Apropriação dos espaços de lazer pela comunidade do bairro da Liberdade: entre o direito social e a educação não formal

Abstract

Considering that throughout history the city has been in a constant process of construction and transformation, in order to be occupied and give meaning and meaning to the environment, becoming a place that enables social interactions, correlation between individuals and spaces, showing essential for the development of diverse phenomena, such as leisure, the spaces available in cities must present full conditions to be appropriated by all people in society, and it is up to public authorities to ensure that all citizens can experience their rights in these spaces, legally established social activities, making these experiences viable not only in the central areas of cities, but making it necessary to stimulate, raise awareness and support leisure activities, including in places that remain stigmatized and lacking in the public and academic gaze, as well as a better infrastructure, such as peripheral areas. Therefore, this study sought to investigate how phenomena such as leisure are experienced in a peripheral region of Salvador-BA, the neighborhood of Liberdade, aiming to understand the relationship between the spaces identified by the residents of the neighborhood of Liberdade as spaces of leisure and access to leisure as a social right, as well as the possibility of non-formal education through leisure education in these spaces. This is an exploratory research, with a qualitative character. To proceed with this study, a field survey was carried out, developed with residents of the Liberdade neighborhood, in Salvador-BA, through the application of an online questionnaire with a structured script, via Google Forms. Each questionnaire could be accessed virtually by people interested in participating in the study, being available to receive responses during a period of 1 (one) month, which was made available in August 2022. From then on, following the established inclusion and exclusion criteria, 18 (eighteen) responses were valid for analysis. For data analysis, the questions were segmented, systematized, organized into categories and a content analysis was performed. Through the results obtained, it was possible to determine the sociodemographic profile of the social actors participating in the research, to understand what residents of the Liberdade neighborhood understand as a social right, the meaning of leisure for these people, how these residents experience leisure and life. importance of leisure spaces for residents of the neighborhood. In this sense, it is understood that it is extremely important to provide access to city environments and leisure, as this is a fundamental phenomenon for human life, which must be experienced equally by all individuals in society, which is unrelated to of a marketing character and is more focused on human and cultural principles, directed to the most diverse fields of interest of each person by their free choice and provided in the widest possible way, capable of providing opportunities for improvement in the quality of life and countless benefits, including educational ones through of non-formal education for people, so that in this way leisure becomes a social right.