Alison Pedlar
Biographic Data
| ID | 5857753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Pedlar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Pedlar |
| SIGNATURE | PEDLAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison
In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse. Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from women who have spent time in a Canadian federal penitentiary. Based on more than a decade of engagement with women in prison, the authors gathered rich and personal information …
Leisure as a Context for Justice: Experiences of Ceremony for Aboriginal Women in Prison
The purpose of this paper is to examine the leisure experiences of Aboriginal women in a Canadian federal prison as they engaged in traditional ceremony. Conceptualized as leisure, these ceremonies were examined in the context of justice by exploring the women's resistance to oppression and loss of identity rooted in colonization. The findings of the study suggest that through ceremony, Aboriginal women's identities and understanding of being Abo…
Role of Canadian user‐led disability organizations in the non‐profit sector
User‐led disability organizations have emerged as an important force in the non‐profit sector. While much is known about the traditional disability organizations that began to proliferate in the 1950s (e.g. National Institute for the Blind), relatively less is known about the user‐led organizations that emerged in the 1970s. Using a collective case study approach, phase 1 was a policy review and key informant interviews with members of user‐led a…
Building Community and Social Capital through Children's Leisure in the Context of an International Camp
The purpose of the study was to explore the extent to which participation in leisure activities directed towards cooperation and effective communication affected the development of social capital and sense of community in a group of children at an international camp. Methods of data collection included participant observation and focus groups, which included drawings as a part of the focus group procedure. Through an inductive analysis of qualita…
Moving beyond individualism in leisure theory: A critical analysis of concepts of community and social engagement
In the latter years of the twentieth century, the social relevance of the leisure field diminished as consumption and individualism came to dominate leisure and recreation research and praxis across modern democratic nations. A consequence of this focus in leisure studies has been a neglect of community and the common good. Now, at the commencement of the twenty-first century, three interrelated crises become increasingly apparent - the crisis of…
Experiencing Leisure on a Cognitive Support Unit
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of residents on a cognitive support unit in relation to leisure opportunities provided by recreation therapy practitioners who practice patient-focused care, as expressed in Parse’s theory of human becoming. The research aimed to gain knowledge of the leisure experiences of the residents as they were living it. Multiple qualitative methods were employed, including participant observation, c…
Restructuring Human Services in Canada: Commodification of disability
The human service system in Canada has undergone significant changes as a result of the dismantling of provisions that were once in place to ensure access to services by society's more vulnerable citizens. This paper draws on a cross-Canada examination of services to adults with developmental disabilities to report on the response of service providers in this time of turbulence. Qualitative analysis provides insight into the ways in which service…
Understanding the Leisure Experiences of a Minority Ethnic Group: South Asian Teens and Young Adults in Canada
This paper reports on a qualitative study which sought to examine the role of leisure in the lives of young adults who were the children of visible ethnic minority immigrants to Canada. Its focus was twofold: (a) to explore leisure in their daily lives, its contribution to their sense of identity, and the role leisure played as these young people tried to balance both Canadian society and their own cultural traditions, and (b) to consider how the…
Clinical Experience with Goal Attainment Scaling in Geriatric Care
GAS has affected both care practices and patient outcomes. This study illustrates the clinical impacts an outcome measure can have, as well as the use of qualitative methods for this type of research
Speaking Each Others' Language: Should Insularity Concern Us
Samdahl and Kelly and Jordan and Roland give reasons for thinking that we are speaking only to ourselves. Practitioners don't often read research-based journals, people who publish in other contemporary research journals don't often cite papers that appear in leisure research journals, and leisure researchers who publish in leisure research journals don't often cite papers in those other journals. So far as these observations are accurate, what d…
Building Communities Through Leisure: Citizen Participation in a Healthy Communities Initiative
This paper reports on an in-depth qualitative study of the experience of citizen participation as a leisure pursuit. Participants were involved with a Healthy Communities initiative. Findings indicated citizen participation lead to benefits associated with serious leisure and community building. Five themes reflected benefits citizens identified from their involvement with healthy communities; these were (a) learning and developing new skills, (b…
Resumption of role status through leisure in later life
The older adult population is more active and diverse than ever before. Meanwhile, societal expectations attached to the older person role have remained relatively static, reflecting an era of very different health and social conditions. Consequently, existing older adult role expectations are based on outdated images of older adult health and attendant lifestyle preferences, which influence the way in which human service organizations, including…
Relevance and action research in leisure
