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THE STATE OF LEISURE: 1st ANZALS Conference, February, 1993
Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland

Proceedings edited by Alistair Boag, Celia Lamond and Esther Sun, School of Leisure Studies, Griffith University. OUT OF PRINT

  • Foreword - the Honorable Ros Kelly, Minister for the Arts, Sport, Environment, Tourism & Territories.
  • Opening Address - Prof. Roy Webb, Vice-Chancellor, Griffith University
  • Leisure studies: in an open field focussed on a shifting object - Rob Lynch, Chairperson, ANZALS
  • Reflections of leisure research: race, gender and ethical considerations - Clare Simpson, Vice Chairperson, ANZALS

Research Plenary

  • Leisure studies research in the Australian university context - Prof. Roger Holmes, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Griffith University
  • Ideas on Developing a research culture - Grant Cushman
  • Tourism research in Australia: a SWOT analysis - Betty Weiler
  • Getting the act together: leisure research in Australia - A. J. Veal

Closing Plenary

  • Reflections on the conference - Greg Heath
  • Closing summation - Ray Hibbins, Pauline Sky, Linda Trenberth & Betsy Wearing

Adolescence & Leisure

  • Activity predilections of high school girls: case studies profiling WA girls' use of out-of-school time - Kandy James
  • Adolescent women, identity and smoking: leisure experience as resistance - Betsy Wearing, Stephen Wearing, Kathy Kelly
  • The Leisure of inner city girls - Carmel Foley

Ageing & Leisure

  • Through the looking glass: the role of leisure and lifestyle in aged care - Sue Hendy , David Hooker
  • Late career unemployment leisure and lifestyle - J.A. Francis Lobo

Curriculum

  • The role of communication education in the Bachelor of Leisure Studies degree - Samuel Coad Dyer
  • A competency based system - can leisure studies respond to this National Agenda? - Barry Bell
  • Utilizing student expectations to inform teaching and learning practices in undergraduate leisure studies education - Joy Nethersole
  • Professional careers: a study of leisure studies graduates of Victoria University (NZ) - Linda Trenberth
  • Training needs for sport, tourism & recreation management - Clare Hanlon, Robin Tait, Harold Richins
  • Providing for diversity in field experience curriculum - Gabrielle Koop
  • University education for leisure and special populations: Australian directions - Tracy Taylor, Stephen Beech
  • Quality customer service for university recreation leisure studies courses - Gary Howat

Disability & Leisure

  • Barriers to recreation participation: challenges & alternatives - Sue Muloin and Fiona Clarke
  • Leisure-related peer preference: choices of individuals with down's syndrome - Robert Neumayer, Ralph W. Smith and Herberta M. Lundegren
  • Diversional therapy: part of the Australian recreation scene - C. Margaret Skropeta, Trevor Parmenter

Gender Practice

  • Gender issues and commercial adventure travel - do commercial opportunities help overcome gender constraints for women? - Penny Davidson and Bob McKercher
  • Who gets the coverage and who is counting? A methodological review of selected studies of newspaper coverage of women in sport - Peter Brown

Health & Leisure

  • Leisure as intervention: a limited pilot study of women health service clients - P. Sky, B. Wearing, M. McArthur and J. Dewberry
  • Women's caring and care-giving: implications for leisure policy - Celia Lamond
  • Leisure and drug use: testing conventional wisdom - Bruce Hayllar
  • Major dimensions of leisure's impact on health - Denis Coleman

Lifestyle

  • ‘But we are not tourists, and this is life, not leisure’ - Jim Macbeth
  • Housing choice, leisure expenditure and lifestyle - Sally Methuen
  • Travel in haste, resort at leisure: off duty in the nineteenth century - Lesley Abell

Management, Planning & Practice

  • User pays: who pays? - Rex Hendry
  • Establishing a framework for assessing organisational effectiveness in local government recreation services in Western Australian - a Delphi experiment - Sue Colyer
  • Public leisure centres and promotional practices - Bernadette Harrison
  • An analysis of crowding at Uluru National Park - Norman Mcintyre, Denis Coleman, Alistair Boag and Graham Cuskelly
  • Tripping the light fandango or preparing and implementing a recreation plan in a local authority - Rex Hendry
  • The merits of providing sporting and recreational facilities for economic return - Paul Jonson
  • Getting to Know your market: the importance of customer service - Peter Ferguson
  • Tourist cities: the role of leisure in shaping new urban form - Gary Prosser
  • Australian demographic change and leisure and tourism futures - A.J. Veal and Simon Darcy
  • Recreation services for people with disabilities: past influences - current challenge - Joyce Cribb
  • The Heritage Lands project: A case study of public sector recreation planning and management - John M. Jenkins

Research & Theory

  • Quality in leisure research - Louise Bricknell and Elery Hamilton-Smith
  • You just don't understand - men interviewing women - Ray Hibbins
  • Importance-performance analysis: two methodological issues and suggested post hoc solutions - James Absher
  • The leisure theory conundrum - Louise Bricknell
  • Understanding exercise related affect - Bruce Watt
  • Women's leisure: entitlement, personal choice or obligation? A new research direction needed - Coralie McCormack
  • The tangency of theory: feminism and leisure - Pauline Sky
  • Dual systems feminist theory and leisure time: the case of young mothers - Josephine E. Burden
  • What counts as knowledge in physical education ... and whose knowledge counts - Georgia Smeal

Sport & Fitness

  • Aerobic exercise - no worries - Mark Dailhou
  • The professionalisation of Australian Sporting administrators: some implications - Christopher Auld
  • Enough knowledge to be dangerous: certification in the fitness industry - Rodney Barrett

Tourism

  • "Put another prawn on the barbie". Deconstructing 'malestream' images of Australia in tourism advertising - Georgia Young and Peter Brown
  • Assessing the need for the development of an attitudinal training program for hotel staff towards the guest with disabilities - Pheroza Surti Daruwalla
  • Nature based tourism and environmental education: opportunities and constraints - Kevin Markwell
  • Ecotourism: the Santa Elena Rainforest project - Stephen Wearing
  • Educational tourism and the authenticity of the tourist experience: the alternative lie - Jillian Litster

Women & Leisure

  • Women's bodies - women's exercise - Janet Pearce
  • Out of the frying pan ... into adventure ... women and recreation in the outdoors: a case study approach - Tessa Migdalski