Cultivating leisure : moving from arrest in habitual patterns to participation in conscious choice

dc.contributor.authorMiller, Catherine Mansfielden_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-14T22:51:31Z
dc.date.available2024-08-14T22:51:31Z
dc.date.copyright1997en_US
dc.date.issued1997
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Physical Education
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThis inquiry begins with a focus on the experience of constrained leisure. Using a critical, feminist lens the 're-search' evolves into an exploration of everyday experiences of constraint in three particular arenas and the relationship of these experiences to the social forces that shape them. These arenas are; epistemology and research, the meaning and practice of leisure and participation in my health. The autobiographical narrative in this thesis illustrates a shift in awareness and understanding that has enabled me to move within these arenas from arrest in habitual patterns of constraint to participation in conscious choice . Important to this process has been the development of a meaningful understanding of leisure and the realization that this inquiry is an embodiment of leisure; the development of awareness and understanding in the pausing to question and critically reflect. This study illustrates possibilities of human agency within leisure.
dc.format.extent148 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/18992
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleCultivating leisure : moving from arrest in habitual patterns to participation in conscious choiceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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