Recreation programming
Subtitle: designing and staging leisure experiences
By: J. Robert Rossman, Barbara Elwood Schlatter
Contributors: Schlatter, Barbara Elwood, author
Edition: Sixth Edition.
Publisher: Sagamore Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9781571676696
Subjects: Recreation leadership; Recreation; Management; Planning; Recreatie
Notes: Previous edition published 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Basic programming concepts; title: How individuals experience leisure; title: Six key elements of a situated activity system; title: Outcome-based programming; title: Developing leisure products in the experience economy; title: Using goals and objectives in program development; title: The program development cycle; title: Determining agency culture. Developing the agency's programming mission; title: Developing strategic directions: writing program management goals; title: Targeted program development. Obtaining participant input; title: Writing program design goals; title: Program design; title: Creative programming; title: Operational strategies. Preparing the program plan; title: Techniques for program promotion; title: Registration procedures; title: Staffing supervising program operations; title: Developing a program pricing philosophy; title: Determining program costs; title: Pricing program services; title: Follow-up analysis. Program evaluation techniques; title: Developing a comprehensive evaluation system; title: Making decisions about program services.