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Advancing Diversity during a Pandemic: Using the Packback Platform as a Tool
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Reed, Katrina Black – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2023
In a virtual environment finding creative ways to connect course material is essential to student success. PackBack is a platform that can bridge course material as students learn new knowledge. PackBack consists of special measures that help students research questions they may still have after discussing course material. Using this platform and…
Descriptors: Diversity, COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning
Teaching Recreation Programming Online: "Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable"
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Kerins, Andrew J. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2023
Teaching an online course was always something I resisted. Like many of the colleagues I have talked to, I was worried that the lack of face-to-face interaction would significantly take away from the quality of the education for the students. With a class like Recreation Programming, I knew that students needed hands-on experience with running a…
Descriptors: Recreational Programs, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Programming
Pod-agogies: Story-Sharing Interviews for Leisure Students
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Leighton, Jaylyn – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2023
This paper explores the use of podcast-style interview pedagogies (pod-agogies) as an innovate teaching method in a capstone therapeutic recreation (TR) seminar course. The purpose of the pod-agogies course component was to create meaningful connections between upper-year TR students and TR practitioners working in the field and on the frontlines…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Electronic Publishing, Audio Equipment, Recreational Programs
The Dialectics of Everyday Life in Pioneer Camps: Romanticism and Regimen
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Kudryashev, A. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2019
The article analyzes accounts of the regimented aspects of life at summer pioneer camps (daily routine, lining up, and marching in formation) as well as the informal aspects of children's subculture. Our main source of information were publications in the Soviet children's press and specialized periodicals in education from between the late 1950s…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Camps, Subcultures, Social Systems
Expert Review of Pedagogical Activities at Therapeutic Recreation Camps
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Kiselev, N. N.; Kiseleva, E. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
An analysis of pedagogical expert reviews at children's therapeutic recreation camps in Novosibirsk Region shows that it is necessary to implement an expert review system that plays a supporting and developmental role. Such a system should allow teams of teachers to submit their work to expert review and to move forward by reflecting on their…
Descriptors: Therapeutic Recreation, Recreational Programs, Foreign Countries, Specialists
Supporting STEM Activities in Out-of-School Time Programs
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Mielke, Monica; Butler, Alisha; Russell, Christina A.; Orozco, Natalie – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2013
Out-of-school time programs are well-positioned to enhance students' Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills, increase their interest in STEM fields, and increase their engagement in learning overall. In its 2011 Request for Proposals (RFP) for Out-of-School Time (OST) programs for youth in the elementary and middle grades, the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Learning Activities, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students