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Sefton, Terry – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2022
Labour strife in the education sector in Ontario has repeatedly highlighted the precariousness of certain types of teaching and learning that are delivered under the catch-all designation extracurricular. This paper reviews education legislation in Ontario over the past 40 years that has impacted teachers' right to strike; examines how teacher…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Foreign Countries, Labor Demands, Educational Legislation
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Moosong Kim; Jaehun Jung; Joonkoo Yun – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
This study aimed to examine the prevalence and types of school-based extracurricular sports and physical activity participation among children with disabilities. This study utilised the 2013-2016 National Health and Examination Surveys (N = 4416). A total of 509 children who received special education services were identified as children with…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Children, Disabilities, Physical Activity Level
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Esohe R. Osai; Shanyce L. Campbell; James W. Greer – Children & Schools, 2024
Out-of-school time (OST) has great significance as a youth development space that can support students' exploration of social justice. Such opportunities for exploration are especially important in times of social distress and upheaval, such as those experienced during the school shutdowns and racial unrest associated with the global pandemic.…
Descriptors: Youth, Leisure Time, Extracurricular Activities, Social Justice
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Alba Iara Cae Rodrigues; Risto Marttinen; Dominique Banville – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Martial arts and combat sports (MA&CS) are lifelong nontraditional activities seldom available for youth in school settings. Research has found that MA&CS can promote a variety of benefits to youth with novel experiences that promote nonviolent, psychological, affective, cognitive, and physical outcomes. Objective: The objective of this…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Physical Education, Nontraditional Education, Athletics
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Mohammed Awal Iddrisu; Abdelhak Senadjki; Samuel Ogbeibu; Mourad Senadjki – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2024
The integration of behavior change theory to investigate factors of behavioral influence in understanding the behavioral intention of students' extra-curricular participation has been limited, contributing to the existing gap that highlights the preliminary empirical observation on how the factors influence students' extra-curricular activity…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Extracurricular Activities, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Caralee Adams – Education Next, 2024
Involving students in policy debate is one of the most impactful academic interventions for secondary school students, according to a study, which between 2007 and 2017 followed about 3,500 students who were part of the Boston Debate League (BDL). The nonprofit supports debate teams in Boston Public Schools, which have a large concentration of…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Debate, Public Policy, Clubs
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Jinsong Tan; Anh Tuan Hoang – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
The training of physical education and training students is an important part of the education of physical education students in my country. The talents trained are an important supporting force to improve the quality of physical education and sports training and to promote the scientific and effective development of national fitness. The quality…
Descriptors: College Students, Physical Education, Training, Foreign Countries
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Barrett J. Taylor; Kelly Rosinger; Karly S. Ford – Sociology of Education, 2024
Admission to selective colleges has grown more competitive, yielding student bodies that are unrepresentative of the U.S. population. Admission officers report using sorting (e.g., GPA, standardized tests) and concertedly cultivated (e.g., extracurricular activities) and ascriptive status (e.g., whether an applicant identifies as a member of a…
Descriptors: College Admission, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Competitive Selection
Brianna K. Portmann – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The transition to college can be challenging for first-year students, impacting their academic performance and overall well-being. One strategy employed to ease the college transition is the first-year seminar, designed to introduce students to academic expectations, build social connections, develop self-management skills, and support students'…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Student Participation, Self Efficacy
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Arnau Palou; Piia Af Ursin; Jannick Demanet – European Journal of Education, 2024
Engaging in extracurricular activities is known to affect both cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes, but there is social inequality in access to these activities. In this study, we examine the role of extracurricular activities in moderating the relationships between secondary school students' social background and their cognitive and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Structures, Interpersonal Competence, Social Differences
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Melina Furman; Natali Savransky; Ariel Merpert; Mariana Sajón; Bárbara Funtowicz; Tobías Yatche – Learning Environments Research, 2024
This article reports youths´ interests and concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing what Argentine students aged 12 to 18 years expressed within the 2020 edition of TED-Ed Clubs, an extracurricular school program aimed at developing and communicating an idea following a TED-talk format. Based on video recordings of a random sample of 100…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Attitudes
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Saul, Mark – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2021
Russian culture developed under the burden of a series of totalitarian governments, a circumstance that, oddly, supported mathematics education. The Soviet period in particular saw a flowering of mathematical culture, the seeds of which have, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, been carried to the rest of Europe and America. A trickle of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Development, Educational History, Extracurricular Activities
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Daniel Matheus da Silva; Lorena Oliveira de Sousa; Ana Claudia Kasseboehmer – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
This work reports the development and application of an analytical tool for the analysis of the formation of the scientific mind of students who took part in inquiry activities, based on the philosophy of Gaston Bachelard, in a Chemistry Club. For the construction of the analytical instrument, an extracurricular course was offered to first-year…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Science Process Skills, Scientific Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Siw Graabraek Nielsen; Anne Jordhus-Lier; Sidsel Karlsen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This article explores musical parenting in Norwegian schools of music and arts. These schools aim to provide extra-curricular activities in music and other art forms to "all" children and adolescents regardless of their social and economic background, but the schools reveal traits of social and cultural exclusion, serving mainly the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Child Rearing, Parent Role
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Julie J. Park; Brian Heseung Kim; Nancy Wong; Jia Zheng; Stephanie Breen; Pearl Lo; Dominique J. Baker; Kelly Rosinger; Mike Hoa Nguyen; OiYan A. Poon – American Educational Research Journal, 2025
For years, discussions on inequality in college admissions have addressed standardized tests, but less is known about inequality in nonstandardized components of applications. We analyzed extracurricular activity descriptions in 6,054,104 applications submitted through the Common Application using natural language processing methods. Overall,…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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