NZQA registered unit standard
6899 version 5
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Title
Examine the implications that concepts of culture have for recreation
Level
4
Purpose
Credits
4
This unit standard is intended for a person working in a
recreation role.
People credited with this unit standard are able to examine: a
culture in terms of societal characteristics; how culture shapes
individual and collective identity; and the implications that
concepts of culture have for recreation policy and provision.
Classification
Recreation and Sport > Recreation and Sport - Core Skills
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Recommended skills
and knowledge
Unit 6896, Demonstrate knowledge of recreation, or demonstrate
equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
Definitions
Concepts of culture include spiritual, intellectual, physical, social, and emotional aspects.
They are evidenced in rituals, festivals, arts, sport, leisure, and recreation. Culture involves
patterns of behaviour, values, and belief systems, and sets boundaries between what is
acceptable and not acceptable, and what is legitimate and not legitimate to a particular
society.
Recreation is an activity through which leisure may be experienced and enjoyed.
Recreation involves freely chosen activities engaged in for wellbeing. Recreation activities
include: sport, fitness and health, art and crafts, outdoor pursuits, hobbies, continuing
education, ngā mahi a te rēhia, and activities with a service orientation. Participation in
recreation has individual, community, and social benefits.
Selected recreation policy means the recreation policy of the candidate’s workplace.
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NZQA registered unit standard
6899 version 5
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Examine a culture in terms of societal characteristics.
Range
characteristics may include – family, religion, ethnicity, industrialisation,
community and/or societal structures and processes, living patterns, urban or rural
settlement, justice, life stage, lifestyle, values and beliefs, political, economic.
Evidence requirements
1.1
A selected culture is examined in terms of its societal characteristics.
1.2
The examination describes the relationships between the identified societal
characteristics.
Outcome 2
Examine how culture shapes individual and collective identity.
Range
collective identity may include – belief systems, shared norms and values,
common purpose, patterns of communication, rituals.
Evidence requirements
2.1
The examination describes the influence of culture upon the individual's identity.
2.2
The examination describes the influencing factors of culture upon collective
identity.
2.3
The examination describes the relationships between individual identity, collective
identity, and culture.
Outcome 3
Examine the implications that concepts of culture have for recreation policy and provision.
Evidence requirements
3.1
The examination describes the relationship between culture and concepts of
recreation.
Range
concepts of recreation – time, activity, experience.
3.2
The examination describes a selected recreation policy in terms of culture.
3.3
The examination describes the inter-relationship and influence of culture on
recreation policy and provision.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
Planned review date
6899 version 5
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31 December 2012
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
25 June 1996
31 December 2012
Revision
2
14 February 2000
31 December 2012
Review
3
22 January 2002
31 December 2012
Review
4
12 February 2010
31 December 2012
Rollover and
Revision
5
20 May 2011
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, or
an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can
report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading
to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMRs). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Skills Active Aotearoa Limited info@skillsactive.org.nz if you wish to
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Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016