Week 3 Nash model on use of Leisure PDF

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Source: Nash, J. B.(1960) Nash’s concept of use of Leisure Time. Cited in Williams and Buswell 2003. 1. Passive recreation This is the base of the pyramid where a large portion of the population find a sense of satisfaction and enjoyment. In passive recreation, the participants are silent observers or spectators enjoying the entertainment or amusement or game put forward by others. The passive use of leisure is just some means of passing away the time and escaping from the monotonous work.

2. Emotional recreation In emotional recreation the individual is not only a silent spectator but also he becomes one with activity and feels himself as a part of it. It touches his feelings, a sort of indirect participation takes place and is emotionally moved to a greater appreciation by a critical study of it. This occurs while watching a game or witnessing a drama or even reading a novel. A person listening to a musical program over a radio or television for the purpose of relaxation, participates intellectually and emotionally with the minimum of exertion. 3. Active Recreation Actively participating in an activity. This involves physical participation or exertion. That is playing a game or singing, dancing, drama acting, etc. Here, the participant just imitates the action of another or plays a game

just like another. No creative aspect is present whereas it is actual participation through copying the action of others. 4. Creative Recreation This is the apex of the recreation pyramid where the participants get the joy of creation. Recreation through creation is found in arts and crafts, model making, basket making, painting, literary works, etc. Recreation shall never be compulsory. It is an antithesis of the dull monotony of work. L.P. Jacks contends, “Recreation is not an escape from the toils of education into the emptiness of a vocation, but a vitalizing element in the process of education itself.” In the modern concept of education recreation form the “Fourth R”....