Effects of leisure activities in cultural centers on children and teenagers: case of bamboo numérik in cotonou

The practice of culturalleisure activities is of enormous interest and benefit to children. Indeed, to better understand this phenomenon, this research was part of the perspective of analyzing the beneficial contribution of the practice of leisure cultural activities on children attending the Bamboo Numérik cultural center. To do this, qualitative research was carried out with twenty-one subjects including seventeen parents and four supervisors. Thus, this research was based on the theoretical model "child development and its learning mechanisms" and the theory of "the triarchic conception of intelligence: different ways of thinking" to properly analyze the results. Furthermore, after the analysis and analysis of the response elements, different results revealed that the practice of leisure cultural activities improves personal development and facilitates the social integration of children. It would be ideal through future research to investigate the relationship between the skills acquired in cultural leisure activities and the academic performance of children attending cultural centers in Benin.