Capitalizing on the Extra Curriculum: Participation, Peer Influence, and Academic Achievement - Couverture souple

Buoye, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3639162021 ISBN 13 : 9783639162028

Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Educational policy makers and social researchers often view the extra curriculum as superfluous or even contradictory to the academic mission of schools. However, schools are not merely clinical factories of learning. The physical plant of each school houses a living, breathing social system with all of the requisite parts and functions. The informal interaction of students with each other, as reciprocal agents of socialization, has consequences as tangible as teachers' purposive, didactic interaction with students. Participation in extracurricular activities plays an important role in the emergence and functioning of these social systems ? a role that has important ramifications for academic achievement. The findings of this study should be of interest to students, teachers, coaches, parents and policy makers, as well as sociologists of education.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VDM Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3639162021
• ISBN 13: 9783639162028
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible