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What is recreation?

Introduction
2.Recreation
3.Types of Recreation
4.Importance of recreation
5.Principles of Recreation
6.Recreation Instruments
7.Application of recreation in a Company
8.Conclusions
9.Bibliographic references

Introduction
Recreation refers to all kinds of distractions both inside and outside of work for any age and it
it contrasts with the idea of work in the following way: In recreation or leisure, one does what they enjoy,
while one does the work even if they don't like it, without invading the definition of Recreation within the
I work when it is pleasurable. The reason that leads a person to engage in an activity is what
Can you determine if it is for pleasure (recreational), for obligation (work), or for pleasure in search of a
need (pleasurable work). The fast pace of modern life, the search that man is on in every
one of its stages establishes to achieve a human personality, full of dignity, of a whole
adaptation to life leads us to determine that it is important to develop recreational activities
constructive in the child; not only through the direct application of play as play but through the realization of
pleasant activities that leave knowledge of progress for a broader future, in which the
recreation is an art in the social improvement of the human being.
It is important that the action of education towards the development of the child, as well as that of the adult, is seen.
surrounded by methods that, instead of being imposed and mandatory, are of a recreational-constructive type for
that they themselves explore their own abilities using activities that entertain them and develop their skills
skills, for this we need teachers to perfect recreational skills and abilities
as a complement to regular education, modifying the methodology used until today, reinforcing it
previous with a follow-up on the achievements obtained by each of the students.
Based on the above, we will notice in the groups that children with superior abilities will appear.
assimilation and skills that we can take advantage of to encourage the development of the slowest and in this
ways to stimulate existing leadership inclinations.
We cannot think that all work is dependent on school activity because life
Family plays an important role in the development of the child and, later, of the adult.
Recreation is the positive attitude of the individual towards life in the development of activities for the
time, that allows them to transcend the limits of consciousness and achieve biological and social balance, that
and as a result, good health and a better quality of life.

Recreation
The concept of recreation is understood if we think that from the beginning, men and women have
they are subjected to various types of pressures that over time create fatigue and therefore, discouragement. It is
for this reason people have sought ways to escape the pressures of daily living and give themselves
spaces where they can rest and enjoy.
The Royal Spanish Academy defines recreation as the action and effect of recreating and as entertainment for
relief from work. Furthermore, we will find that recreating means to amuse, lighten, or delight. In terms of
We also call this fun entertainment.
According to that definition, recreating must necessarily include fun or having a good time, with the aim of
to distract oneself from demands, especially work-related, and thus achieve a necessary relief to cope
again, another stage of responsibilities, with renewed energy that will allow for a better outcome of
they.
Recreation is also associated with the intellectual and educational factor. Research has shown
that children learn much more in relaxed environments, without pressure. That is why recreation is
fundamental for the intellectual development of individuals. At the same time, recreation provides in itself, a
form of learning, through personal experiences and the person's relationship with the outside.

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Finally, it is important to know that recreation is voluntary, as each person is different and for
In the end, it is recreated as one sees fit. That is why it is also said that recreational activities are so
as numerous as human interests. Some areas of recreation are: diffusion,
art, culture, music, dance, reading, community service, sports, games, and life
outdoor, among others.
Recreation: It is what one does for the pleasure found in it, with no other reward than the pure.
activity; not contributing to earning a living.
The difference between work and recreation does not depend on the action performed, but on the purpose.
what is done.
Set of bodily and emotional experiences that derive from practice organized and
permanent leisure activities of a sports, artistic, social, and civic nature.
It is any voluntary activity carried out in free time that brings with it a rest.
physical and psychic producing well-being, pleasure, and enjoyment.
It is to recreate. It is the renewal of a physical or emotional situation; to recreate enthusiasm, the
joy, the desire to do things.
Recreation is thus the desire to live happily.

Types of Recreation
Recreation can be active or passive. Active recreation involves action, specifically referring to the
a person who enjoys the services they provide. On the other hand, passive recreation
it occurs when the individual receives recreation without cooperating in it, because he enjoys the recreation without
to resist her. For example, going to the movies. On the other hand, camps stimulate the
physical and intellectual possibilities of the young.
Games: These games can be developed in each of the individual and team sports.
Among these games we have traditional, pre-sport, intellectual, and social games.
Cultural and Social Expression: They are responsible for the creation of creative objectives, representations and
organization of teams through sports and recreational clubs. Their purpose is to organize,
plan and direct the execution of a specific sports or recreational activity according to its objectives and
objectives. Example of these clubs son The of hiking y mountaineering.
Outdoor life: These are activities that take place in a natural environment, allowing for
integration of the individual with nature, preserving natural resources and making good use of
free time. Its characteristics are: Knowledge about natural parks, recreational parks and
natural monuments, arrangement of the backpack and tents, conservation and reforestation, knowledge of the
characteristics and equipment for excursions and camping.
Characteristics:
They are free, spontaneous, and natural activities.
It is universal.
It is generally done in what is called free time.
Produces satisfaction and pleasure.
Offers opportunities for rest and compensation.
Offers opportunities for creation and expression.
involves activities that are generally self-motivated and voluntary.
It is serious by nature and requires the participant's concentration.
It is a state of creative expression.
It is constructive and beneficial for the individual and society.
Sometimes it can provide economic benefits.

