LEISURE AND SPORTS IN SCHOOL CONTRACTS IN BELO HORIZONTE/MG

Abstract

The after-school programs developed in the municipal education system in the city of Belo Horizonte, more specifically, the Integrated School and Second Time Programs interact with the school's dynamics and sometimes cause juxtaposition in the implementation of their actions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the production of the imaginary of leisure and sport in a peripheral’s school in the city. Thirty-seven interviews were conducted and analyzed that produced discourses about leisure and sport. The research was based on the policy cycle to reflect the political and social practices unfolded in the dynamics of the school. The fields of discourse analysis and social representation were used to treat the data produced by the research subjects. The idea that sport is health, away from drugs, combats violence, is competition, and is leisure permeates the school's discursive practices. The consensual imaginary of this social practice moves little towards its concreteness in social reality. The discourses of leisure perceived in school practice allow me to mean it as an instrument for inducing a disciplined conduct expected and solidified in the context of the production of its representation, as well as fun or entertainment necessary for the 'needy' scene in which the afterschool programs are inserted.