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Whatever happened to 'recreation'? Changes in New Zealand state leisure policy

, 1995
In this paper we have two concerns: to trace the fate of 'recreation' following the passage of The Sport, Fitness and Leisure Amendment Act 1992, and to locate recent central government initiatives in leisure and recreation within a broader historical ...
Cushman, Grant, Gidlow, Bob, Perkins, Harvey   +2 more
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship between Leisure Activities Demand and Attitudes of Adolescents

, 2010
[[abstract]]Leisure activities help adolescents release pressure and get sound both in mind and body. It also helps adolescents to interact with society and achieve self-realization.
Ya-Se Chu
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Child Health Challenges, Ecosystem Mismatches, and the Case for State‐Level Policy Innovation

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points From 2011‐2023, US children's health deteriorated across >170 indicators. Chronic conditions rose from 25.8% to 31%, risk of anxiety tripled, and autism and learning disability more than doubled. Policies based on biomedical models have failed to address these trends.
NEAL HALFON, SHIRLEY RUSS
wiley   +1 more source

Authentic recreation: living history and leisure

Museum & Society, 2007
This essay considers a postmodern interpretation of the concept of authenticity and a criticism of that interpretation advanced from an ethnographic perspective.
Lain Hart
doaj  

A study of relationship between the personality of an adventure recreation participant and the level of the recreation involvement a care study of survival game

, 2010
[[abstract]]Abstract Recently adventure recreation activities have gained much more attention than ever before. Among all the adventure recreation activities, “survival game” has become more popular; moreover, more civil associations such as, IPSC, CTA ...
YANG JIOU YOU
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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

Leisure and Recreation: A Study of Leisure and Recreation in Their Sociological Aspects

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1949
openaire   +2 more sources

The Research of the Relationship between Leisure Needs and Leisure Constraints for Kindergarten Teachers in Pingtung County

, 2009
[[abstract]]This research is for the purpose of discussing the leisure constraints and the leisure needs of the kindergarten teachers in Pingtung. This research was surveyed by using questionnaires targeted at Pingtung teachers of kindergarten.
Yi-Syuan Wang
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