Importance of recreation
Maintains the balance between daily routine and pleasurable activities, to avoid the
premature death of youth.
Enriches people's lives.
Contribute to human happiness.
It contributes to development and physical well-being.

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It is discipline.
It is identity and expression.
As a group value, it subordinates selfish interests.
Promotes civic qualities.
Prevents crime.
It is cooperation, loyalty, and companionship.
Educate society for the proper use of free time.
Provide an acceptable means of recreational expression.

Principles of Recreation
Provide all children with the opportunity to engage in activities that promote their development.
climb, jump, run, dance, sing, dramatize, do crafts, build, model.....
Every child needs to discover which activities bring them personal satisfaction and must be
helped to acquire skills in those activities.
Every man should be encouraged to have one or more hobbies...
The happy game of childhood is essential for normal growth.
One form of recreational satisfaction is to cooperate as a citizen in the construction of a
better way of life to share with the whole community.
A man adequately fulfills his recreation when the activity he chooses creates in him a spirit of
game and constantly find pleasure in all the events of your life.
Rest, relaxation, and reflection are forms of recreation that should not be replaced by
other active forms
Everyone should know some songs so they can sing when they feel like it.
Collective action is necessary to give boys and girls the opportunity to live that
aspect of life.
The forms of recreation for adults should be those that allow them to employ those abilities that
does not use in the other areas of his activity.
Educational Value of Recreation.
As an educational value, it establishes a set of values that contribute to the formation of the individual.
He puts his resources in favor of the student, for the correlation of intellectual areas.
It allows for the integral development of the person.
Integrate the person into the community.
It allows the transmission of cultural heritage.
It is achieved through hobbies and the strengthening of intellectual, aesthetic, ethical, and...
morales
Promotes the constructive use of free time.
Socially adapt the child.
Self-discipline in the student.
Gives the opportunity to practice command situations.

Recreation Instruments
Plastic arts.
Performing arts.
Musical arts.
Communication.
Physical Education and Sports.
Visual Arts.
The Plastic Arts contribute to the comprehensive development of the child as they awaken in him the appreciation for
art, analytical ability, constructive criticism; and at the same time develop aesthetic taste to
through observation and provoke the recreation of their senses on a topic they feel and live.

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The role of the teacher is to stimulate observation, provide enriching experiences, not
teach techniques, not impose models, remember that every graphic expression represents individuality of
his author.
A creative child who has developed their own form of expression will also be an individual.
analytical, capable of judging their own work and that of their peers in a healthy way.
Performing Arts.
Due to their magical character, puppets should be a link to the child's playful world.
Didactic, puppets should be an educational tool in the classroom, in the playground and everywhere.
teaching-learning process.
We must say that puppets are for the child an element of their play, which causes the child to use them.
understand puppets as something "yours."
When the child watches a comic told with puppets, they take ownership of the characters, shout at them, they
he deceives, asks them, in short participates in the plot alongside the characters. If we are unaware of this
we will fall into the same mistake as always; which is, to think that the child behaves in front of the puppets with
the same repressed attitude that he takes towards the teacher in the classroom... "The puppets must amuse
always; no matter how pedagogical their objectives are, they will never be the frivolous replacement of the teacher.
Puppets allow man to coexist with the unreal, recreating or making moments more serene.
the adversities of life.
Fantasy, joy, and laughter are as essential as science, art, and labor. Life would be
bored if it lacked pleasure, recreation as a fundamental ingredient.
The Musical Arts:
Setting: sound effects, singing voices.
The literary arts: Script, Texts.
The arts of movement: Dances, choreography, puppetry, acting.
The Communication.
Communication is a solution to the human problem of survival.
Dramatizations, representations, verses, poems, methodical readings, gesticulations, etc., are very
usual in rural areas unlike the resources available in some urban sectors.
Television and Radio:
They are means that daily idiotize the audience due to their contents that are alien to social reality.
develop a questionnaire that they have to answer orally in class. This same process is used with
radio programs (reportages, reports, etc.).
This fulfills a need for visual entertainment characteristic of recent times while also
partially neutralizes the tendency of programmers to underestimate the intelligence of viewers.
It is a more practical, simple, and manageable resource than the previous ones; moreover, it is more conducive to the
verification of compliance with recreation.
Newspapers:
Newspaper is a term that encompasses a wide range of publications. The most common of newspapers
It is of the type ink and paper. In schools or colleges, there are two basic types: wall newspaper and flyer newspaper.
The purpose of their existence is to inform. The initiative, creativity, and induction of the largest number of
Collaborators and the search for low costs are part of success.
Concluding with modern communication, it has become a contradiction to try to educate solely.
building schools and hiring teachers. We are in the era of visuals and audiovisuals. The
Clarity, motivation, and effectiveness are achieved through images and sounds. Better teacher training.
it is part of the educational success of any program.
Area of Physical and Sports Activities.
Part of the movement as a necessity for survival in primitive man, and subsequently goes through
stages that indicate different paths: preparation for war, expressiveness of the self, play,
competition, show, use of leisure time, preparation for life... arriving today at the conception
scientific.
Within the area of recreation, we find a series of physical activities that allow for
individual expresses themselves naturally as a human being in terms of free and creative movement; the
movement as action 'expresses something' or rather it communicates a need that one has, like for
example, the imitation of a horse related to its way of acting while running, galloping, or walking. It is known that
Communication has a center of expression which is language that can be oral, written, or expressive.
corporal and in accordance with the area of physical activities. Basically, we will use a language
expressive-corporeal.

