leisure pedagogy

leisure pedagogy

by: Lucia Garcia, Marta Moreno, Carlos Angel Redondo y Nerea Rodriguez

index

introduction

concept

dimensions

education

goals

characteristics

index

characteristics

purposes

pedagogy

valuation

introduction

What is?

The term leisure etymologically comes from the Latin otium, which means rest. Leisure is a person's time to rest and take advantage of it in activities that are not merely work. it is a time to do everything that the individual likes and enjoys. It is represented on vacation or at the end of work, studies... during this time you can carry out activities that human beings have a vocation for. Each person decides what they want to develop in that time dedicated to recreational activities, and that allows a time of enjoyment and peace, while disconnecting from all those activities that take place during the day is an important part of the economy. Since many businesses are dedicated precisely to satisfying this need for individuals

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Why is leisure important?

Leisure allows the development of such important personal aspects as autonomy, creativity, self-esteem or personal relationships. Leisure has a direct relationship with people's emotional well-being and therefore our mental health.

dimensions

The realization of leisure is carried out through six dimensions that are related to different lifestyles

Playful dimension

Festive dimension

Creative dimension

Sports dimension

The creative dimension of leisure is related to artistic education in aspects related to music, painting, dance, etc. It has a formative, cultural, personal development character, through learning and training. It has a purpose in itself and must be freely chosen. It is a leisure that differs from others due to its reflective nature.

Leisure-sports experiences contribute to the integral development of the person, increase motor capabilities, foster social relationships, and promote health and body hygiene habits.

The game present in free time stops being a resource, or a didactic strategy, to become a real leisure activity, freely chosen.

The party involves the gathering of several people to celebrate some event. It implies joy and entertainment

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dimensions

Ecological dimension

Solidarity dimension

It provides an encounter with nature, from a perspective of enjoyment, in which the activity carried out does not matter. What prevails above all is having fun, relaxing and recreating in the natural environments that nature provides.

Actions carried out disinterestedly, with a goal in themselves, can become part of autotelic leisure.

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CHARACTERISTICS

The general characteristics of leisure pedagogy are the following:

• - Respect autonomy and free choice. The pedagogy of leisure must be aimed at teaching how to create, not only how to consume; It must generate alternatives so that people can choose, it must promote and not replace.

• - Harmonize fun, creation and learning in leisure activities carried out in free time, both individually and collectively.

• - Respect contemplation in the face of the unbridled activism that permeates our society. Every person, in their free time, has the right to do nothing, and the idleness that comes with not doing any activity can serve not only as therapy but as a source of learning, if contemplation begins to become part of a vital need.

• - The evaluation should not be governed by utilitarian criteria; It must be carried out by analyzing the intrinsic processes of the activity itself and the degree of satisfaction it produces.

• - Help discover the pleasure generated by carrying out everyday tasks that have to be done in free time, such as taking care of a house, shopping, interacting with neighbors, etc. In this way, the value of everyday life is promoted.

• - Develop the contingency of the extraordinary, offering the opportunity to carry out activities that go beyond the daily routine.

• - Free up time for rewarding and educational leisure, properly planning free time to prevent it from being lost in activities such as traveling in large cities.

• - Stop the polarization between time, projecting to work time the positive qualities that, apparently, only free time has.

• - Participate in the training of the various institutions that are responsible for organizing free-time activities, such as clubs or play centers

• - Make individual leisure compatible with collective leisure to achieve a satisfactory encounter with oneself and others.

• - Identify harmful leisure activities and create a value system that generates the rejection of these leisure activities.

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PURPOSES

Leisure is aimed at ensuring that the person takes advantage of their available time to achieve their full fulfillment. The essential thing in free time education is that a series of human values ​​are sought that are not highlighted by other types of social offers:

• The possibility of cultural expression and creation.

• The possibility of the playful and the festive.

• The possibility of rooting with popular culture and the immediate social community.

• The possibility of free coexistence with others.

• The possibility of a deep knowledge of oneself, one's own limitations and contradictions and at the same time the possibilities themselves.

• The possibility of generating a lifestyle different from that proposed by society and particularly through free time.

• The possibility of carrying out a critical analysis of one's position before oneself, the others and things.

• The possibility of contracting a social, political, humanist commitment.

In short: rediscovering human possibilities through free time as a favorable opportunity to do so. Consider free time not as a space-time place that requires the development of activities, but simply as a framework, an occasion that allows for the recovery of what is human.

