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We make the road by walking: challenging conceptualisations of leisure time for children in poverty [PDF]

, 2015
In this article, we discuss a research project focusing on the ways in which children in poverty spend and experience their leisure time. We argue that the dominant conceptualisation of leisure time participation reduces poverty to a lack of social and ...
Alanen, Angrosino, Attree, Balen, Bogdan, Bohnert, Coussée, Coussée, Dasberg, Dean, Depaepe, Freire, Goldson, Griffiths, Grunwald, Horton, Hsieh, Hämaläinen, Lareau, Lawy, Lister, Lister, Lister, Lloyd, Mayall, Mestrum, Münchmeier, Otto, Patton, Platt, Powell, Qvortrup, Ridge, Ridge, Roets, Siegenthaler, Sutton, Tinkler, Van Regenmortel, Veit-Wilson, Vranken, Vranken, Wijckmans, Zinnecker, Zinnecker   +44 more
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Exploring perceptions for Cyprus as a sustainable golf destination: Motivational and attitudinal orientations of golf tourists [PDF]

, 2013
The study examines the perceptions of golf tourists in Cyprus, focusing on the sustainable character of golf practices through a series of statements that explore their motivation, and the experienced attributes of the Cypriot golf tourist product. Based
Boukas, N, Ziakas, V
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Implementation of Youth Empowerment Services (YES) juvenile justice diversion program: A first‐person account

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Santa Barbara County, the Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Program brought together several government and community‐based organizations, as well as a university‐based evaluation team, to provide pre‐adjudication diversion to youth ages 12 to 17.
Angela Pollard, Jill D. Sharkey, Erin Cross, Karyn Milligan, Michelle Kerwood, Ruby Celio, Andrea Fernandez‐Contreras, Esteban Medina‐Galvan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information activity in serious leisure [PDF]

, 2016
Background. In the past decade, scholars of information science have started to conduct research on information behaviour in serious leisure. Presently, these studies lack common concepts and terms and empirical discoveries are not easy to assemble into ...
Cox, A., Griffin, B., Hartel, J.
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Introduction: looking beyond the walls [PDF]

, 2005
In its consideration of the remarkable extent and variety of non-university researchers, this book takes a broader view of ‘knowledge’ and ‘research’ than in the many hot debates about today’s knowledge society, ‘learning age’, or organisation of ...
A Chapman, A Chapman, A Secord, A Swidler, AD Harvey, C Leadbeater, D Bligh, ED McCarthy, F Barth, F Webster, FM Mims III, G Delanty, G Roberts, G Wells, H Kuklick, H Nowotny, HEFCE, I Tuomi, J Uglow, JS Brown, K Strand, K Thomas, M Castells, M Eraut, M Gibbons, P Burke, P Himanen, P Jarvis, P Scott, R Gross, R Jacoby, R Whitley, RA Stebbins, RA Stebbins, S Fuller, S Fuller, S Fuller, S McNair, S Winchester, S Winchester, T Ferris, TF Gieryn, W Booth   +42 more
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The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
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Game‐based learning for undergraduate consolidation: A qualitative study of how game‐based learning provides much more than knowledge acquisition

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Game‐based learning (GBL) is increasingly used in medical education to supplement traditional didactic learning methods. Adult learners in particular may benefit from GBL, given the autonomous and iterative nature of a well‐designed educational game.
Thomas J. Paddock, Erin P. Fillmore
wiley   +1 more source

Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims, Harriet Lowes‐Belk, Clare Routledge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Volunteers and mega sporting events : developing a research framework [PDF]

, 2007
Interest in all aspects of the politics, financing, planning, management and operation of mega sporting events has been highlighted both by success stories and ongoing problems associated with Olympic Games, Football World Cups and other similar events ...
Baum, T.G., Lockstone, Leonie
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Can We Programme Utopia? The Influence of the Digital Neoliberal Discourse on Utopian Videogames [PDF]

, 2018
This article has a dual purpose. The first is to establish the relationship between videogames and utopia in the neoliberal era and clarify the origins of this compromise in the theoretical dimension of game studies.
Navarrete-Cardero, Luis, Vargas-Iglesias, Juan José   +1 more
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