Extracurricular Life Research Articles

How college clubs affect freshmen’s development?

This study investigates the influence of college clubs on the personal development of freshmen at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Utilizing a survey methodology, the research examines freshmen's preferences for different types of clubs and the subsequent impacts on their academic performance, social skills, and career aspirations. Findings indicate that participation in college clubs enhances social competencies, provides a platform for leadership and teamwork skills development, and enriches students' extracurricular lives, potentially influencing their career perspectives. The study highlights the significant role college clubs play in fostering an environment that supports the holistic development of freshmen, encouraging active engagement and personal growth within the university setting.

Nauczyciel edukacji wczesnoszkolnej w opinii rodziców i nauczycieli

The period of early education is the time when a child goes through the process of development from childhood to the beginning of adolescence. This stage is the foundation on which to build education preparing the student to participate in social life. Thanks to the acquired knowledge and skills, he has the opportunity to achieve his goals in the future. The many tasks facing early school education include awakening intellectual interests as the basis for cognitive activity, as well as developing the ability to express one’s thoughts and understand others. Early childhood education teachers are assigned a special role in shaping the personality of pupils. They must ensure safety among students starting their education and develop the child’s motivation to continue learning. Their role is also to observe the student’s development, as well as to support the child’s extracurricular life environment so that he or she achieves the greatest possible educational achievements. Based on research, the article presents the teacher’s competences necessary in his or her work and attempts to show the most important personal characteristics necessary in performing this profession. In addition, factors conducive to the creation of social bonds between the teacher and students, as well as the activities of the educator which most strongly affect the education and upbringing of students, are indicated.

RESOURCES FOR ADAPTATION TO LEARNING STUDENTS – FUTURE BACHELORS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IN THE CURRENT EDUCATIONAL CONDITIONS

Abstract: the article explores the impact of martial law on the self-educational activities of students – future bachelors of mechanical engineering specialities in higher education institutions. The necessity of increasing the internal resources of students for their effective adaptation to the crisis and unpredictable changes in the educational environment and related stress factors is substantiated. The arguments for determining the psychological well-being of students by means of effective stress management and effective learning in stressful situations and uncertainty are validated. The article presents the results of a pedagogical experiment aimed at determining the relationship between the psychological well-being of future bachelors of mechanical engineering specialities and their self-educational activities in the current educational environment. The importance of independent cognitive activity of mechanical engineering students is emphasised, which focusses on the ability to withstand challenges both in the educational environment and in the extracurricular life of students, which positively affects the level of their psychological well-being.

What sociologists learn from music: identity, music-making, and the sociological imagination

ABSTRACT Sociologists very often have extra-curricular lives as musicians. This article explores the relationship between musical life and sociological identities. Through a range of examples from Howard Becker’s grounding in field research as a pianist in the Chicago jazz clubs and his theories of deviance, to the connection between Emma Jackson’s life as a bass player in Brit pop band Kenickie and her feminist punk sociology, an argument is developed about the things sociologists learn from music. Based on 28 life history interviews with contemporary sociologists this paper shows how sociologists learn – both directly and tacitly – to understand society through their engagement with music. Music offers them an interpretive device to read cultural history, a training in the unspoken and yet structured aspects of culture, and an attentiveness to improvised and interactive aspects of social interaction. For sociologists, involvement in music making is also an incitement to get off campus and encounter an alternative world of value and values. Music enables sociologists to sustain their research imaginations and inspires them to make sociology differently. However, the article concludes that in the contemporary neoliberal university it is harder for sociologists to sustain a creative hinterland in music. The tacit knowledges that often nourish sociological identities may run the risk of being depleted as a result.

