Programming Recreational Services serves as a handbook for recreational practitioners at every level. It clearly presents the methods and materials necessary for the planning, organization, and operation of recreational services. This reader friendly text addresses each of the 12 recreational program categories in detail and includes illustrations to assist with learning. It teaches students a methodology for evaluating recreational programs from the establishment of objectives to the final instrument used, to determine whether or not the program performed in the way that it was intended.
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Weight: 992g
Publication Date: 23 Feb 2010
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780763751982
About Jay S. Shivers
Dr. Jay S. Shivers has been engaged in the practice and study of the field of recreational service for more than 60 years. Along with his distinguished career as an educator and researcher he has professional experience as a program worker supervisor director and administrators in public (community) recreational service treatment centers private clubs and camps. Dr. Shivers was professor and coordinator of the professional preparatory program in recreational service education with primary responsibility for therapeutic recreational service education in the Department of Knesiology School of Education at the University of Connecticut. Active in the field since 1947 he still serves as a consultant expert witness in tort cases concerning recreational safety and continues to write. He is the author of 26 major textbooks numerous articles in refereed journals as well as reports reviews plans and studies all involving the field. He has keynoted at international conferences and symposia in Europe Asia South America North America and Africa.