Abstract
Time atomisation trends, leisure economy, and social and technological changes are causing a reframe of the leisure and free-time industry. This study aims to analyse the assessment of nine cross-cutting contents by the main agents involved in leisure-time instructor courses, and a group of young subjects in Spain. The study sample consisted of 1049 individuals, including management and technical teams, leisure and free-time schoolteachers, leisure and free-time school students (receiving the leisure-time instructor course), and finally a group of external young subjects. An ad hoc questionnaire was used, and the results were analysed through a correlational study using contingency tables and chi-square and Somers’ D statistics, Spearman’s correlation to determine within-population correlations, and the Kruskal–Wallis test to establish that these relationships were not randomly established. The results show that all the analysed agents valued the training proposal of cross-cutting contents as a consolidated item. This indicates that the nine cross-cutting contents should be maintained in these courses. Social Skills content was crowned as the defining content of this training, and there was dissonance in the ICT-Use content, which was not highly valued by main agents but was highly valued by young people, leading to the need to review this content to adjust it to the real needs of the young population.
Highlights
Leisure can take many forms, meanings, and natures, which are continuously changing [1,2]
It should be noted that Associationism in relation to citizen participation was highly valued by students and young people in general, whereas schools and teachers did not attach as much importance to it
A dissonant value was found in the valuation of information and communication technologies (ICT) Use in Leisure and Free-Time Programmes, where schools, teachers, and students rated it in last place, whereas young people considered it a priority, even above Social Skills contents
Summary
Leisure can take many forms, meanings, and natures, which are continuously changing [1,2]. Leisure contributes to the search for meaning in people’s lives [3]. It is focused on human development, what people can do and be [4] based on their opportunities [5] to give meaning to their life [6]. We live in an atomised time that slips away from us because nothing is concluded [7]. Leisure has become an unstoppable and insufferable experience of doing everything, but at the same time doing nothing. Routines deprive human beings of the capacity for permanence and the faculty of contemplation
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