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    Leisure and human development / Douglas A. Kleiber and Francis A. McGuire, editors.

    Contributor(s): Kleiber, Douglas A [editor.] | McGuire, Francis A [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Urbana, IL] : Sagamore Publishing, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xvii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1571678050; 9781571678058Subject(s): Developmental psychology | Leisure -- Psychological aspects | Play -- Psychological aspects | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Developmental psychology | Leisure -- Psychological aspects | Play -- Psychological aspects | Self-actualization (Psychology)DDC classification: 790.019 LOC classification: BF713 | .K54 2016BF713 | .L435 2016
    Contents:
    1. Introduction -- 2. Developmental theory and leisure -- 3. Play in childhood -- 4. The power of leisure as a developmental context for adolescents -- 5. Where the sidewalk ends: pathways to nature-dependent leisure activities -- 6. Emerging adulthood and leisure -- 7. Technology, leisure, and human development: seeking virture in the virtual -- 8. Time to eat: implications of leisure-based eating for health and development -- 9. Human development in the context of family leisure -- 10. Leisure in middle adulthood -- 11. Leisure in the third age: finding new value in a changing world -- 12. Using leisure to find a way forward after loss: a lifespan perspective -- 13. Possibilities in the study of aging and leisure in late late life.
    Summary: "Leisure and Human Development is an examination of the link between human development and behavior in a context, leisure, that has been described as encompassing one third of people's time. This text examines human development as it affects and is affected by leisure—what people do when they are relatively free to choose their activities. Douglas Kleiber and Francis McGuire, two well respected leisure scholars, developed this book around age-based periods of life." --Publisher's website.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    1. Introduction -- 2. Developmental theory and leisure -- 3. Play in childhood -- 4. The power of leisure as a developmental context for adolescents -- 5. Where the sidewalk ends: pathways to nature-dependent leisure activities -- 6. Emerging adulthood and leisure -- 7. Technology, leisure, and human development: seeking virture in the virtual -- 8. Time to eat: implications of leisure-based eating for health and development -- 9. Human development in the context of family leisure -- 10. Leisure in middle adulthood -- 11. Leisure in the third age: finding new value in a changing world -- 12. Using leisure to find a way forward after loss: a lifespan perspective -- 13. Possibilities in the study of aging and leisure in late late life.

    "Leisure and Human Development is an examination of the link between human development and behavior in a context, leisure, that has been described as encompassing one third of people's time. This text examines human development as it affects and is affected by leisure—what people do when they are relatively free to choose their activities. Douglas Kleiber and Francis McGuire, two well respected leisure scholars, developed this book around age-based periods of life." --Publisher's website.

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