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Volunteering as leisure/leisure as volunteering : an international assessment / edited by Robert A. Stebbins and Margaret Graham.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voluntarism.
- Leisure.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines critical aspects of contemporary volunteerism, from the perspective of a variety of volunteering contexts.
- Contents:
- Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Volunteering as Heritage/ Volunteering in Heritage; Part I Establishing Long-term Commitment: Event Volunteering; 2 Adopting Sustainable Ethics: Voluntary Practice Amongst Event Organizers; 3 Paths to Volunteer Commitment: Lessons from the Sydney Olympic Games; Part II Changing Volunteer Lifestyles: Motivation and Satisfaction; 4 Volunteer Satisfaction and Serious Leisure in Rural Fire Departments: Implications for Human Capital and Social Capital1
- 5 Understanding American Parks and Recreation Volunteers Utilizing a Functionalist Perspective 6 A Logistic Regression Model of the Decision of Volunteers to Enter a Sports Coach Education Programme 6; Part III Politics of Volunteering and Active Citizenship: Policy Issues; 7 Defining Field Characteristics of Museums and Art Museums: an Australian Perspective; 8 Volunteering in the Canadian Context: Identity, Civic Participation and the Politics of Participation in Serious Leisure; 9 Managing Volunteers in Different Settings: Membership and Programme Management
- Part IV Encouraging the Next Generation: Sustainability and Youth Volunteering10 Pressures on Volunteers in the UK; 11 Examining Best Practice in Volunteer Tourism; 12 Fostering Human Resources in the Leisure Field: 'Serious Leisure' and the Potential Role of Volunteers. A Proposal for Developing Countries; 13 Epilogue; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86629-2
- 9786610866298
- 0-85199-921-2
- OCLC:
- 476072151
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