Issues in Recreation and Leisure: Ethical Decision Making
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Issues in Recreation and Leisure: Ethical Decision Making
- Author(s): Mclean, Yoder
- Published: 7-13-2005
- SHK00947
<html> <head> </head> <body><p>Learning to resolve a dilemma ethically is a complex skill that recreation leaders and managers must learn in order to be successful, because they face ethical issues every day. They must ask themselves, “What is the right thing to do in this situation?†“Is my decision ethical for everyone involved?†“How will my decision affect each of the stakeholders—and my career?â€</p><p>Teaching applied ethics requires an understanding of how moral dilemmas can be justly resolved as well as techniques and approaches to accomplish these goals. <i>Issues in Recreation and Leisure: Ethical Decision Making</i> guides students though this complex process of resolving real-life recreation dilemmas by presenting activities, techniques, and a field-tested three-step process. This process helps students develop sound approaches to dealing with contemporary issues in leisure and recreation. </p><p>In addition, this text contains the following features:</p><p>-Thematic chapters that address current major issues in recreation management, therapeutic recreation, outdoor recreation, tourism, and culture so that students can comprehend the range of issues in these diverse areas of recreation</p><p>-Eight case studies based on current dilemmas from a variety of recreation and leisure settings, providing students with valuable practice in applying the three-step method for resolving ethical dilemmas</p><p>-Learning activities in each chapter that help students apply leisure philosophy to resolve dilemmas</p><p><b>Part I</b> explores ethics in leisure services and examines how dilemmas are naturally solved. It covers ethical theory and introduces a three-step method that can be widely applied. Students learn how recreation professionals worked through an actual dilemma and how their problem-solving strategies affect their solutions and their careers. </p><p><b>Part II</b> presents real-life dilemmas common to a variety of leisure management areas, ethical issues in therapeutic recreation, and problems in outdoor education. The authors also tackle various issues surrounding tourism, including culture, sex tourism, the natural environment, and virtual tourism. </p><p><b>Part III</b> contains a consideration of professionalism in parks and recreation and related fields, a peek into the future, and eight contemporary case studies drawn from leisure services fields. These case studies test students' abilities to apply ethical problem solving by using the three-step method presented earlier in the book. The studies present issues in four major areas of recreation and leisure. </p><p><i>Issues in Recreation and Leisure: Ethical Decision Making</i> provides new insights into the recreation and leisure profession. It comes with a flexible format that can be used for one- to three-credit-hour courses in recreation issues. It arms students with the theory and knowledge they need for ethically resolving dilemmas. As such, it prepares them to make a difference as effective leisure service providers. </p></body> </html>
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