THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF SOCIAL SPORTS AND LEISURE AGENTS: INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE PELC TRAINING PROCESS IN JARDIM LAVINIA SPORTS CENTER, IN SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO

Abstract

The City Sports and Leisure Program (PELC) is a public policy for the promotion of leisure and recreational sports, promoted by the Federal Government, in action of the Ministry of Sports in partnership with the States, Municipalities and / or Entities of the Private Initiative. In this sense, we understand that a program to promote leisure and recreational sports, by including as its axis of action, the continuous training of its agents, presenting a proposal for intervention in the area, deserves to be the subject of study and reflection. Thus, the general objective of this article is to investigate and reflect on the process of continuous training of social agents of sports and leisure linked to the Program, as an instrument for professional training of social agents of leisure and recreational sports, verifying possible implications in the work Developed in the communities, in particular, the work developed at the Jardim Lavínia Sports Center, in the city of São Bernardo do Campo. As a methodology, the article was developed through a combination of bibliographical, documentary and empirical research, based on content analysis Of legal documents on the PELC, or through participant observation. As main results we understand that the process of professional training of social agents of leisure and recreational sports presented by the PELC in Jardim Lavínia Sports Center used a methodology of work with the objective of transforming society, starting from the principle of the valorization of the local culture and seeking the expansion of the Same, without denying the previous one. The concern to train citizens who can consciously and critically enjoy their moments of leisure, appropriating the different possible contents, was the proposal that when entering a Sports Center, such as that located on the outskirts of a large city in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, is able to present social transformations, albeit simple, but capable of re-signifying the use of a public space, making it more democratic and accessible to all.