Inclusive Leisure as a Resource for Socio-Educational Intervention during the COVID-19 Pandemic with Care Leavers

Jorge Díaz-Esterri, Ángel De-Juanas, Rosa Goig-Martínez and Francisco Javier García-Castilla
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Jorge Díaz-Esterri: International Doctoral School, National University of Distance Education (UNED), 28015 Madrid, Spain
Ángel De-Juanas: Department of Theory of Education and Social Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, National University of Distance Education (UNED), 28015 Madrid, Spain
Rosa Goig-Martínez: Department of Methods and Diagnosis in Education, Faculty of Education, National University of Distance Education (UNED), 28015 Madrid, Spain
Francisco Javier García-Castilla: Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, National University of Distance Education (UNED), 28015 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 16, 1-13

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a reduction in leisure activities involving human contact. Social isolation has increased, particularly amongst vulnerable individuals with a fragile support network, as is the case with young people who have left care. The aim of the present research was to identify socio-educational proposals and interventions implemented during the pandemic pertaining to leisure as a form of promoting social inclusion of these young people. To this end, a qualitative study was carried out in which twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with young people who had left care system, in addition to fifteen interviews with professionals working with this group when delivering socio-educational interventions. Discourse analysis revealed that isolation due to the health crisis had greater repercussions in normalised settings in which leisure activity was reduced with this increasing risk of social inclusion amongst these young people. Proposals and experiences emerging from this setting provide evidence that socio-educational interventions targeting leisure facilitate social inclusion. In this sense, future lines of research are suggested to optimise the outcomes of socio-educational interventions within this group.

Keywords: leisure time; COVID-19; care leavers; transition to adulthood; social inclusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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