Extracurricular Activities As Stimuli Of The Leisure In Adulthood

Abstract

Participation in extracurricular activities at school is one way in which child exercises his right to play which is later, in part, modified into the right of the adult to an adequate choice of leisure activities. The role and significance of extracurricular activities is irreplaceable in training young people to use their leisure time in a well thought-out and organised manner. Properly directed extracurricular activities, as part of the activities carried out during one’s leisure time, could have a strong bearing on developing the use of leisure time in and out of school. The reflection of this influence is surely evident not only in youth, but also later in life. The subject of our paper was the relationship between leisure time use in adulthood (factual and value) on the one hand, and extracurricular activities engaged in during the previous period of education. The aim is to establish whether, to what extent and how participation in the free activities organised at school interferes educational preparedness for leisure time use during adulthood. The results we obtained imply some interesting conclusions. We found the confirmation of the complex role played by the school, teachers and the community at large in the interrelationship between extracurricular activities engaged in in youth and the adequate utilisation of leisure in adulthood.