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Recreation and leisure

on funding by agencies whose prime concern is the provision of facilities rather than an acdemic understanding of their use. Burton’s (1979) assessment of achievements and prospects, albeit from a Canadian point of view, was therefore unusually welcome. He uses the analogy of the physical and mental growth of human beings, with leisure research born in the 1950s and passing through its infancy in that decade. It had then perforce to rely entirely upon others for the satisfaction of its needs, but in early childhood, 1960-66, it acquired a language of its own and was seen as a field in its own right, albeit dependent for concepts and techniques on parent disciplines. Turbulent adolescence, 1967-74, saw a more sturdy independence. The human characteristics of rapid physical growth unmatched by comparable mental growth, of narrow-mindedness and dogmatic assertiveness were paralleled by a rapid, uncoordinated growth of funds and studies, of major exercises in data collection lacking roots in a sound methodological core, of individuals seeking to make their own mark with little reference to the tools and findings of other workers. Like Columbus, Burton suggests, when the researcher set out ’he didn’t know where he was going; when he arrived, he didn’t know where he was; and when he returned, he didn’t know where he had been!’