Tribute to Karla A. Henderson

• Published in: Journal of leisure research Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 240 - 242
• Main Authors: Dustin, Daniel L., Bialeschki, M. Deborah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Urbana Routledge 01.04.2014; Sagamore Publishing; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Appreciation; Associations; Authors; Awards; Awards & honors; Baseball; Camping; Camps; College faculty; College teachers; College teachers as authors; Colleges & universities; Community Relations; Department Heads; Females; Feminism; Graduate students; High school basketball; Leisure; Leisure activities; Leisure Education; Leisure Time; Parks; Parks & recreation areas; Periodicals; Physical education; Presidents; Qualitative research; Research Methodology; Science; Specialists; Teaching Methods; Tourism; Women; Writers; Young Children; United States; United States > US; Iowa
• ISSN: 0022-2216; 2159-6417
• DOI: 10.1080/00222216.2014.11950323

Karla Henderson earned a bachelor of science degree in physical education from Iowa State (1971) and worked for five years as a 4-H Youth Development Extension Specialist. She then earned a master's in education with an emphasis in guidance and counseling from Iowa State (1976), followed by a PhD in education with an emphasis in recreation, park, and leisure studies from the University of Minnesota (1979). Her first academic posting was a split assignment as an assistant professor and recreation extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.While at Madison, a group of graduate students approached Henderson and asked why women's voices were silent in leisure studies. Without a satisfactory answer, she challenged her students to co-design a seminar in "women's leisure", thus marking the beginning of a 35 year scholarly agenda that has changed the way the field of recreation, park, and leisure studies thinks about women, leisure, gender, feminism, diversity and qualitative research methodology.