
An Introduction to Leisure Studies
Principles and Practice
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. November 2014
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4129-1874-9 (ISBN)
Description
"There are textbooks galore, but there aren't many crafted as intelligently as this one. This book will change the way that students understand leisure. It will give them an easier entry to that place where difficult ideas fuse into something intelligible, where real understanding sits and the educated imagination is stirred."
- Tony Blackshaw, Sheffield Hallam University
Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg provide a foundation for those studying within the broad field of leisure studies. The book gives students an accessible and engaging introduction to leisure studies and leisure research, encouraging students to engage in reflexive analysis of their common sense understandings of everyday life and enabling them to develop an understanding of contemporary leisure studies and changing leisure practices.
- Tony Blackshaw, Sheffield Hallam University
Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg provide a foundation for those studying within the broad field of leisure studies. The book gives students an accessible and engaging introduction to leisure studies and leisure research, encouraging students to engage in reflexive analysis of their common sense understandings of everyday life and enabling them to develop an understanding of contemporary leisure studies and changing leisure practices.
Reviews / Votes
There are textbooks galore, but there aren't many crafted as intelligently as this one. This book will change the way that students understand leisure. It will give them an easier entry to that place where difficult ideas fuse into something intelligible, where real understanding sits and the educated imagination is stirred. -- Tony Blackshaw In keeping with exploring the central theme of each chapter, relevant and contemporary case studies and exemplars have been included to allow students to engage with the material. Students will like these as will tutors as they can be used as a focus for discussion. Overall this book does achieve its aims, however this is not an introductory textbook that students will pick up and read through in the one go. This is a thought provoking book that students will return to in later years of their course and it will be used to stimulate ideas for project and dissertation work. -- Rita Carmouche, University of HuddersfieldMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
604 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-1874-9 (9781412918749)
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Content
Defining Leisure and Leisure Studies
Studying and Measuring Leisure
Time, History and Leisure
Caution - Children at Play
Growing Up and Getting Out
Staying in and Settling Down
Divided Leisure: Leisure and Social Class
Turning Points
Home Alone: Demography and Ageing
Leisure and the Future
Studying and Measuring Leisure
Time, History and Leisure
Caution - Children at Play
Growing Up and Getting Out
Staying in and Settling Down
Divided Leisure: Leisure and Social Class
Turning Points
Home Alone: Demography and Ageing
Leisure and the Future