Pedagogy of leisure as a direction in modern socio-cultural education and upbringing

We make attempt to understand the scientific status of leisure pedagogy and its relationship with other scientific and pedagogical directions, primarily with the theory, methods and organization of socio-cultural activities. It is shown that the source for identifying the specifics of leisure pedagogy are leisure studies conducted by domestic and foreign scientists from the positions of sociology and cultural studies of leisure. Based on the analysis of recent scientific publications (N.I. Bocharova, A.F. Volovik, V.P. Krestyanov, G.A. Oparin, O.G. Tikhonova, N.V. Sharkovskaya et al.) we give the author’s definition of leisure pedagogy as an integral and systemically organized scientific-pedagogical and practice-oriented direction in modern socio-cultural education and upbringing, revealing the regularities of the pedagogical process in the field of leisure. The special mission of leisure pedagogy is to provide conditions for the formation of an individual’s ability to self-development in the field of leisure, to increase their own leisure competence.