The Educational Implications of Changing Job Responsibilities and Staffing Patterns in State Park Planning

Ron Nickerson, Ingrid Schneider

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Abstract

This paper reports on a nationwide research project aimed at documenting the work responsibilities and staffing patterns of state park planners. Results indicate decreasing staff size and diversifying work responsibilities for state park planners. In addition, a general neglect of documenting planning processes, evaluating plans and updating plans exists within state park planning units. Select educational implications of these findings are explored in this paper. Adopting a stronger outdoor recreation planning emphasis within recreation management curricula is proposed to ensure that students are adequately prepared for entrance into the outdoor recreation planning field In addition, students seeking the emphasis should be exposed to an interdisciplinary education which should include exposure to a variety of planning theories, planning techniques, research skills and communication skills often taught in general planning and social science curricula.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)99-114
Number of pages16
JournalSCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 1996 Taylor & Francis.

Keywords

  • outdoor recreation planning
  • recreation curriculum
  • State park planning

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