Theoretical and methodological provisions of pedagogy leisure as an industry of humanitarian knowledge

The article presents an analytical review of the modern level of development of leisure pedagogy. The importance of the specialization of its functions, which is determined by the compatibility of pedagogical factors governing the professional and pedagogical activities of a specialist in the social and cultural sphere, an additional education teacher, is substantiated; leisure activities of a social subject: the viewer, listener, reader, alumni of the amateur group; general cultural development of participants in the pedagogical process of cultural institutions and additional education. The author identifies the structural components of the pedagogy of leisure: the initial heuristic basis and the initial theoretical basis aimed at expanding the pedagogical context of the meaning of leisure as a basis for its evaluation in opposition terms: "creative - reproductive”; "Effective -passive”, "meaningful - limited”. The system of laws and principles of the constructive development of the pedagogy of leisure, as well as its specific tasks, is specified.