The purpose and goals of the World Leisure Commission on Leisure Education (WLCLE) are to develop leisure education resources, programs and strategies through international exchange and cooperation. Together, leisure education scholars, practitioners, organizations, teachers, students, participants and interested parties of WLCLE from around the world can share research, practice, theory and experience.
We aspire to be a leadership axis for international leisure education as well as a force that builds collaborations to: advocate for leisure education, conduct research and evaluation studies, and address implementation issues across a variety of settings and populations.
Objectives
- To promote awareness of the significance of leisure education
- To exchange approaches on leisure learning and education
- To provide forums for discussion of global issues in all aspects of leisure education in the schools and in community settings
- To support the leisure education of specific groups (youth, incarcerated, women, retirees, etc) so as to enhance their access to healthy leisure functioning and lifestyles
- To promote and foster quality research in leisure education.
- To disseminate information on leisure education.
- To foster the development of international, regional and national policies and programs on leisure education.
- To promote and offer technical, educational and consultative services in leisure education to public and private organizations and institutions.
- To support the training of personnel in the various areas of leisure education.
The Chair of the World Leisure Commission on Leisure Education is Alison Link. If you are interested in the work of the commission and/or would like to contribute to the work of the Commission, you may contact Alison at alisonlink@gmail.com.
This blog is an initiative of the WLCLE and serves as an effort to work toward achieving the specific objectives outlined above. The blog administrator is Charlene Shannon-McCallum. If you have inquiries about the blog, please feel free to contact Charlene directly at cshannon@unb.ca.
Leisure Education 
I came across your blog site and I am very interested in this subject. I just retired from 35 years of public recreation service in California. I also teach in Recreation, Parks and Tourism curriculum at a university. I started a consulting business called Second Wind Leisure that addresses this very topic of leisure education. I see that this ideal is alive and well in Canada and other countries, rather than the U.S. I have been blogging about this subject on my wordpress site–here is an example: http://terriwebsterschrandt.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/photography-101-connecting-in-leisure/
I would love to reblog some of your articles.
Hi Terri,
I’m so glad you found us. We’re hoping to engage leisure educators in discussion through this blog and to share ideas – particularly about leisure education outside of the therapeutic recreation context. If you’re interested in writing a post for the blog – let me know. Feel free to reblog as you see things that may be of interest to you and your readers.
Charlene