RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE PRACTICES AS A SUBJECT OF PEDAGOGICAL CULTUROLOGY

The article reveals the essence of recreational and leisure practices as a subject of pedagogical culturology. It was found that recreational and leisure practices are means of forming a creative personality of the digital age, which determines the need for lifelong learning, development of soft skills, and models of 4K competence. Emphasis is placed on the fact that today recreational and leisure practices become factors of the pedagogical process, as they are integral components of innovation processes in various spheres of modern society and, in particular, in education, because they relieve psycho-emotional stress, increase the resilience of adaptive mechanisms to emotional stress and as a result improve the cognitive activity of pupils, and students.It is noted that the understanding of pedagogical culturology as a structural element of applied culturology – the science of culture in its unity and multifacetedness, begins in the late XX – early XXI century. Recreational and leisure practices being an integral part of applied culturology and pedagogy, thus become the subject of study of pedagogical culturology, various aspects of which were studied by V. Kirsanov, M. Ariarskyi, Y. Streltsov, V. Titov. O. Kravchenko, I. Pecheranskyi, and V. Savelyev. It is proved that recreational and leisure practices, as a subject of pedagogical culturology, can contribute to the improvement of the process of aesthetic education of children, adolescents and youth, improving the quality of education, ensuring cultural orientation in socio-cultural and artistic institutions. Keywords: pedagogical culturology, recreational and leisure practices, recreation, leisure, continuing education, soft skills, 4K competences, creativity.