"Take Back Your Time" (TBYT) is a movement founded by John De Graaf (2003) that exposes the issues of time poverty and overwork in the United States and Canada. This article features the process whereby undergraduate students study De Graaf's TBYT handbook, discuss its concepts, and organize a student-led TBYT "teach-in" for…

Big ideas for the future is a joint report by Universities UK and Research Councils UK, published as part of the second annual Universities Week campaign. This new report explores the excellent research taking place in UK higher education today and what it will mean for us in 20 years' time. It demonstrates the value of public investment in higher…

On October 3, 1986, the NRPA-AALR Council on Accreditation for recreation, park resources, and leisure services education was recognized by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation. The story of the eight-year effort to achieve this recognition is summarized. (MT)

Fifty-one baccalaureate degree park and recreation programs have received accreditation from the Council on Accreditation, which is sponsored by the National Recreation and Park Association in cooperation with the American Association for Leisure and Recreation. The accredited programs are listed. (MT)

A canal barge trip involving a group of 11- to 14-year-olds with moderate learning difficulties provided opportunities for leisure education, social skill learning, and information gathering and recording tasks. (CL)

This article describes the continuing professionalization of park and recreation personnel during the past three decades with emphasis on manpower, education, accreditation, and certification. The major vehicles for professionalization are in place, but critical decisions must be made. (MT)

An important area in the learning and development of individuals with disabilities is the acquisition of independent, age-appropriate leisure skills. Three adults with autism and mental retardation were taught to access specific Internet sites using backward chaining and most-to-least intrusive prompting. The number of independent steps completed…

At a school for the deaf, weekly hobby classes encourage use of the right side of the brain. Mini courses have included oil painting, sewing, ceramics, gymnastics, and photography with a stress on such right-brain learning techniques as imaging, sequencing, and manipulating patterns. (CL)

Analysis of tape-recorded responses of 30 blind adults to a 22-question interview showed that most respondents had positive attitudes toward physical education and recreation, but felt that little encouragement had been offered them. Leisure education and counseling for blind persons and recreation personnel can improve physical recreation and…

Two experiments were conducted to increase the initiations and duration of social interactions between autistic and nonhandicapped youths. The youths generalized these social responses to other nonhandicapped peers in the same leisure setting. A second experiment trained a third autistic youth to emit similar social leisure skills. (Author/DB)

Participation in leisure activities may contribute to the development of social, motor, and language skills, and is therefore especially important for children with learning disabilities. Leisure activities of students in educational settings are performed mostly during breaks. While there have been some studies of the effect of breaks on…

Two severely retarded adolescents who participated in self instructional training for increasing a complex social-leisure skill, game playing, learned to perform and verbalize the individual game steps. With minimum prompts and specific dyad training Ss were able to play the three games accurately in both situations. (CL)

I argue in defense of Aristotle's position that contemplation ("theoria") is the proper use of at least some of one's leisure and that, consequently, leisure education must consist in teaching the inclination and capacity for contemplation. However, my position is somewhat more flexible than Aristotle's, in that I allow that there are other…

Describes the uniqueness of older artists, showing how art fulfills the needs of the elderly in the areas of work, leisure, and self-expression. States that art also provides an avenue for providing social acceptance, a product for posterity, and a dream to work toward. Contains 11 photographs. (AEM)

The present connection between parks and recreation education and leisure studies inhibits the training of practitioners for leisure delivery systems as well as the accumulation of knowledge about leisure behavior. Therefore, leisure studies should not be housed with college level programs in parks and recreation education. (Author/MT)