Abstract
Curetting the problematic “The exercise of extracurricular cultural and sports activities can influence the academic performance of the student?”, this research demands to study the relationship between the practice of cultural and sports activities (extracurricular activities) and the student development, considering hypothetically that it is characterized for improvement of different factors of development, on the motor aspect, affective, social and cognitive, furthermore the student’s capacity of correlate abilities and competencies, guiding on a value in qualitative way of the scholar experience, opposing of the grades quantitative system traditional. Is considered like extracurricular cultural and sports activities any exercise absences scholar routine enables the student to work the knowledge and development of own body, of personality, of affective, of socialization, of cognitive, in addition the acquisition and increase of knowledge and cultural repertory, may be music classes, drama classes, artistic expressions, lecture practices, sports practices, and other types.
Keywords:
cultural activities; extracurricular practices; academic success