In this article, I argue that action research has a critical role to play in leisure studies. Its strength lies in its ability to foster change and rejuvenate community in postindustrial society. The interdependence between people that is so vital to the welfare of the collective can be more fully realized through action research in leisure and recreation. However, there is a need for researchers to be well trained and subsequently encouraged to …
Moving beyond individualism in leisure theory: A critical analysis of concepts of community and social engagement
In the latter years of the twentieth century, the social relevance of the leisure field diminished as consumption and individualism came to dominate leisure and recreation research and praxis across modern democratic nations. A consequence of this focus in leisure studies has been a neglect of community and the common good. Now, at the commencement of the twenty-first century, three interrelated crises become increasingly apparent - the crisis of…
Building Communities Through Leisure: Citizen Participation in a Healthy Communities Initiative
This paper reports on an in-depth qualitative study of the experience of citizen participation as a leisure pursuit. Participants were involved with a Healthy Communities initiative. Findings indicated citizen participation lead to benefits associated with serious leisure and community building. Five themes reflected benefits citizens identified from their involvement with healthy communities; these were (a) learning and developing new skills, (b…
Leisure as a Context for Justice: Experiences of Ceremony for Aboriginal Women in Prison
The purpose of this paper is to examine the leisure experiences of Aboriginal women in a Canadian federal prison as they engaged in traditional ceremony. Conceptualized as leisure, these ceremonies were examined in the context of justice by exploring the women's resistance to oppression and loss of identity rooted in colonization. The findings of the study suggest that through ceremony, Aboriginal women's identities and understanding of being Abo…
Building Community and Social Capital through Children's Leisure in the Context of an International Camp
The purpose of the study was to explore the extent to which participation in leisure activities directed towards cooperation and effective communication affected the development of social capital and sense of community in a group of children at an international camp. Methods of data collection included participant observation and focus groups, which included drawings as a part of the focus group procedure. Through an inductive analysis of qualita…
Understanding the Leisure Experiences of a Minority Ethnic Group: South Asian Teens and Young Adults in Canada
This paper reports on a qualitative study which sought to examine the role of leisure in the lives of young adults who were the children of visible ethnic minority immigrants to Canada. Its focus was twofold: (a) to explore leisure in their daily lives, its contribution to their sense of identity, and the role leisure played as these young people tried to balance both Canadian society and their own cultural traditions, and (b) to consider how the…
Experiencing Leisure on a Cognitive Support Unit
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of residents on a cognitive support unit in relation to leisure opportunities provided by recreation therapy practitioners who practice patient-focused care, as expressed in Parse’s theory of human becoming. The research aimed to gain knowledge of the leisure experiences of the residents as they were living it. Multiple qualitative methods were employed, including participant observation, c…
Speaking Each Others' Language: Should Insularity Concern Us
Samdahl and Kelly and Jordan and Roland give reasons for thinking that we are speaking only to ourselves. Practitioners don't often read research-based journals, people who publish in other contemporary research journals don't often cite papers that appear in leisure research journals, and leisure researchers who publish in leisure research journals don't often cite papers in those other journals. So far as these observations are accurate, what d…
Restructuring Human Services in Canada: Commodification of disability
The human service system in Canada has undergone significant changes as a result of the dismantling of provisions that were once in place to ensure access to services by society's more vulnerable citizens. This paper draws on a cross-Canada examination of services to adults with developmental disabilities to report on the response of service providers in this time of turbulence. Qualitative analysis provides insight into the ways in which service…
Relevance and action research in leisure
In this article, I argue that action research has a critical role to play in leisure studies. Its strength lies in its ability to foster change and rejuvenate community in postindustrial society. The interdependence between people that is so vital to the welfare of the collective can be more fully realized through action research in leisure and recreation. However, there is a need for researchers to be well trained and subsequently encouraged to …
Role of Canadian user‐led disability organizations in the non‐profit sector
User‐led disability organizations have emerged as an important force in the non‐profit sector. While much is known about the traditional disability organizations that began to proliferate in the 1950s (e.g. National Institute for the Blind), relatively less is known about the user‐led organizations that emerged in the 1970s. Using a collective case study approach, phase 1 was a policy review and key informant interviews with members of user‐led a…
Resumption of role status through leisure in later life
The older adult population is more active and diverse than ever before. Meanwhile, societal expectations attached to the older person role have remained relatively static, reflecting an era of very different health and social conditions. Consequently, existing older adult role expectations are based on outdated images of older adult health and attendant lifestyle preferences, which influence the way in which human service organizations, including…
Relevance and action research in leisure
