English | 2019 | Original PDF | 10 MB | 493 Pages
J. Robert Rossman, Barbara Elwood Schlatter, 1571679464, 1571679472, 2019937508, 9781571679468, 9781571679475, 9781571679482, 978-1571679468, 978-1571679475, 978-1571679482, 978-1-57167-946-8, 978-1-57167-947-5, 978-1-57167-948-2
Recreation Programming: Designing,
Staging, and Managing the Delivery of Leisure Experiences incorporates
information and techniques based on current knowledge about experiencing
leisure and the current professional techniques and practices that
programmers need to learn and master to design, stage, evaluate, and
manage leisure experiences in any organization including government,
commercial, and not-for-profit agencies. This eighth edition teaches the
programmer to design and stage program services by learning the theory
and techniques of recreation programming including (1) basic leisure
theory that explains how leisure is experienced; (2) the generic
structure of situated activity systems in which social interaction
produces leisure experiences; (3) how programs are designed; and (4)
procedures and techniques that programmers use to stage, evaluate, and
manage recreation programs in a variety of agencies.