La recreación: un camino para la educación ambiental

Abstract

When the subject of recreation is approached from the environmental dimension, two approaches are possible The first one has the pretext of being understood as a series of activities that are related to the care of the natural environment that man has not yet intervened, and which is reduced to developing tasks as part of people's free time, but which have no transcendence in their lives. This is when we can talk about ecological activism, since all its theory is centered on situations related to ecology but not to the environment. The second optic, on the other hand, is assumed as the tendency to believe that recreation is related to the environment, at the moment in which the activity is developed in an open field and in contact with nature. Therefore, it must be understood that recreation is not a complementary activity but on the contrary, it must be developed as part of the human being's life project. Recreation should be explained as part of the real free time that the person has and which serves as a space for relaxation and relaxation that is reached as a result of a need both physical and mental, therefore, recreation can be done in any environment (home, office, park, among others) but requires a favorable environment for its implementation. Taking as a reference the framework above. The present text first offers a vision of how recreation has been considered through time, then shows some concepts related to recreation and ends with the description of some possible activities that can be developed as an alternative to educate the environment through recreation.