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What do other people do for leisure? What does leisure mean to them? What gets in the way of people having leisure? Do markers of identity (e.g., age, gender identity/expression, race/ethnicity, sexual identity, etc.) influence people’s leisure? These are the kinds of questions you’ll be asking people about to better understand the process of engaging in leisure research and you’ll be looking at some leisure journals to help you “interpret” your findings.

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Leisure is defined as freedom from work, school or other responsibilities and tasks. An example of leisure is a time when one is temporarily released from other compulsory, but unpaid duties, such as child care, home or other maintenance, or personal obligations and matters. Examples of leisure activities are bicycling, bowling, curling, hiking/walking, and swimming. However, not all leisure activities are sportive. Some people would rather spend their free time painting, drawing, reading, listening to music or meditating. Leisure time allows people to step back, physically but most important, mentally, from stress. Your mind and body will tune, you will feel relaxed. During leisure activities, you will be disconnected from the outside world. You will be empowering yourself to deal with situations in a less stressful way. However, gender identity, age, race/ethnicity do get in the way of people having leisure. For example, men spend more time than women in leisure activities. The gender gap is about five hours per week.

for the school to discriminate against or victimise a person, in the arrangements it makes in deciding who is offered admission to school and with regards to the terms on which it offers to admit a pupil.

Study from Code of Practice for Schools (2001 p5)

‘A pupil seeking admission who has Tourette’s syndrome is being interviewed for a place at the school. He makes inappropriate comments during the interview and for this reason is not selected for admission. The fact that the school did not know that the pupil had Tourette’s syndrome may not be a defence because no attempt was made by the school to establish if there was a particular reason for this behaviour. His could constitute unlawful discrimination arising from a disability’.

This case study and that the C of P clearly state that all SEN students must be treated fairly within schools’ admissions policies and without discrimination as described in the Equality Act.

What actions stated in the EA have an effect on SEN students in schools?

As previously mentioned the EA (2010) brought together the numerous anti-discrimination laws and the EA makes it illegal to discriminate against a person with a disability. Within schools it is illegal to adopt policies which maybe illegal against students with a disability.

Direct discrimination as described under the EA would involve less favourable treatment ‘because of a protected characteristic’. The EA (2010) is clear that any form of direct dis

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