Multicultural training in parks and recreation education programs.(includes related article)

From: Parks & Recreation | Date: March 1, 1998| Author: Dieser, Rodney B.; Peregoy, John Joseph | Copyright information

Racial and ethnic minorities often have different leisure and recreational pursuits than white Americans. It is imperative that those training to be recreational professionals are educated in these differences. How this training can be used in recreation education is analyzed.

More than 50 years ago, Gunnar Myrdal (1944) observed that African-Americans living in the United States had different leisure lifestyles than did white Americans. Likewise, many leisure scholars of past y...

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