Community Recreation: A Guide to Its Organization

NOTA PESSOAL: Este livro – da autoria de Harold Diedrich Meyer, Charles Kestner Brightbill e Hanson Douglas Sessoms – é uma das obras mais importantes para a história do turismo. Este exemplar pertenceu à biblioteca da University of the West of England, mais conhecida como UWE Bristol. Num processo de renovação da biblioteca, o livro foi retirado e colocado à venda. Foi adquirido pelo meu pai, na época empenhado na redação da sua tese de doutoramento.

Preface
«Since the first edition of Community Recreation was published in 1948, the recreation movement has advanced rapidly in this country and throughout the world. Every indication notes that its progress will be even more rapid and widespread in the future. While the philosophy and principles of community recreation remain basically as they were, the conditions, approaches, methods, and contents change with changing times and a changing culture. This fourth edition of what has become a standard text in the study of community recreation recognizes these changes and provides information which the authors hope will be helpful to the reader. And while the wealth of new material which has been added is applicable to the immediate present, it has also been weighed with an eye to the future.
The responsibility for organized recreation rests in the local community. Here recreation under public, private, and commercial auspices has its roots. In neighborhoods, villages, towns, cities, districts, and counties, organized recreation is closely associated with the people. Community planning and action are the order of the day. Community recreation is not spontaneous; it requires planning, organization, administration, development, and intelligent evaluation. It has been demonstrated repeatedly that community recreation, adequately and properly organized, contributes to the building of sound physical and mental health, to the molding of democratic citizenship and character, to the amelioration of delinquency and crime and other aspects...»

Contents
I BACKGROUND
1 History of Early and Modern Recreation and Leisure
2 The Theory, Philosophy, and Principles of Leisure, Play, and Recreation – Recreation as a Social Force
3 The Economic Significance of Recreation
4 Recreation Potentials and Unequal Situations
II RECREATION AND GOVERNMENT
5 Government and Urban Affairs
6 County and District Organization for Town and Country
7 Recreation – A Function of State Government
8 The Federal Government and Recreation
9 Recreation Among Nations
III RECREATION AND THE SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
10 Recreation and the Community
11 The Family and Its Recreation
12 The School and Recreation
13 Religious Organizations and Recreation
IV RECREATION IN OTHER SETTINGS
14 The Voluntary Youth-Serving Agencies
15 Employee Recreation
16 Commercial Recreation Interests
17 Organized Camping and Outdoor Education
V RECREATION FOR SPECIAL GROUPS
18 Therapeutic Recreation: The Ill and Disabled
19 Recreation for Later Maturity
20 The Delinquent
VI EPILOGUE
21 Organizations Serving the Recreation and Park Movement
22 Administration
23 The Future
Appendix
Index

• Encadernação: capa dura
• Ano: 1969 (4.ª ed)
• Páginas: 456
• Dimensões: 23,4 x 16 cm