Leisure, Policy and Education. Insights and challenges twenty five centuries after Aristotle
Carmen Palmero Cámara, Jesús Jiménez Martín y Alfredo Jiménez Eguizábal
This paper aims to rehabilitate leisure as one of the fundamental components of educational policy planning. Drawing on an epistemological and longitudinal analysis on leisure, we show how criteria and actions may be used to face educational challenges. This is precisely a very relevant topic nowadays, as democratic societies need, perhaps more than ever, to educate their members are free citizens, able to participate in the decision planning and taking processes. Our main argument is embedded in the first great synthesis of policy, education and
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