AHSC 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Presentation Of A Group, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
22 Aug 2017
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Course outline: welcome to leisure education ahsc 350, name & your favourite leisure activity, during the semester: Introduction: reflection journals (6, research assignment, leisure education game, group presentation, self/group/professor evaluation. Typically defined as an activity, e. g. board games, biking. Generally some form of organized activity intended for social ends (kelly, 1990). Intended as beneficial for society, organized & supported with the expectation of such benefits: enjoyment, satisfaction, decrease failure, decrease rejection, decrease helplessness, ex: recreation for elderly people who cannot move a lot. Free time: time not spent in tasks- obligations, not necessarily leisure as could be, devalued if associated with leisure. The popular assumption is that no skills are involved in enjoying free time, and that anybody can do it. Yet the evidence suggests the opposite: free time is more difficult to enjoy than work. Leisure education is: enable individuals to enhance quality of life (qol) through leisure.
