Leisure Education, Community Development, and Populations with Special NeedsAtara Sivan, Hillel Ruskin CABI, 2000 M01 1 - 200 pages The results are presented of a Commission of the World Leisure and Recreation Association (WLRA) to examine the role of leisure and education for leisure activities among people with special needs living in the community, requiring social or health services outside hospital. A conceptual and practical framework for understanding the process of leisure education is provided and its role for community development and populations with special needs discussed. A total of 17 chapters serve as a foundation for developing models and programmes for leisure education within community settings and will be of interest to those working and researching in the area of education, leisure studies and community development. |
Contents
Educating the Community for Developmental Opportunities | 13 |
Leisure Education Serious Leisure and Community Development | 21 |
Conceptual | 31 |
Advocacy and Empowerment for the Right | 55 |
the New Role of Leisure Education | 65 |
Leisure Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities | 85 |
Serious Leisure for People with Disabilities | 101 |
Toward the Concept | 119 |
Establishing a Multipurpose Model for the Rehabilitation | 143 |
Practical Approaches to Leisure Education for the Elderly | 169 |
Index | 191 |
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Page 4 - Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.
Page 4 - The preparation of the child for responsible life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of sexes, and friendship among all peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups and persons of indigenous origin; e The development of respect for the natural environment.
Page 22 - Serious leisure is the systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist or volunteer activity that participants find so substantial and interesting that, in the typical case, they launch themselves on a career centered on acquiring and expressing its special skills, knowledge and experience.
Page 4 - States Parties agree that the education of the child shall be directed to: a. the development of the child's personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential; b.
Page 4 - ... the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts. 2. States Parties shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and shall encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activity.
Page 44 - We shall consider a community to be that combination of social units and systems which perform the major social functions having locality relevance. This is another way of saying that by "community" we mean the organization of social activities to afford people daily local access to those broad areas of activity which are necessary in day-to-day living.
Page 23 - They are self-actualization, selfenrichment, self-expression, regeneration or renewal of self, feelings of accomplishment, enhancement of self-image, social interaction and belongingness and lasting physical products of the activity (eg a painting, a scientific paper, a piece of furniture1.
Page 1 - Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment.
Page 23 - ... activity requiring little or no special training to enjoy it (Stebbins 1997). Its types include play (including dabbling), relaxation (eg sitting, napping, strolling), passive entertainment (eg TV, books, recorded music), active entertainment (eg games of chance, party games), sociable conversation, and sensory stimulation (eg sex, eating, drinking). It is considerably less substantial and offers no career of the sort just described for serious leisure. Casual leisure can also be defined residually...
Page 67 - And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.