Student Recreation Center

The Importance of Physical Education & Recreation in Student Life

Every individual must know the importance of physical fitness. In other words, one must have a fundamental knowledge of anatomy and physiology. This fundamental knowledge enables person to understand physical fitness. Physical fitness is the capacity of a person to function steadily and smoothly when a situation arises. Physical fitness makes you feel mentally sharper, physically comfortable an...

The Fitness and Wellness IQ: Measuring College Student Learning in Campus Recreation Fitness and Wellness Programs

Collegiate campus recreation departments are held to increasingly higher levels of accountability, particularly as to whether recreational programs and activities have impact on student learning. This pioneering study found that students who participated in selected fitness and wellness programs offered by a certain four-year, public institution of higher education in the Mid-west scored signif...

Putting the Student in the Center: Motivating Interest through Student Relevancy

1 " We have not yet seen what man can make of man. " – B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom & Dignity INTRODUCTION Cognitive learning theories, no matter how perfectly realized in classroom instructional design, have been of little effect when students' interests were not addressed. Without curiosity, an impenetrable wall existed between the student and teacher that was only breached with the strictes...

Recreation Specialization Revisited

The essence of specialization theory, first published in The Journal of Leisure Research in 1977 (Bryan) and subsequently expanded in a 1979 monograph (Bryan), is that outdoor recreation participants can be placed on a continuum from general interest and low involvement to specialized interest and high involvement. Each level of specialization carries distinctive behaviors and orientations. The...

Education through recreation.