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Welcome to the Recreation, Parks, and Tourism 110: Concepts of Leisure. This guide is designed to help you find information in your discipline. By clicking on the tabs located toward the top of the screen, you can find links to encyclopedias, article databases, book catalogs and other library resources.
The primary objective of this session is to retrieve and store scholarly journal articles in leisure studies, especially as they relate to philosophy of leisure. This semester you are going to submit a reflection paper. The reflection paper will combine course concepts and additional sources. The library session is designed to help you with the "additional sources" piece. You are asked to defend if leisure is or is not important for human well-being. And then consider how your answer to this question contributes to your own philosophy of leisure.
An idea or thought, especially a generalized idea of a thing or of a class of things.
Literally "love of wisdom." In the context of this course you are concerned with how leisure fits into your life, the life of your community, country, and world. To be worthwhile, one normally needs to reflect, ponder, discuss, and read other thinkers' ideas on the topic. In this session, you can search for these ideas.
As you search for articles on the philosophy of leisure, keep in mind that the word philosophy may not be in the article. Pehaps your philosophy of leisure relates includes stewardship of the environment. Articles that discuss how recreasion can positively impact the environment might be useful for developing your "philosophy of leisure."
