Leisure Adult education

Pre-requisites: Completed obligations determined by the Statute.

Course objectives: Acquiring knowledge and skills for educational activities and professional research in the field of adult leisure time in order to improve the practice of adult education and learning.

Course description: Theoretical study: Education and adult leisure culture. Leisure studies: world relations. Specificity of leisure adult education. Research of the adult leisure education: world relations. Methodological specificity of the study of leisure education. Education and specific types of communication in leisure of adults. The general andragogical relevance of the study of leisure. Specific areas of leisure education (tourism, ecological education, recreation and sport, play, art, amateurism, innovation). Leisure education in the specified conditions (enterprise, cultural institutions, family, old, young adults, disabled people, gender...). Contemporary educational technology and leisure of adults. Practical teaching: Planning, programming, organizing, practising and evaluation of various cultural-educational activities in leisure; Advisory professional abilities and skills in the field of leisure.

Learning Outcomes: Student will be able to deepen knowledge and develop professional counselling skills in leisure time of adults; to select content and areas of cultural and educational offer in leisure; to design programs of adult leisure education; and to design and do research in the field of tourism, recreation, sport, play and creativity of adults.

Literature/Reading:

• Brajša-Žganec, A., Merkaš, M. & Šverko, I. (2011). Quality of Life and Leisure Activities: How do Leisure Activities Contribute to Subjective Well-Being? Social Indicators Research.
• Henderson, K. A. et al. (2003) A Leisure of One’s Own: A Feminist Perspective on Women’s Leisure. State College, PA: Venture Publishing.
• Jones, I. and Simon, G. (2001) Lifelong Learning as Serious Leisure: Policy, Practice and Potential. Leisure Studies, Vol. 20 (pp. 269-283)
• Kacavenda-Radic, N. (2003) Suitability and Education of the Population for Incoming Tourism, The Development and Potentials of Ecotourism on Balkan Peninsula, SANU and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
• Kačavenda-Radić, N. (1997) Istraživanja u oblasti dokolice i obrazovanja – svetske relacije. Zbornik radova: Istraživanja u pedagogiji i andragogiji, Beograd: IPA.
• Kačavenda-Radić, N. (2005) Leisure as an Opportunity for Lifelong Learning. In: Terzis, N. P. (Ed.) Lifelong Learning in the Balkans. Thesaloniki: Balkan Society for Pedagogy and Education.
• Kačavenda-Radić, N. (2009). Leisure Education: Core Issues and Models. Andragoške studije.
• Kačavenda-Radić, N. (2009b) Pedagogija slobodnog vremena: tendencije i relevantne oblasti u obrazovanju pedagoga. Beograd: Godišnjak Srpske akademije obrazovanja.
• Kačavenda-Radić, N., Nikolić-Maksić, T. i Ljujić, B. (2011) Kvalitet dokoličarskog i komunikaciono-medijskog obrazovanja. Zbornik radova: Kvalitet u obrazovanju, Beograd: IPA.
• Nikolic Maksić, T. (2009) Self concept i obrazovanje u slobodnom vremenu odraslih, magistarski rad.