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Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers
No full textThe Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers contain the professional and personal records of archaeologist, journalist, and author Samuel Dorris Dickinson
Exploring the Nature of Pre and Post Flow in Serious Leisure
No full textThis chapter explores the nexus between the flow theory and the serious leisure perspective
Transforming Assessment in Higher Education - If not now?
No full textWith the launch of Transforming Assessment: a guide to the Advance HE Framework, author Sam Elkington, Principal Lecturer for Learning and Teaching Excellence at Teesside University, discusses how it is timely to seek transformational change in higher education assessment
What it is to take the flow of leisure seriously
No full textAssociations made between serious leisure and flow have until now remained theoretical, conceptually linking the two. Returning to the experiences themselves, to the actual experiencing of flow, this article draws upon an exploratory study into the intricacies of flow-based serious leisure experience (Elkington, S. (2006). Exploring the nature of pre- and post-flow in serious leisure. In S. Elkington, I. Jones, & L. Lawrence (Eds.), Serious leisure: Extensions and applications (pp. 145–159). Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association; Elkington, S. (2008). The need for theoretical originality when taking the flow of leisure seriously. In P. Gilchrist & B. Wheaton (Eds.), Whatever happened to the leisure society? Theory, debate and policy (pp. 135–164). Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association; Elkington, S. (2010). Articulating a systematic phenomenology of flow: An experience-process perspective. Leisure/Loisir, 34, 327–260) of participants from one activity characteristic of Stebbins's amateur, hobbyist and career volunteer serious leisure categories, namely amateur actors, hobbyist table tennis players and voluntary sports coaches. This initial foray into examining flow in serious leisure has revealed that each activity is capable of generating flow and does so in terms unique to it, evoking the affinity of serious leisure activity for flow experience and the discovery that both serious leisure and flow are not disparate frameworks, but are structurally and experientially mutually reinforcing, producing strong evidence that experiencing the qualities of flow is what makes their leisure most rewarding and experienced as optimal
Transforming Assessment in Higher Education - If not now?
No full textWith the launch of Transforming Assessment: a guide to the Advance HE Framework, author Sam Elkington, Principal Lecturer for Learning and Teaching Excellence at Teesside University, discusses how it is timely to seek transformational change in higher education assessment
Portrait of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster with academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster and academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Reading Landscapes::Articulating a non-essentialist representation of space, place and identity in leisure
No full textThe decision to use the word landscape in the title of this volume was not taken lightly. It is, after all, a famously awkward term to pin down, and like place, space and location, has many interpretations and meanings. The primary reason it was chosen was that it illustrated the breadth and variety that particularly space and place play in our experiences of leisure. Of course the problem with taking this viewpoint is that many definitions of landscape imply that landscape can only be encountered from the outside and usually from a distance. But in order to gain some kind of perspective we need to step back and appreciate the complexity of the vista. In the same way that space and place can be understood and analysed from both subjective and objective stances — so too can landscape. Therefore, although the idea of landscape suggests distance, it also encourages reflection and exploration. ‘Landscape’ as Tuan so eloquently puts it, ‘allows and even encourages us to dream. It does function as a point of departure. Yet it can anchor our attention because it has components that we can see and touch’ (1977:101). Furthermore, we can travel through landscapes and encounter the many spaces and places they hold, whilst gazing back to the landscape from which we came. This interaction between leisure spaces and places and its consequent impact on identity acts as the primary focus of this text, but requires further discussion in order to reveal its many implications
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