EDUCATION

They are distinguises between educate IN and FOR leisure and free time.

• Educate IN leisure and free time is directed to objectives unnaffiliated or related to leisure but is always found within a period of time of education.

• Educate FOR leisure and free time can be carried out within the framework of free time or in areas that do not have to be strictly leisure, but always with an educational objective.

GOALS

• Develop educability in any moment and place using resources and training agents.
• Stimulate the creativity and the critical spirit through the continued evaluation of values that promote knowledge and human action.
• Promote the implementation of expression capacities, participation and actuation in the social media.
• Help to get the personal autonomy through self-training processes and autonomous learning
• Awake the interest for aesthetic, artistic or sports activities.
• Integrate the processes of knowledge, reflection and action carried out by individuals and social groups close in institutional and community settings.

PEDAGOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION IN FREE TIME

PEDAGOGY: Leisure pedagogy must be an educational space where leisure and free time activities must be carried out. Direct students towards useful and beneficial activities.

• BASICS:
• -intentionality
• -Adapted to the maturity of the individual or group.
• -Motivate and stimulate
• -do not generalize
• -Encourage participation
• -personal autonomy

Its objective is to develop skills, knowledge, attitudes and values ​​from 3 different perspectives. -Educate for leisure -Educate in leisure -Educate through leisure

The valuation of leisure and free time for education in values.

Educating in values ​​with leisure and free time is necessary for greater satisfaction in leisure, where creativity, imagination, optimism and self-development predominate.

For example:activities such as physical activity, meditating, reading, drawing, taking photography,... are activities that educate in values, such as socialization, self-development, creativity, responsibility, discipline...

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by: Carlos Angel, Marta Moreno, Lucia Garcia y Nerea Rodriguez

Ecological dimension

Walks through the gardens, natural parks, the countryside, rural tourism, gardening and horticulture, outdoor sports, the beach and the mountains, school farms, nature classrooms, are some of the examples, of the natural environments that can be enjoyed, and that provide very healthy activities, especially for children and young people who live in large cities. The benefits of this type of leisure are currently supported by the principles of Environmental Education, which encourages contact with nature in a harmonious way and the development of individual and collective responsibilities for its optimal conservation.

Solidarity dimension

Until relatively few years ago, these types of activities were not related to leisure and much less were they considered activities in which people with some type of disability could participate, since they themselves were the direct recipients of said actions. The different types of solidarity activities arise from the most basic, such as collaborating in the maintenance of the house by organizing personal belongings, in the preparation of meals for the family, in home cleaning activities, in the purchase of products. of first necessity. Help a family member at work, take care of a family member, collaborate with a neighbor. Participate in some solidarity activity organized by the school, the parish, an NGO or other institutions.

Sports dimension

Sports practice can help the individual expand, feel accepted by others, be successful, learn to work as a team, be more competent and autonomous, and improve their physical fitness.

Leisure is important because...

- The immune system is positively affected. Being able to be active, developing satisfactory activities, allows defenses to increase and improve quality of life. - Renews your mood and improves sleep. - New learning possibilities open up, since activities that have not been developed before can be put into practice, and that end up being of interest to the person who executes them. - Socialization is improved. Sharing these group activities, meeting friends, doing team sports can expand the circle of friends and consolidate social relationships. - It allows the possibility of getting to know ourselves, of taking time to value what we like, to take into account what we want to implement and that is far from constant obligations. - Making good use of leisure time will help us be more efficient on a professional and personal level.

Playful dimension

From this perspective, the end of the game is the activity itself, voluntary and freely chosen. It must be spontaneous, rewarding and carried out voluntarily after a choice between several alternatives.

Festive dimension

It has a social character. The festive dimension of leisure enables high levels of enjoyment; and this not only when participating in the festive event, but both the experience of preparing a party and later remembering it, provide pleasurable sensations.

Creative dimension

The freely chosen experience that arises through contact with different artistic techniques produces a rewarding feeling of self-realization, due to the personal development that is generated through learning. The practice of creative leisure requires prior training in creativity and learning, to be able to appreciate and enjoy it. Examples of possible creative activities could be: Do manual work such as painting, sewing, modeling, DIY, etc. Make a collection, read comics, comics, magazines, newspapers, books. Do hobbies: crossword puzzles, word searches. Play an instrument, take photography and video. Attend painting, dance, theater, music, ceramics, etc. classes. Go to the cinema, theater, concert, visit an exhibition, a museum, a building, etc.