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Recreation policies and programs for new immigrants to Canada [PDF]
, 2008 In this thesis I explored, through document analysis and interviews, how community recreation leaders can create supportive environments for participation and address barriers that negatively impact participation in leisure based physical activity among ...
Golob, Matias Ignacio
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Physical Fit: The Role of Sports in Elite Hiring in Norway
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sports participation serves as an important marker of elite distinction that is useful for getting in and getting on in elite workplaces. However, much of the work on the stratifying power of sports in the workplace has focussed on highly unequal societies, like the United Kingdom and the United States, and workplaces within the economic elite.
Lisa M. B. Sølvberg, Lauren A. Rivera
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De‐municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView., 2023 This paper analyses how the period of austerity 2010–2019 affected public parks in English cities using the notion of de‐municipalisation to frame the discussion. The paper identifies an experimental ‘shaking up’ of park governance, away from local authorities and with greater involvement from national‐level NGOs. Changes also involved a ‘breaking down’
Andrew Smith +2 more
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Restoring Meaning through Leisure: Exploring the Benefits of Leisure-Focused Occupational Therapy for Individuals with Neurological Diagnoses [PDF]
There are limited findings in occupational therapy literature on leisure, despite being a highly meaningful area of occupation that has implications for both physical and mental health. This poster describes an occupational therapy Capstone experience in
Stoutland, Elizabeth Rose
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К разработке основ психологии рекреации [PDF]
, 2018 Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionarytime. The "need to do something for recreation" is an essential element of human biology and psychology.
Арпентьева, М. Р.
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Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the ‘Black Box’ of Student Employment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Students comprise approximately four per cent of the UK labour force and as much as 20% in some occupations and jobs. Yet students' work is typically seen as marginal, secondary both to their current learning and future working biographies. Public and media attention on ‘earning while learning’ (EwL) tends to focus on the negative impacts of ...
Mia Ruijie Zhong +5 more
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Tiempo libre: esparcimiento y recreación como dimensiones del bienestar en la frontera norte de México [PDF]
, 2011 This work presents results from two studies that took place in 2006 in Mexicali and Tijuana, Baja California, México, where leisure and recreation were considered as dimensions of well-being, which is valued based on what the subjects that participated ...
Guadalupe de los Ángeles Ortega Villa +2 more
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Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper conceives the adoption and development of artificial intelligence by businesses as a strategy within the economic field. Using a survey of over 2000 businesses in the UK and tools of geometric data analysis, I construct a model of the British economic field and project into it indicators ...
Will Atkinson
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An Integrative Review of Youth Development Research in Selected United States Recreation Journals [PDF]
, 2008 Youth have been a focus of recreation and leisure programmers for over a century. During that time, assumptions have been made about the value of recreation for young people.
Bocarro, Jason +2 more
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Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, EarlyView.Abstract The benefits of recreational reading for academic success are clear. However, the full potential of recreational reading for socialisation and well‐being remains untapped by young readers. Studies of young readers' recreational reading intentions and perceived barriers to translating intentions into reading are scarce. Deaf and hard‐of‐hearing
Zhuzhuna Gviniashvili
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