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Activities such as games or team sports in small groups can be developed.

both in our classrooms and in the open work field to promote in this way
the interrelation between individual and nature in the execution of formal physical activities or contact
creative making use of the elements of the medium.
Characteristics:
They are activities that promote spontaneity and creativity.
Usually led by a game or sports director
Formative in terms of discipline and group integration.
They offer the opportunity to rest while interacting with nature.
It allows to assess the true use of the elements of nature.
They can be carried out in any area of meadow even if it is small.
Offers the child the opportunity to start engaging in physical-recreative activities, which later will
they can help fill the free hours in your adult life.
The Benefits of Recreation.
Recreation is a basic human right, just like education, work, and health. No one
must be deprived of this right for reasons of gender, sexual orientation, age, race, creed,
health status, disability or economic condition. The development of leisure is facilitated through the
provision of basic living conditions such as security, shelter, income, education,
sustainable resources, equity, and social justice.
Applicability Suggestions:
Participation in the organization and execution of social activities such as events or celebrations
inside the school.
Practice of recreational activities in outings to public places or places where nature is the base.
for rest.

Application of recreation in a company

Any company has the infrastructure and human capacity to organize events.
corporate meetings and work meetings, New Year's Eve, Labor Day, in any facility or in the
the company we work for must have prior verification of them, guaranteeing the service
necessary in the development and satisfaction of their needs to implement the necessary recreation
workers.
Social, recreational, and entertainment events, as well as sporting events, should be organized, since the
Sport is a fundamental part of recreation and the healthy life of employees, it is also a factor
determining factor for integration and good job performance that results in greater productivity for a
the company should organize competitive and integration meetings for employees to participate.
Open tournaments: competitive sports tournaments with cash prizes, aimed at generating
effort, overcoming, and commitment in the workers of our companies, in which they will be able to
evaluate their performance in different disciplines and will be motivated to wear and 'sweat the shirt' of their
organization.
Auditory recreation can also be applied, for example in an office, in a pleasant environment.
programming soft music on the computers. This way, the employee would work relaxed and increase their
performance level and would reduce the stress caused by so much visual work.
The recreational workshop, more than just an activity, will be a playful space and an opportunity for those who participate.
advance your knowledge on a topic pleasantly, find elements to expand
its relational capacity, develop skills and potentials of itself and expand its capacity of
expression through a process that leads to a creation, the product of their effort and work,
enriching their process of humanization.

Conclusions
The need and importance of Recreation for man and society is manifested, where
different authors and scholars of the subject demonstrate common elements when issuing a
conceptualization about Recreation.

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It is noted that there are benefits for man and society, benefits in comprehensive health Physical Emotional -
Mental - Spiritual - Social, in perfect balance. Their approach to nature and development of values.
Pedagogical, Sociological, and Psychological; contributing Recreation to the comprehensive formation of the individual.
Recreation takes into account the entire concept of the integrity of man as a biological entity -
psychological - social in all its extension and aspects where the individual in school age unfolds
Since recreation is a human need, it is considered fundamental in the improvement of
quality of life of man. It is presented as an unconventional means of education, where the
individual learns by doing about their own experiences becoming a means of Integral
learning.
There is a large classification of areas of Recreation and they are presented as follows: Dissemination;
art and culture; educational; social; sports and recreational; outdoor life, in the last one there is the activity of
Camps, which is presented as an alternative where a wide range can be developed
activities, involving all the areas mentioned and where in reality the students will put in
practice true Recreation with its values, objectives, principles, and desires to do things well, in
benefit themselves and gain experience for their future life, with the development of values that
they will lead to being beings suitable for society with a better quality of life.

Bibliographic references
Monografias.com (2006, February 15) (Online Web Page).
Encyclopedic Student Dictionary Ocean
www.Drawingsrecreativos.com
www.elrincondelvago.com

DEDICATION
To all those beings whose only goal in life is to improve their own and that of others.
To our colleagues who participated in the same during our academic preparation,
direct authors of our preparation together with us, to them Graciela González; Nacari
Beautiful; Jesús Abreu; Mary Cruz Mota.
AMercedes Torres, teacher and friend, who guided us in the development of this work, and offered us the
better of your knowledge to increase our professional opportunities in the field of
recreation and academia.
At the Bolivarian University of Venezuela Misión Sucre, which allowed us to come together, to enrich the
previously acquired knowledge, providing us with a masterful space for academic development.
To my Venezuela, a country immensely rich in its natural resources, culture, and potential
intellectual of its people.

Author:
Haydee Mayora
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