On the Leisure Life of College Students and Leisure Education in Universities

Leisure assumes an important role in the life and development of an individual person, and it is definitely not tantamount to ordinary rests or relaxations. By cultivating scientific leisure concepts and sound leisure skills, leisure education can improve one’s leisure quality, tap one’s potential, and thus make one fully enjoy his or her life. Since leisure education can bring about the comprehensive development of a human being, it should receive sufficient attention as an important component of the education for all-round development. Research suggests that the leisure education among Chinese college students assumes the following characteristics: leisure time being ample, leisure awareness being insufficient, leisure motivation being unclear, leisure ways being low-leveled and lacking in collective participation, and leisure satisfaction being low. Based on the analysis of the present situation of leisure education in Chinese universities, the paper highlights the necessity and urgency of implementing leisure education in universities and proposes that leisure education should be included in the overall planning of college education. The paper concludes that leisure education among college students could be gradually improved and perfected from intensifying efforts in such aspects as theoretical studies, curriculum arrangement, intramural or extramural societies and organizations, logistic services, and social support.