CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ON STAGE: VIEWS AND CONSIDERATIONS ON DIFFERENCES FROM A SUMMER CAMP EVENT

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.5584322428104

• Palavras-chave: Children, Youth, Leisure, Education.

• Keywords: Children, Youth, Leisure, Education.

• Abstract:

  Comics, films, advertisements, internet videos and social media content are strong influencers of people in today's societies, and it is essential to mediate meaning through educational processes and education for and through leisure. Society's situation at this stage of industrial production and consumption favours the culture industry, which generates standardized needs to facilitate consumption, perpetuating or making it difficult to overcome the situation of conformism. It is therefore essential to have an educational process that encourages creative imagination and a critical spirit, which instead of generating needs, as the media does, satisfies individual and social needs, including educational needs, which are transformed throughout the life process. In this work, we produce and interpret systematic observations made at a summer camp. Approximately 50 subjects aged between 10 and 14 took part in the event. The analysis consists of reading the character creations produced by the Summer Camp participants in the light of language, education and leisure studies. The characters created are in the public domain and are widely circulated in everyday life and in the media. When they are incorporated, they take on new meanings, constituting a process of education for the visibility of differences and the fight against prejudice.