-Hill Companies

This text blends the theory and skills needed by professionals beginning to work with recreation participants or beginning to supervise staff who do so. It addresses leadership in specific activities and has extensive coverage on leadership competencies that recreation professionals must master to become successful leaders.

Leadership in Recreation, Second Edition

McGraw=Hill

This text introduces the reader to the study of recreation and leisure, the various sub-fields and the leisure services industry. It contains applications in the form of boxes with vignettes, biographies and case studies which show readers how to make the most of leisure in their lives and gives them an understanding of how leisure fits in and contributes to various cultures. The book takes a historical and cross-cultural approach, giving the reader a larger context for understanding modern leisure, how it evolved and how it compares to leisure in other cultures. The chapter on "using leisure to solve problems" contains insights on the relevancy of leisure, and also a section on careers in the field.

Pastimes: The Context of Contemporary Leisure

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Brown & Benchmark Pub

Planning Programs in Recreation

Business & Money

Industries

William C Brown Pub

Leisure Program Planning and Delivery

Human Kinetics Publishers

This is a comprehensive introduction to conducting and using evaluation research. It serves leisure studies students and recreation agency managers by advancing a framework for evaluation and discussing specific tactics for planning, executing, and reporting. Ideas for how to evaluate programs, participant needs, personnel, physical plant, and marketing are featured. The book is pragmatic in writing style and content, building not only an ethic or evaluation-based accountability of leisure services, but also a 'can-do' readiness for actually conducting an evaluation project.

Evaluative Research in Recreation, Park, and Sport Settings: Searching for Useful Information

Riddick, Carol Cutler

Humor & Entertainment

Sagamore Pub Llc

An introductory text that gathers together state of the art information in leisure science and practice, reflecting a wide range of literature from the disciplines of sociology. psychology. economics. political science, and anthropology. More than a text that teaches the foundational meanings and roles of leisure. Pastimes is also a point of view. This text presents leisure as a human phenomenon that is individual and collective, vital for survival, frivolous, historical, contemporary, good, and bad.

Pastimes is an introductory text. It gathers together the state of the art in leisure science and practice, reflecting as well a wide range of literature from the disciplines of sociology, psychology, economics, political science, and anthropology. More than a text that teaches the foundational meanings and roles of leisure, however, Pastimes is also a point of view. This text presents leisure as a human phenomenon that is both individual and collective, vital to survival and frivolous, historical and contemporary, good and bad. There are three main parts. Part one blends philosophy, religious studies, and the humanities in considering leisure as a condition of being human. Not only do chapters 1 through 4 establish the basic definitions and parameters for studying leisure, they ask readers to consider these concepts from their own personal framework. Part two is a focus on leisure's role in creating and reflecting society. Chapters 5 through 8 build on the personal relevancy of leisure discussed in part one and teach about leisure's contemporary cultural significance. These chapters rely on anthropology, sociology, and psychology concepts. Leisure's personal and cultural vitality are brought to a pragmatic conclusion in part three: leisure's use as a social instrument. Material from recreation and park studies is featured in Chapters 9 through 12.

Pastimes: The Context of Contemporary Leisure by Ruth V. Russell (2009-07-22)

Sagamore Publishing LLC

This is primarily a text for undergraduate students preparing for careers in the management of recreation settings. Coverage includes the concepts and skills required to conduct recreational activities and to supervise volunteer and paid staff in recreation agencies and organisations. It can be used for a course on recreation leadership, recreation supervision, or recreation activity methods, and because of its comprehensiveness, the book is also useful as a resource for practising recreation professionals. Examples are drawn widely from outdoor recreation, therapeutic recreation, sport and fitness, adventure settings, municipal services, and hospitality and tourism.

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