POSSIBLE DIALOGUES BETWEEN THE ADVENTURE EXPERIENCE AND THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

Adventure practices gained space in everyday life and in communities, through leisure, the most common being carried out in green areas, outside large urban centers, prevailing the contact of human beings with the environment, generating positive experiences and physical enhancement. This work, in the format of a theoretical essay, had as its central objective, in an attempt to approach the experience of leisure in nature as a determining factor of the senses of place, and, finally, the benefits of adventure sports in the educational space, from of qualitative research with this theme. It was noticed that urbanization is a potential threat to mental health, well-being, physical and social; there are mechanisms to improve the health of people, children, young people, adults, and this is through physical activities carried out outdoors, in contact with nature. With regard to adventure practices, it was found that practitioners, in contact with nature, respond to the benefit of health linked to various bodily practices, especially those that challenge participants to experience risky conduct. In relation to experiences in green areas, they are products of senses in which actions benefit mental, social and well-being balance.