Programming Recreational Services de Jay Sanford Shivers

Programming Recreational Services

Jay Sanford Shivers

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2010

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.

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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.