Features of students` leisure practices

Authors

  • A. A. Myrzabekova Казахский национальный университет имени аль-Фараби, Республика Казахстан, г. Алматы

Keywords:

leisure, leisure practices, youth, students, free time.

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of leisure issues and reveals the basic fea-
tures of modern leisure practices of students. The article deals with the concept
of «leisure» as a time free from work and routine household tasks and suitable for
recovery, relaxation, hobby, recreation, cultural and artistic activities, as well as
activities involved in «free time».Leisure is commonly understood as free time, an
activity, and a state of mind. The introduction of article gives accessible and engag-
ing introduction to leisure studies and leisure research, understandings of everyday
life and enabling them to develop an understanding of contemporary leisure studies
and changing leisure practices. Authors answered to the main research questions
as «What types of leisure practices exist among students?», «With whom spend lei-
sure students?», «When students are engaged in leisure activities?», «Where students
spend their leisure time?» to study this topic. The main part of the article reveals
the methodology of studying students’ leisure practices. As a method of research,
authors used leisure diary with photos of everyday leisure practices. This visual
method provided qualitative data for analysis of current practices of students. Data
were collected from students at al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Modern indi-
viduals` needs define new types and forms of leisure practices. In particular, leisure
is traditionally one of the most important areas of youth activities. Because this par-
ticular social group is most receptive to modern social and cultural innovation. Par-
ticular attention is paid to existing views in social science to the definition of leisure.

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Published

2017-01-17