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Question 1

What is “Leisure Education” (LE)?

Answer 1

• Defn: A multifaceted, dynamic process of teaching and promoting the exploration of recreation and leisure-related skills, knowledge, attitudes and opportunities. (Dattilo, 2015)
• Ultimately, the goal is to enhance the quality of a person’s life through learning about leisure.

Question 2

WHAT TO BELIEVE ABOUT LEISURE EDUCATION…

Answer 2

1. Leisure Education is potentially for everyone!
2. Leisure Education Models can help focus/direct your LE efforts.
3. Existing Leisure Education activity resources, when used appropriately, can be effective LE tools.
4. Discussion/ debriefing/ processing are key to “education”
5. Leisure Education come in many different shapes and sizes
6. Leisure Education should be
   FUN!
7. Leisure Education can help people reach the goals of experiencing leisure, happiness and flourishing

Question 3

 Recreation

Answer 3

An activity in which people engage primarily for enjoyment, fun and positive emotions during their free time

Question 4

 Free- time–

Answer 4

Unobligated; time not spent in daily tasks associated with obligations or self-maintenance

Question 5

What Prevents People From Experiencing Leisure?

Answer 5

1. Intrapersonal constraints
2. Interpersonal constraints
3. Structural constraints

Question 6

UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS WITH LEISURE EDUCATION:

Answer 6

 Everyone should have opportunities to experience leisure and that leisure contributes to human development

Question 7

A combination of these constraints within and outside of an individual can result in other conditions that prevent people from experiencing leisure:

Answer 7

1. Reactance
2. Learned helplessness
3. Boredom

Question 8

ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT CONSTRAINTS TO LEISURE

Answer 8

Some challenges to leisure are outside our control
Work/school. Family obligations, physical barriers, lack of services
Challenges to leisure CAN be addressed
More dependent on our ability to address constraints than it is depend on the absence of
Addressing challenges to leisure motivates us to participate
Leisure education helps us to address challenges to leisure

Question 9

WHAT CAN LEISURE EDUCATION PROVIDE?

Answer 9

1. Promotes exploration
2. Instills an ethic of positivity and savouring
3. Stimulates self-awareness
4. Promotes acquisition of knowledge and encourages skill development
5. Fosters management of challenges

Question 10

What are Models?

Answer 10

• A representation of a phenomenon or concept they are trying to explain
• Provide an image or a picture of the components of something and how they fit together
• Can help direct practice or services; provide a “blueprint”

Question 11

LE Models

Answer 11

• Several LE models have been developed which have some similarities and some differences
• All have the goal of increasing knowledge and skills associated with leisure participation

Question 12

What are the 4 models

Answer 12

Dattilo’s Leisure Education Model

Stumbo & Peterson’s Leisure Education Content Model

Wittman & Ligon’s Reflection, Recognition & Reaffirmation Model (2011)

Mundy’s leisure education model

Question 13

SIMILARITIES IN THE LEISURE EDUCATION MODELS EXAMINED IN CLASS

Answer 13

• All promote autonomy
• All are easily adaptable / usable with different target groups
• Same end goal
• All models deal with the areas of leisure awareness and self-awareness

Question 14

DIFFERENCES IN THE LEISURE EDUCATION MODELS EXAMINED IN CLASS

Answer 14

• They were all developed in different years and by different professionals
• Dattilo’s model is circular and the rest are square

Question 15

PROCESSING IN LEISURE EDUCATION; processing is ….

Answer 15

 An umbrella term that incudes a variety of techniques
 Designed to help people describe, reflect on, analyze and communicate about experiences
 Designed to help people transfer or generalized what they have learned

Question 16

TYPES OF PROCESSING

Answer 16

FRONTLOADING

2. DEBRIEFING
3. GIVING FEEDBACK
4. USE OF METAPHORS

Question 17

front loading

Answer 17

 Highlighting (loading) the learning prior to (in front of) an activity
 Also called “ pre briefing”
 Sets the stage for what is about to occur and identifies issues to be discussed in debriefing afterwards

Question 18

2. DEBRIEFING

Answer 18

 A process of guided reflection on an experience that occurs after the activity to bring about change
 In a LE session, debriefing may occur after each individual activity or at the end of the session
 Requires careful planning to make questions meaningful and thought-provoking (use open-ended questions)

Question 19

3. GIVING FEEDBACK

Answer 19

 Can be offered at ANYTIME in the LE process
 When used deliberately, can provide people with clear information on their performance
 Should be descriptive, specific, well-intended, directed toward change, well-timed, sincere

Question 20

4. USE OF METAPHORS

Answer 20

 An idea or description used in place of a different idea or description to symbolize similarities between them
 What kind of animal did this activity make you feel most like and explain your choice to the group
 “Chiji Cards” as an example of using metaphors to process an experience

Use positivity, provide a summary an encouragement

Question 21

Why Adapt?

Answer 21

1. To facilitate and/or equalize participation
2. To enhance achievement of program or individual goals and objectives
3. To accommodate operational concerns
4. To provide novelty or variety

Question 22

GENERAL ADAPTATION CONSIDERATIONS

Answer 22

1. Determine necessity of adaptation
2. Match challenge and skills
3. Facilitate independence
4. View adaptations as transitional
5. Ensure safety of adaptations
6. Observe adaptations and make adjustments

Question 23

What aspects of Program can be adapted?

Answer 23

1. Materials (supplies and equipment)
   2. Activities themselves (physical, cognitive and/or social requirements)
   3. Environment in which the activity occurs
   4. Instructional strategies used by leisure educators(establish goals, develop instructional steps, provide chance for practice, prompts, reinforcement, personnel)

Question 24

what should we focus on while adapting to the program?

Answer 24

Person First
Encourage Autonomy
Involve Participants
Evaluate Adaptations