Education, Leisure and Society

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

The syllabus are developed through expository methods, flipped classroom, problem/project-based learning, experimentation/reflection, field trips, and cooperative and collaborative learning.

The assessment process will be carried out by continuous assessment or by examination.

By continuous assessment:
A) Theoretical assessment (30%)
B) Theoretical-practical assessment (70%)

The exam will consist exclusively of a TP test (100%).

Learning Results

1. Contextualize the leisure within the social sciences approaches, applying their different concepts and perspectives in order to understand the evolution of the relationship between leisure and other areas of social life, and identify the social determinants to accessing leisure, in order to design projects, programs and policies to eliminate the access disparities in to leisure activities;
2. Understand the concepts of leisure and culture in order to understand the processes of change within the framework of cultural development;
3. Identify the importance of Education as/through/for Leisure in different intervention contexts, in order to develop projects with different groups.

Program

1. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS IN THE STUDY OF LEISURE
1.1. Historical and sociocultural notes on Leisure
1.2. Theoretical perspectives on Leisure
1.3. Importance of leisure and recognition of its benefits at an individual and social level
1.4. Social constraints on access to Leisure
1.5. Social trends in leisure
1.6. Leisure and (new) social movements
2. LEISURE, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
2.1. Conceptual relations between leisure and culture
2.2. Popular culture, mass culture and high culture
2.3. Leisure and cultural practices
2.4. Leisure, culture and lifestyles
3. EDUCATION AND LEISURE
3.1. Relations between Education and Leisure: Education by/for/as Leisure
3.2. Education and Leisure Contexts and Practices
3.3. Innovation and social entrepreneurship in Education and Leisure

Grading Methods

Continuing Evaluation
  • - Individual and/or Group Work - 70.0%
  • - Frequency - 30.0%
Exam
  • - Exam - 100.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

Alves, E., & Melo, V. (2003). Introdução ao lazer. Barueri: Manole.
Harvey, J. et al. (2014). Sport and Social Movements From the Local to the Global. Bloomsbury.
Haworth, J., & Veal, A. (2004). Work and Leisure. New York: Routledge.
Jackson, E. (2005). Constraints to Leisure. State College: Venture Publishing.
Melo, R., & Simões-Correia, J. (2021, abril). Leisure Education, Social Innovation andSocial Entrepreneurship: Current Perspectives in Portugal. In 16th World Leisure Hybrid Congress. Beijing, China.
Melo, R. (2013). Desportos de Natureza e Desenvolvimento Local Sustentável (Tese de doutoramento não publicada). Coimbra: UC.
Roberts, K. (2001). Leisure in Contemporary Society. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
Sivan, A., & Stebbins, R. (2014). Leisure Education: A Cross-National View. London: Routledge.
Veal, A. (2000). Leisure and Lifestyle. Sydney: Online Bibliography 8.
Trilla, J. (2004). Animação sociocultural: teorias, programas e âmbitos. Lisboa: Instituto Piaget.