Inclusive Leisure as a Resource for Socio-Educational Intervention During COVID-19 Pandemic with Care Leavers trajectories

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a reduction in leisure activities involving human contact. Social isolation has increased, particularly amongst vulnerable individuals with a fragile support network, as is the case with young people who have left care. The aim of the present research was to identify...

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Autores: Díaz Esterri, Jorge, De-Juanas Oliva, Ángel, Goig Martínez, Rosa María, García Castilla, Francisco Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Repositorio:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/26036
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/26036
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:53 Ciencias Económicas::5312 Economía sectorial::5312.04 Educación
58 Pedagogía
leisure time
COVID-19
care leavers
transition to adulthood
social inclusion
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Sumario:The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a reduction in leisure activities involving human contact. Social isolation has increased, particularly amongst vulnerable individuals with a fragile support network, as is the case with young people who have left care. The aim of the present research was to identify socio-educational proposals and interventions implemented during the pandemic pertaining to leisure as a form of promoting social inclusion of these young people. To this end, a qualitative study was carried out in which twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with young people who had left care system, in addition to fifteen interviews with professionals working with this group when delivering socio-educational interventions. Discourse analysis revealed that isolation due to the health crisis had greater repercussions in normalised settings in which leisure activity was reduced with this increasing risk of social inclusion amongst these young people. Proposals and experiences emerging from this setting provide evidence that socio-educational interventions targeting leisure facilitate social inclusion. In this sense, future lines of research are suggested to optimise the outcomes of socio-educational interventions within this group.