Capacity of Program Second Half (Programa Segundo Tempo - PST): Cultural Matrix of Educational Sport

In Brazil sports intercalate with society through the different sectors, however in the last 14 years the development of the Ministry of Sports influenced the country with actions of decentralized sports. These actions, shared among educational sport, leisure and performance, are policies meant to help the population from three different sports. The educational sport has a program named Program Second Half (PST) that discloses and produces a collection of information to organize the types of use of sport for the involved professionals. This information is named the cultural matrix of educational sport, because it systematizes a professional formation so the Nucleus Coordinators who perform with the population can be capable of applying this sport format. The objective of the research is understanding how the educational sport matrix produces information about leisure and how the Nucleus Coordinators apply leisure with the participants. As methodology we performed a documented research about PST and analyzed the data. We noticed that PST is formed by a very distinct group of people and that is not convinced of the inclusion of leisure in its principles and guidelines. Even without this clarification the PST uses a strategy to act through leisure which is the special program Recess of Vacation. The form that leisure affects the Nucleus Coordinators in the capacity of PST is in the contents transmitted via the EaD Capacity and on the books and Recess on Vacation. The leisure theme is discussed in the EaD Capacity and in the book in a specific chapter which discusses the theme proposing ways of implementing it on the groups. This abstract reports on research funded by FAPEMIG (Fundação de apoio a pesquisa em Minas Gerais - Research Support Foundation of MG, Brasil).