ABSTRACT

Leisure and health are human rights that apply to both children and adults. Leisure can enhance health and enable people to participate fully in leisure activities. One of children’s main opportunities for leisure is during school holidays. Little previous research has focused on this time in children’s lives. This paper presents a review of the literature surrounding school holidays, providing a critique of educational and public health approaches that focus narrowly on children’s future outcomes that may be associated with how they spend their time during these leisure periods. It argues that a more sociological understanding, rooted within child-centred approaches to leisure, provides the opportunity for children’s agency, participation and citizenship to be investigated more fully.

摘要

休闲和健康是适用于儿童和成人的人权。休闲可以增强健康，使人们能够充分参与休闲活动。学校放假期间是孩子们主要的休闲机会之一。以前很少有研究关注儿童生活中的这个时期。本文回顾了有关学校假期的文献，对教育和公共卫生方法提出了批评，这些方法狭隘地关注儿童未来的结果，这些结果可能与他们在这些休闲时间如何度过时间有关。它认为，植根于以儿童为中心的休闲方法的更加社会学的理解为儿童的能动性、参与性和公民身份提供了更全面调查的机会。