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KEYNOTE
speakers include:
Ken Roberts
Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool
Nigel Thomas
Professor of Childhood and Youth Research and Co-Director of
'The Centre': a research centre focused on children and young
people's participation and inclusion
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THIS SEMINAR aims to bring
together researchers from across the social sciences with an
interest in debates on children, youth and leisure.
Within contemporary UK society
the importance of leisure for young people's development and
wellbeing has been acknowledged. However scrutiny of children
and young people's leisure lives is currently at a noticeable
high for a number of reasons. Perhaps most prominent of these
has been the government and media attention on childhood obesity
leading to greater attention on how young people spend their
leisure time and whether they engage in physically active leisure.
Conversely, the development
of gaming technology, the explosion of the Wii phenomena and
the increasing number of social networking sites via the internet
such as 'facebook' and 'bebo' has led to a wider range of non-active
leisure activities being readily accessible to children and young
people within their own homes. Debates persist about the value
of these activities for young people and the potential detriment
they can bring to wellbeing. Related to this and a further area
of both academic and policy discussions are issues of children's
leisure and risk, from 'stranger danger', to the continuing extension
and development of child protection legislation which has led
to the restriction of children's leisure spaces, particularly
unstructured and non adult supervised spaces for leisure away
from the home. Finally with youth unemployment in the UK reaching
its highest levels since 1993, the concept of youth and enforced
leisure time and deviant leisure are also pertinent within youth
and leisure dialogues.
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SEE THE PROGRAMME
* Children, young people
and leisure space
* Methodological issues in young people and leisure research
* Children, youth and physically active leisure
* Social exclusion, young people and leisure
* Youth culture and leisure
BOOKING FORM
Please print, complete and
return with payment
to Dr. Ruth Jeanes, or contact
Dr Ruth Jeanes at rjeanes@uclan.ac.uk
LSA Home page http://www.leisure-studies-association.info/LSAWEB/Index.html
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