Stephen C Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5857521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen C Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen C |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How park and recreation agencies engage in community development
This study described park and recreation agency directors' attitudes towards their agencies' engagement in community development. Two hundred eighty-nine park and recreation administrators were surveyed. A questionnaire measured community development related to participants' attitudes, types, approaches, importance and engagement. Results indicated administrators believed parks and recreation are used for community development and that park and r…
Leisure behaviour of the Amish
Imagine a life with no mobile phones, computers, televisions or cars. The Amish have existed for almost 300 years with such austerity. How do the Amish remain so grounded in their beliefs and culture? In an effort to gain a better understanding of the Amish, the first author lived with an Old Order Amish family and studied the Amish way of life, focusing on their leisure behaviour. Religion influences every aspect of their lives, most notably lei…
Recreation and the Glenview Neighborhood
The purpose of this interpretive study was to explore the voices of the ecological agents surrounding the youth of Glenview, a low-resource neighborhood. The research focused on a phenomenon that involved the establishment and discontinuation of a community organization effort to provide structured recreation programs for youth. Theoretical frameworks of the ecological perspective and community social organization guided the study. Twenty-one par…
Empowering Female Offenders
More than two thirds of the female inmates of prisons in the United States are recidivists. This article presents recommendations for rein tegrating female inmates into the community on the basis of the findings of a 1993 study of female offenders in the Oklahoma correc tional system. The implementation of these recommendations is dis cussed in the context of five dimensions of an empowerment social work practice model
Tone in Five Languages of Cameroon
https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/8693
Studying leisure perceptions
Research into perceptions of leisure has, with few exceptions, followed the traditional scientific paradigm of inquiry. This paper considers some of the difficulties associated with this positivistic approach. Topics addressed include the gap between research efforts and theory development, the parsimonious nature of positivism, and the assumptions about reality necessary for traditional inquiry. An expanded methodological approach, compatible wi…
Cognitive Structures of Adolescent Leisure Behavior
The study examines the perceptions adolescents have of their leisure behavior. It was motivated by a need to understand the increasing prevalence of what Curtis (1988) terms “Purple Recreation” or negative leisure in this age group. Two hundred and fifty two adolescents from a high school in southwestern Ontario responded to a computerized instrument that prompted them to indicate the degree of similarity of all possible pairs of a list of 20 lei…
Effects of a Recreation Program on the Social Interaction of Mentally Retarded Adults
Therapeutic Recreation Service
Recreation and the Glenview Neighborhood
The purpose of this interpretive study was to explore the voices of the ecological agents surrounding the youth of Glenview, a low-resource neighborhood. The research focused on a phenomenon that involved the establishment and discontinuation of a community organization effort to provide structured recreation programs for youth. Theoretical frameworks of the ecological perspective and community social organization guided the study. Twenty-one par…
Leisure behaviour of the Amish
Imagine a life with no mobile phones, computers, televisions or cars. The Amish have existed for almost 300 years with such austerity. How do the Amish remain so grounded in their beliefs and culture? In an effort to gain a better understanding of the Amish, the first author lived with an Old Order Amish family and studied the Amish way of life, focusing on their leisure behaviour. Religion influences every aspect of their lives, most notably lei…
Studying leisure perceptions
Research into perceptions of leisure has, with few exceptions, followed the traditional scientific paradigm of inquiry. This paper considers some of the difficulties associated with this positivistic approach. Topics addressed include the gap between research efforts and theory development, the parsimonious nature of positivism, and the assumptions about reality necessary for traditional inquiry. An expanded methodological approach, compatible wi…
Empowering Female Offenders
More than two thirds of the female inmates of prisons in the United States are recidivists. This article presents recommendations for rein tegrating female inmates into the community on the basis of the findings of a 1993 study of female offenders in the Oklahoma correc tional system. The implementation of these recommendations is dis cussed in the context of five dimensions of an empowerment social work practice model
How park and recreation agencies engage in community development
This study described park and recreation agency directors' attitudes towards their agencies' engagement in community development. Two hundred eighty-nine park and recreation administrators were surveyed. A questionnaire measured community development related to participants' attitudes, types, approaches, importance and engagement. Results indicated administrators believed parks and recreation are used for community development and that park and r…
Therapeutic Recreation Service
Effects of a Recreation Program on the Social Interaction of Mentally Retarded Adults
Cognitive Structures of Adolescent Leisure Behavior
The study examines the perceptions adolescents have of their leisure behavior. It was motivated by a need to understand the increasing prevalence of what Curtis (1988) terms “Purple Recreation” or negative leisure in this age group. Two hundred and fifty two adolescents from a high school in southwestern Ontario responded to a computerized instrument that prompted them to indicate the degree of similarity of all possible pairs of a list of 20 lei…
Studying leisure perceptions
Research into perceptions of leisure has, with few exceptions, followed the traditional scientific paradigm of inquiry. This paper considers some of the difficulties associated with this positivistic approach. Topics addressed include the gap between research efforts and theory development, the parsimonious nature of positivism, and the assumptions about reality necessary for traditional inquiry. An expanded methodological approach, compatible wi…
Tone in Five Languages of Cameroon
https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/8693
Empowering Female Offenders
More than two thirds of the female inmates of prisons in the United States are recidivists. This article presents recommendations for rein tegrating female inmates into the community on the basis of the findings of a 1993 study of female offenders in the Oklahoma correc tional system. The implementation of these recommendations is dis cussed in the context of five dimensions of an empowerment social work practice model
Recreation and the Glenview Neighborhood
The purpose of this interpretive study was to explore the voices of the ecological agents surrounding the youth of Glenview, a low-resource neighborhood. The research focused on a phenomenon that involved the establishment and discontinuation of a community organization effort to provide structured recreation programs for youth. Theoretical frameworks of the ecological perspective and community social organization guided the study. Twenty-one par…
Leisure behaviour of the Amish
Imagine a life with no mobile phones, computers, televisions or cars. The Amish have existed for almost 300 years with such austerity. How do the Amish remain so grounded in their beliefs and culture? In an effort to gain a better understanding of the Amish, the first author lived with an Old Order Amish family and studied the Amish way of life, focusing on their leisure behaviour. Religion influences every aspect of their lives, most notably lei…
How park and recreation agencies engage in community development
This study described park and recreation agency directors' attitudes towards their agencies' engagement in community development. Two hundred eighty-nine park and recreation administrators were surveyed. A questionnaire measured community development related to participants' attitudes, types, approaches, importance and engagement. Results indicated administrators believed parks and recreation are used for community development and that park and r…
Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Recreation (5 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)