Defining Rec and Leisure
This type of recreation activity generally needs minimal equipment, resources, and does not require a lot of effort for the participant.
What is a passive activity?
This includes all the recreation and leisure activities we participate in throughout our life course.
What is our Leisure Repertoire?
These are the five levels of the Social Ecological Model, moving from the innermost to the outermost level.
What are individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and public policy?
The CPRA Framework is helpful for recreation practitioners in Canada as if provides these things.
What are a shared vision, common language, guides decisions, etc?
These are the three sectors of recreation.
What are public, private, and not-for-profit?
These are examples of stage of life factors that can impact our recreation and leisure participation?
What are having kids, professional responsibility, relationship status, etc?
The SEM represents how an individual and their surrounding social environments interact to influence this in recreation and leisure.
What is a person’s participation?
These are the five goals of the Framework for Recreation in Canada.
What are Active Living, Inclusion and Access, Connecting People and Nature, Supportive Environments, and Recreation Capacity?
These are the three categories we think about when looking at howe we spend a 24-hour day.
There are four phases we generally move through during our life course - establishment, preparation, culmination, and maturity. This is the phase you are in now.
What is the Establishment phase?
A recreation program shapes a participant’s experiences, while the participant’s feedback shapes the program. This describes this type of relationship within the SEM.
What is a reciprocal relationship?
This Framework goal focuses on ensuring people have places and spaces that support recreation participation.
What is Supportive Environments?
This is a primary way to determine which sector of recreation a facility or organization falls under.
What is funding source?
When we are programming for any age group, we want to consider these three developmental domains.
What are physical, cognitive, and socioemotional?
A beginner gains confidence because a friend joins them at a dance class. These two SEM levels interact to influence their participation.
What are the individual and interpersonal levels?
A municipality offers reduced program fees and adapted equipment so more residents can participate. These actions most directly support this Framework goal.
What is Inclusion and Access?
This is the key defining difference between leisure and recreation.
What is the reason/intention behind why you participate in an activity?
This life cycle factor is often thought to be the most influential to our leisure behaviours, but that is in fact an incorrect assumption.
What is age?
A university partners with a municipal recreation centre to offer discounted student memberships, making participation more affordable. This partnership represents this SEM level.
What is the community level?
A recreation department invests in staff training and volunteer leadership development to strengthen its ability to deliver services. These actions most directly support this Framework goal.
What is Recreation Capacity?