Leisure, education and public policy in emerging countries: reflections on the case Brazilian

Abstract

The problematic that is approached in this paper concerns about the lack of effectiveness of non-sectorial policies that act with the education of children, adolescents and young Brazilians, especially the ones from the most disadvantaged social class. It sustains the thesis that political sector of leisure and education may introduce a critical and emancipatory educational movement, when focusing on the individual, on his human essence and life as a superior and first instance, surpassing elements such as merchandising and reaching the not-merchandising. The aim was to reflect, examining the possibilities of proposals for qualitative leaps in Education, through the expansion of sectorial policies, approaching that of leisure in its paramount importance to the process of human and social development. It was assumed that the most economically advantaged class have, on account of their social locus, more training opportunities with the leisure, but neither they are safeguarded, if socially they are not guaranteed legislatively, the time to be children, adolescents and young adults. Nor from enjoying the leisure of free time if the work to be the only objective being reached or if the entertainment to be provided for the "goods". The article recalls the need for Education for formation of the person, for freedom, making choices for observed paths. It searched to overcome the classical vision of development through educational models "behind walls" of Brazilian schools, and that can not be resolved without any change of political and economic landscape. It alerts to the need of adjustments to the socio-economical system for the life of man and not the man to adapt to this, which has created imbalance between nations and homeostasis through sectorial public policies proposed from a "whole" well-structured. It follows that sociological studies, educational and cultural on leisure, education and public policies are significant when addressed together.