Comparing undergraduates' life in China and Russia

With the end of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, the long-suspended student exchange program between Chinese and Russian Universities has also been restored. Through the exchange period, students can strengthen cultural and educational links between universities in the two countries. At the same time, students can experience the differences in culture and education methods. There are big differences in the teaching methods and student’s extracurricular life in higher education between Russia and China. Exchange students may suffer from cultural incompatibility, and even psychological and physical discomfort. This paper focuses on the life differences between Chinese and Russian college students and provides experience for students who decide to participate in Sino-Russian exchange programs in the future.

Проблемы школьного образования на Урале в 1909 – 1913 гг. в освещении либеральной печати

Based on a study of materials from the liberal Ural periodical press, the article examines various aspects of autocratic policy in the field of education in the Ural region during the years of industrial boom (1909–1913). The main focus is placed on the indirect restriction of access to education for children from low social standing due to the high cost of education; the chronic shortage of schools and the lack of necessary conditions for the educational process, especially in rural areas; the strictest regulation of school and extracurricular life of students; and forms of student protest against the tightening of the rules of education and violation of their rights. In the course of our study, we came to the conclusion that the protests performed by students were academic in nature and limited to the educational space – they did not address the socioeconomic and political problems of the local, regional, and national (Russian) levels. Despite the growing need for educated personnel and the efforts of the authorities in this direction, newspaper materials show that these measures were insufficient to increase literacy levels and were of a pronounced protective nature, aimed at educating young people in the spirit of loyalty to the existing regime

ANÁLISE E INTERVENÇÕES DOS ACIDENTES ESPORTIVOS COMUNS EM UNIVERSITÁRIOS JOGADORES DE BASQUETE

ABSTRACT Introduction As college basketball continues to develop, more and more college students are joining the sport, and the resulting sports injuries have also gradually increased, affecting the quality of life and academic performance. Objective Analyze the most common sports injuries and offer solutions for the safe practice of college basketball. Methods This article studies, through interviews and literature review, the basketball injuries of college students, analyze the main causes of sports injuries, and presents corresponding countermeasures to promote the safe development of sports education in colleges. Results The main injuries were during training, excessive force, and inadequate preparation. Deficient muscle work is also associated with most of these injuries. Conclusion Basketball is highly competitive and popular on college campuses. It is a sport that can exercise and enrich the extracurricular life of college students, requiring from its practitioners greater attention in the pre-training warm-up phase and parallel muscle strengthening to reduce its major injuries in college students. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment outcomes

An Unpublished “Family Heirloom”: Frederick William Beecher’s 1855 Williams College Journal

ABSTRACT This article contextualizes selected entries from Frederick William Beecher’s unpublished 1855 journal that records his time first on vacation in Boston during winter break and then back at Williams College during the winter term. The journal is significant for literary and cultural historians and biographers, as it gives an inside glimpse into the daily life of the Beecher family and the cultural and political ferment taking place in Boston in the mid-1850s. Second, unlike other mid-century accounts of college life that were made for publication, the journal offers an unvarnished day-by-day record of the intersection of curricular and extracurricular life that illustrates the surprising autonomy of student life in a prominent liberal arts college in the years just before the Civil War. And finally, as Beecher’s journal increasingly became an intimate forum for spiritual doubt, reflection, and conversion, it provides evidence of a hitherto-undocumented religious revival at Williams in the spring of 1855.

Structures of Chinese Students Interactions in Universities of the Far Eastern Federal District of The Russian Federation: Educational and Leisure Space

