Programming Recreational Services

Description

Programming Recreational Services serves as a handbook for recreational practitioners at every level. It clearly presents the methods and materials necessary for the planning, organization, and operation of recreational services.

This reader friendly text addresses each of the 12 recreational program categories in detail and includes illustrations to assist with learning. It teaches students a methodology for evaluating recreational programs from the establishment of objectives to the final instrument used, to determine whether or not the program performed in the way that it was intended.

The text also covers:

• Adaptations for persons with disabilities
• Computer applications for use in recreational service - available software and applications, computerized program development, web site development, and scheduling
• Specialized places, facilities, and space standards necessary for recreational activities to occur
• Participation motivation and how to build and sustain participant interest

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I The Nature of Programming
Chapter 1 The Program and its Components
Chapter 2 Demographics: The Population to be Served
Chapter 3 Needs Assessment and Satisfaction
Chapter 4 Adaptation
Chapter 5 Computer Applications in Programming
Chapter 6 The Environment: Natural and Artificial Settings
Chapter 7 Program Development

Part II The Recreational Program Categories
Chapter 8 Art as Experience
Chapter 9 Crafts
Chapter 10 Invitation to the Dance
Chapter 11 The Play’s the Thing
Chapter 12 Education
Chapter 13 Motor Skills
Chapter 14 Aquatic Activities
Chapter 15 The Community Music Program
Chapter 16 Camping and Nature-Oriented Activities
Chapter 17 Practical Nature Science Activities
Chapter 18 Nature Exploration and Trips
Chapter 19 Service Activities
Chapter 20 Social Experiences
Chapter 21 Special Events
Chapter 22 Program Evaluation

Appendix A Useful sources for enhancing the recreational service program by category

About the Author(s)

Dr. Jay S. Shivers has been engaged in the practice and study of the field of recreational service for more than 60 years. Along with his distinguished career as an educator and researcher, he has professional experience as a program worker, supervisor, director, and administrators in public (community) recreational service, treatment centers, private clubs, and camps.

Dr. Shivers was professor and coordinator of the professional preparatory program in recreational service education, with primary responsibility for therapeutic recreational service education, in the Department of Knesiology, School of Education at the University of Connecticut. Active in the field since 1947, he still serves as a consultant, expert witness in tort cases concerning recreational safety, and continues to write. He is the author of 26 major textbooks, numerous articles in refereed journals, as well as reports, reviews, plans, and studies all involving the field. He has keynoted at international conferences and symposia in Europe, Asia, South America, North America, and Africa.