Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept of Recreation Management and Youth Leadership, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

M.A. / This research report seeks to examine and analyse the role of recreation and leisure in improving the quality of life of women. The critical areas of poverty alleviation and the engendering of self sufficiency and empowerment through appropriate and goal directed programming and strategies will be investigated. Gender relations and hegemonies that govern women's choices will be critically explored with the assumption that women's participation and enjoyment of leisure are dependent on economic capacity and decision making freedom. The underlying aim of recreation is seen to provide an avenue for women to address these inequalities, find means to alleviate poverty, and learn skills for personal growth and enhancement of quality of life. The perceptions that women have of their leisure needs and the constraints to realising those needs are reflective of the amount of, freedom of choice that women are able to exercise. The relationship between freedom to experience leisure and social and ideological constraints to other social aspects of women's lives are important considerations. This research argues that lack of participation in recreational activities is indicative of a range of inequalities experienced by women. Data for this research has been collected from questionnaires and focus groups and contextualised within a feminist framework with a view to effect change in the understanding of recreation's role in the empowerment of women and the establishment of programmes that address inequalities and social problems.

Zugl.: Frankfurt/Oder, Univ. Viadrina, Diss., 2004

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:33:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Heloisa Nogueira Cordeiro.pdf: 271689 bytes, checksum: 5f4f2ec68f92711874ece1b0356da74e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-11-18 / The present work follows the line of research University, Teaching and Teacher Training . It investigates the conceptions of leisure and recreation of students of the Graduate Course in a Department of Physical Education. Today there is great interest in the idea of leisure and recreation, principally in Physical Education courses. Although these studies highly appreciate leisure and recreation as reachable possibilities in the formation of new citizens, we have noted that the contents divulged in these courses are limited to only one field of interest of leisure, physical-sports, ignoring the cultural diversity of the contents that permeate this question. The possibility of establishing multidisciplinary actions about leisure and recreation are therefore lost because of this. This study is based on the conception of leisure and recreation from the point of view of scholars of the Sociology of Leisure like Dumazedier, Heloisa Bruhns, Bramante, H?lder Isayama, Christianne Werneck and especially N?lson Carvalho Marcellino. He is the author of innumerable works about the idea and has contributed a lot to a more humanistic and educative view of leisure. As the methodological perspective of this study we describe it as a qualitative investigation, recognizing that for its objectives this angle would lead us to a better contemplation of the data. Analysis of this data revealed that the conceptions of leisure and recreation of the graduate students are still diffuse, uncritical and very little consistent. / O presente trabalho est? inserido na linha de pesquisa Universidade, Doc?ncia e Forma??o de Professores , e investiga as concep??es de lazer e recrea??o dos discentes do curso de gradua??o de uma faculdade de Educa??o F?sica. Atualmente ? grande o interesse sobre a tem?tica lazer e recrea??o, principalmente nos cursos de Educa??o F?sica. Apesar desses estudos vislumbrarem o lazer e a recrea??o como possibilidades abrangentes na forma??o de um novo cidad?o, notamos que os conte?dos difundidos nesses cursos se restringem a um ?nico campo de interesse do lazer, o f?sico-esportivo, desconhecendo a diversidade cultural dos conte?dos que permeiam essa tem?tica. A possibilidade de se estabelecer a??es multidisciplinares sobre o lazer e a recrea??o se perdem com isso. Este estudo est? fundamentado na concep??o de lazer e recrea??o na vis?o de estudiosos da sociologia do lazer, como Dumazedier, Heloisa Bruhns, Bramante, H?lder Isayama, Christianne Werneck, e, em especial, N?lson Carvalho Marcellino, autor de in?meras obras sobre o tema, e que tem contribu?do muito para uma vis?o mais human?stica e educativa do lazer. Fixamos como perspectiva metodol?gica deste estudo a investiga??o qualitativa, reconhecendo que pelos objetivos esta vertente nos levar? a uma melhor contempla??o dos dados. A an?lise desses dados nos mostra que as concep??es de lazer e recrea??o dos alunos de gradua??o ainda s?o difusas, acr?ticas e poucos consistentes.