On The Realistic Demands And Promotional Strategies For Adult Leisure Education In China

The quality of leisure life has been not only one of the symbols which indicates the level of a nation's productivity, but also a symbol which measures the level of its civilization. Leisure life has been a field which highly relates to people's lifestyles and attitudes to life. With the economic and social development, the adult in China have more leisure time, and pay more and more attention to improving the quality of their leisure life. But in the real life, most adults still have many misunderstandings about how to participate leisure properly, the richer some adults become materially, the poorer they become mentally. So, with adult leisure education, how to help adults to establish proper leisure values, to change leisure lifestyle, and make them take an active part in activities for leisure time, has been the realistic demands all over our country. Based on above considerations, the research starts from the related concepts of adult leisure education, analyzes the realistic demands for adult leisure education in our country, and then proposed the promotional strategies of adult leisure education in our country.This paper includes three parts:PartⅠ:Overview of adult leisure education. The research begins with the analysis about the concept of leisure, leisure education and adult leisure education, discusses the objectives and contents of adult leisure education, and describes its functions and significance. The purpose is to enhance the overall understanding about adult leisure education. This is the basis points about the whole research.PartⅡ:The realistic demands of adult leisure education in China. The realistic demands of adult leisure education in China are mainly reflected in these three aspects:adult leisure education as common demands for all kinds of adults; adults' irrational leisure values to be corrected by adult leisure education; adults' unscientific leisure practices to be corrected by adult leisure education.PartⅢ:The promotional strategies for adult leisure education in China. The promotional strategies of adult leisure education in China are mainly reflected in these four aspects:promoting the transition of adult leisure values radically; promoting the changes of adult leisure lifestyle thoroughly; making the government to play a leading role in adult leisure education; strengthening the varied adult leisure education. Leisure is an essential part of human beings'existence, also a lasting and important stage in one's life. As the American leisure research expert John Kelly said," Leisure is a process to let a people'Being Human', in order to'Being Human', we need both freedom and community, both self-creation and help from others. " So, adult leisure education is a kind of education whose objective is to let adults learn how to use and enjoy leisure, learn how to live, then enrich and develop their life.