DAC+program

Omar Cerrillo Garnica, Professor, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) [ocerrillo@itesm.mx]
 * DAC program: How sports and arts contribute to regenerate social tissue **  **and donate social capital **




 * Keywords: ** Social service, human development, social capital, sports and arts


 * Track: ** Community partnerships and reciprocity


 * Format: ** Poster presentation
 * Date & time: **Thursday 3:20-4:30
 * Location: **Salon 4 / Salon 9

This work is about a social service college program that consists in sending college students with skills in arts or sports to give a class in their specialty in social-marginalized communities, particularly in schools, culture houses and sports facilities, teaching children and teens.
 * Summary: **

We assumed that arts and sports can contribute to human development taking as a basis the works of Howard Gardner (1973, 2005) and Elliot Eisner (1972, 2004) for arts; and Coca (1993), Vasquez (1991), and Cagigal (1990) in sports. This ideas are reinforced by some social labor activities; for example, the groups “Build a Bridge” in Kenia and “Arts in Action” in Trinidad & Tobago, both contributing to restate social tissue with artistic activities. The Defensores del Chaco Foundation in Argentina creates a Soccer Street League, in order to promote values as gender equity, leadership and peaceful solutions. Both activities, arts and sports, are also promoted in the Brazilian foundation Gol de Letra, who donates sports and arts classes in marginalized communities.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">After two years of works in the DAC program, we decided to measure with surveys and interviews the results of the program, particularly in how it helps to restate social tissue and build new ways of social capital. Our college students were able to identify that this kind of communities are in lack of social and cultural venues, and that they can help to express themselves in better ways by receiving some instruction in these subjects. People of these communities noticed new possibilities of development and social integration by spending time in practicing sports and/or arts. This arts and sports program community teaching program contributes to reestablish social links between groups that were away from the other, allowing them to make links by a common like of sports or arts.

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