In this article, I argue that action research has a critical role to play in leisure studies. Its strength lies in its ability to foster change and rejuvenate community in postindustrial society. The interdependence between people that is so vital to the welfare of the collective can be more fully realized through action research in leisure and recreation. However, there is a need for researchers to be well trained and subsequently encouraged to …
Resumption of role status through leisure in later life
The older adult population is more active and diverse than ever before. Meanwhile, societal expectations attached to the older person role have remained relatively static, reflecting an era of very different health and social conditions. Consequently, existing older adult role expectations are based on outdated images of older adult health and attendant lifestyle preferences, which influence the way in which human service organizations, including…
Building Communities Through Leisure: Citizen Participation in a Healthy Communities Initiative
This paper reports on an in-depth qualitative study of the experience of citizen participation as a leisure pursuit. Participants were involved with a Healthy Communities initiative. Findings indicated citizen participation lead to benefits associated with serious leisure and community building. Five themes reflected benefits citizens identified from their involvement with healthy communities; these were (a) learning and developing new skills, (b…
Clinical Experience with Goal Attainment Scaling in Geriatric Care
GAS has affected both care practices and patient outcomes. This study illustrates the clinical impacts an outcome measure can have, as well as the use of qualitative methods for this type of research
Speaking Each Others' Language: Should Insularity Concern Us
Samdahl and Kelly and Jordan and Roland give reasons for thinking that we are speaking only to ourselves. Practitioners don't often read research-based journals, people who publish in other contemporary research journals don't often cite papers that appear in leisure research journals, and leisure researchers who publish in leisure research journals don't often cite papers in those other journals. So far as these observations are accurate, what d…
Restructuring Human Services in Canada: Commodification of disability
The human service system in Canada has undergone significant changes as a result of the dismantling of provisions that were once in place to ensure access to services by society's more vulnerable citizens. This paper draws on a cross-Canada examination of services to adults with developmental disabilities to report on the response of service providers in this time of turbulence. Qualitative analysis provides insight into the ways in which service…
Understanding the Leisure Experiences of a Minority Ethnic Group: South Asian Teens and Young Adults in Canada
This paper reports on a qualitative study which sought to examine the role of leisure in the lives of young adults who were the children of visible ethnic minority immigrants to Canada. Its focus was twofold: (a) to explore leisure in their daily lives, its contribution to their sense of identity, and the role leisure played as these young people tried to balance both Canadian society and their own cultural traditions, and (b) to consider how the…
Experiencing Leisure on a Cognitive Support Unit
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of residents on a cognitive support unit in relation to leisure opportunities provided by recreation therapy practitioners who practice patient-focused care, as expressed in Parse’s theory of human becoming. The research aimed to gain knowledge of the leisure experiences of the residents as they were living it. Multiple qualitative methods were employed, including participant observation, c…
Moving beyond individualism in leisure theory: A critical analysis of concepts of community and social engagement
In the latter years of the twentieth century, the social relevance of the leisure field diminished as consumption and individualism came to dominate leisure and recreation research and praxis across modern democratic nations. A consequence of this focus in leisure studies has been a neglect of community and the common good. Now, at the commencement of the twenty-first century, three interrelated crises become increasingly apparent - the crisis of…
Building Community and Social Capital through Children's Leisure in the Context of an International Camp
The purpose of the study was to explore the extent to which participation in leisure activities directed towards cooperation and effective communication affected the development of social capital and sense of community in a group of children at an international camp. Methods of data collection included participant observation and focus groups, which included drawings as a part of the focus group procedure. Through an inductive analysis of qualita…
Role of Canadian user‐led disability organizations in the non‐profit sector
User‐led disability organizations have emerged as an important force in the non‐profit sector. While much is known about the traditional disability organizations that began to proliferate in the 1950s (e.g. National Institute for the Blind), relatively less is known about the user‐led organizations that emerged in the 1970s. Using a collective case study approach, phase 1 was a policy review and key informant interviews with members of user‐led a…
Leisure as a Context for Justice: Experiences of Ceremony for Aboriginal Women in Prison
The purpose of this paper is to examine the leisure experiences of Aboriginal women in a Canadian federal prison as they engaged in traditional ceremony. Conceptualized as leisure, these ceremonies were examined in the context of justice by exploring the women's resistance to oppression and loss of identity rooted in colonization. The findings of the study suggest that through ceremony, Aboriginal women's identities and understanding of being Abo…
Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison
In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse. Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from women who have spent time in a Canadian federal penitentiary. Based on more than a decade of engagement with women in prison, the authors gathered rich and personal information …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works) · Qualitative research (4 works)