AGE TECHNOLOGIES IN LEISURE ACTIVITIES

Abstract

Purpose of the Article. The research deals with the search for new approaches to the organization of leisure for the representatives of various age categories (children, teenagers, young people, adults and old people) by widening of their worldview, activation of skills, implementation of new technologies of socio-cultural activity and leisure at each stages of life cycle. Methodology. The methodology of the study includes the principles (democracy, humanism, connection with life, system and complex approaches, age social and psychological peculiarities) and the methods (education, organization of the activity, motivation) of the leisure industry in different demographic groups. The methodological approach allows us to show the nature of the personality and psychological laws of its formation at the different age stages. It also gives us an opportunity to analyse the active methods of social and psychological study, aimed at personal development, self-improvement and realization. Scientific novelty consists in the following: widening the worldview about the age limits of every step of the development, interests and possibilities of people of different ages; breaking stereotypes of leisure interests and abilities of old people; analysing the variety of the age leisure technologies such as sports and recreation, cultural technologies of the creation and developing of cultural values, technologies of social and cultural institutions of entertaining and leisure as well as ecological, organizational and social- protective ones. The analysis of the psychological peculiarities of the development of people of different ages, their leisure interests allows realizing the importance of the methods, forms and kinds of the leisure activities in accordance with the age of people. Conclusions. Use of the age technologies in leisure activities stimulates psychosocial development and recreation of a personality, harmonization of private and business relations in social groups and cultural development of a man at various stages of his life.