Stručni rad
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AS A FACTOR OF EDUCATION FOR A LEISURE TIME
Jasenka Martinčević
orcid.org/0000-0002-9075-7423
; III. osnovna škola, Varaždin, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Extracurricular activities in elementary school are very important part of educational work. It is a segment of acting of the elementary school where it is easier to reach out to students, in which to a large extent they can come to the fore all the teacher's competences. Extracurricular activities are a part of school practice with no
numerical rating; it is the area of free and independent choice. Their wealth of content and suitability to the needs and desires of specific school facilities provides an opportunity for individual development of each child. Generally speaking, obligatory part of the curriculum is strictly structured and defined, and extracurricular activities
are freer and more flexible framework of school activities. So, this is an area of free choice of students. Students actually devote one part of their free time to activities that are organized by the school. This is the key fact which needs our full attention. Leisure is an area of freedom, a time outside the professional, family and social
obligations of individuals, in which the person himself chooses whether to use their free time to develop its potential. Will it make it really just depends on whether the educational influence in the critical period of her growing up was focused on that person. Exactly that is the great importance of the school, because the school has the
ability, opportunity and the task of systematic educational influence in all segments, including segment of education for leisure. The contents of extracurricular activities should be adapted so that through their implementation this goal can be easily
reached. The aim of this study was to determine how students of sixth and seventh grade spend their leisure time considering if they are girls or boys, according to their scholastic achievement, involvement in extra-curricular and extracurricular activities
with regard to whether they are the only child in the family. In this sense, the research hypotheses are set. The study was conducted in March 2010. Pupils were provided with seventeen leisure time activities, next to which they marked how often they do
each of those. In addition, students evaluated the quality of certain extracurricular activities. 123 students took p rt in this research. The results indicate that the offering of extracurricular activities in elementary school should change, to become equally interesting to the most of the students. Significant differences in the estimates of
certain extracurricular activities were determined, as of the ways of spending leisure time with respect to some characteristics of respondents. The results could serve as a basis for deliberation about possible changes in extra-curricular activities in elementary school.
Ključne riječi
extracurricular activities; school; leisure time; educational influence
Hrčak ID:
63267
URI
Datum izdavanja:
6.12.2010.
Posjeta: 13.051 *