Education, Leisure and Society

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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%).

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.

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

• - Frequency - 30.0%
• - Individual and/or Group Work - 70.0%

• - Exam - 100.0%

NAO

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