Social inclusion from the practice of physical-sports-recreational activity

Abstract

The social policy of a country is inclusive by nature when its state recognizes educational services as a right of all people, with or without disabilities, regardless of the context in which they find themselves. For the latter, physical-educational, sports and recreational practice contributes to their incorporation into social and work life, as physically active entities, useful to society, with equal rights and equity. This study aimed to: analyze the features and potential of physical-educational sports and recreational practice as a space for the inclusion of vulnerable groups, mainly due to disability. It used methods and techniques of a theoretical, empirical and statistical-mathematical nature; among them the documentary review and analysis, the survey, the empirical frequency distribution. Four populations practicing the processes of the Cuban Physical Culture System are used; Physical Education, Sports, Community Physical Activity and Physical Recreation. The results are framed in the determination of features of the different processes that characterize Cuban physical culture as inclusive; as well as the potential of physical-educational, sports and recreational practice in achieving true inclusion in society. Briefly, it concludes with ideas that confirm the identification of these traits and potentials as insurers of the inclusion process of these vulnerable groups, from the aforementioned processes.