The article analyzes the everyday communication of Chinese students in the Far East of the Russian Federation. The empirical data are based on two studies conducted by the staff of the Institute of the East, Higher Education Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology and the Interdepartmental sociological laboratory of The Institute of Finances and Economics of North-Eastern Federal University in 2017 and 2019. The methodological approach of the research, based on the theory of social space, allows us to conventionally distinguish the educational field and types of neighborhood subfields. As a structure of such fields of everyday communication in a foreign ethnic environment, the following are identified: the duration of students’ stay depending on educational programs, the level of Russian language proficiency, place of residence, roommates in a dormitory, the level of material well-being of the students’ family. Of course, it is by no means denied that the main tone in the life of students is set by the cognitive environment of the learning process. The data obtained make it possible to conditionally distinguish three types of neighborhoodhousehold subfields in the everyday extra-curricular life of students: the first can be attributed to students living with their compatriots, some of whom, having quickly adapted to local conditions, may experience difficulties in mastering the Russian language, respectively, and in general in study. The second type may include respondents who have expressed a desire to live with representatives of the local student community for closer contact with them in order to better master the Russian language. Of course, they experience difficulties at the initial stage of adaptation, which can then be compensated for by the achievement of the set goal, good command of the Russian language, the establishment of friendly relations, not only with roommates, etc. The third type can be formed by those who initially have mastered the Russian language at a sufficient level, who can communicate and study in Russia without any problems. They can live both with their fellow countrymen and with Russian students. It is necessary to urgently transfer this painted part of the Annotation.

Neglected Part of Education Sustainability: Social Work Intervention on the Quality of Extracurricular Life of Migrant Workers’ Children

The extracurricular life and education of migrant children are significant to the formation of personality and values, but it has been ignored for a long time. The aim of this study is to obtain evidence supporting the theoretical argument that social work intervention in extracurricular education can have a positive impact on migrant children’s learning ability, social adaptability, personality, and interest shaping. From the perspective of practice, including participatory observation and case study method, this paper analyzes the situation of 71 migrant children in order to improve their extracurricular life quality by social work intervention. In the short term, project members have generally developed good study habits. In the long term, the academic performance is generally excellent, which is beneficial to the development of school teaching tasks. The project has an obvious beneficial impact on the academic learning ability and mental health of migrant workers’ children, especially the ability of social adaptation and the shaping of personality interests. The project helps to strengthen the sustainability of migrant children’s education.

...ALCOHOL ... MAKES A YOUNG SENSITIVE MAN A BRUTAL BEAST»: ALCOHOLISM IN STUDENT AND GYMNASIUM ENVIRONMENTS OF HALYCHYNA AND THE FIGHT AGAINST IT IN THE END OF THE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURY

The problem of spreading such deviations as drunkenness and alcoholism in the youth environment of Halychyna in the late XIX – early XX centuries is analyzed. In particular, studied the genesis and main causes of this phenomenon: financial difficulties of a large part of young people, changes in their lifestyle and living environment (relocation to the city), difficult economic situation, alcohol consumption as an attempt to «escape» from reality, limited ways of spending leisure time, lack of extracurricular life and total control over it by the school administration, public disregard for alcoholism and drunkenness, alcohol consumption for fun, family feast traditions, a negative example of seniors, especially teachers, cheapness of alcohol, availability of the one to students and gymnasists, even a kind of «fashion» for alcohol in youth circles. Emphasis is placed on the increasing scale of alcoholism in Halychyna society, the gradual awareness of young people of the complexity of the problem, and the search for ways out of it. The two main directions of fighting alcoholism in student and gymnasium environments are analyzed: the one implemented by the educational administration of the region and heads of educational institutions and the second initiated by the youth itself. Insignificant effectiveness of measures taken by school authorities to solve the problem was noted. They were either informative or authoritarian and were limited to strengthening control over the behavior of secondary school students. The main form of eradication of alcoholism among young people at the beginning of World War I was disciplinary proceedings with subsequent punishment of violators of the behavioral rules in and out of school. Detected the efforts of the educational institutions authorities not to advertise manifestations of alcoholism among students and solve the problem within the school. Studied the main methods of fighting alcoholism used by young people: educational activities (lectures, reports, exhibitions), expanding the information field on the problem, creating a network of anti-alcohol clubs in schools, spreading the idea of sobriety and abstinence movement, promoting healthy lifestyles and sports. The role of public initiative, in particular the Scout movement, «Plast», «Renaissance», «Eleusis», «Ukraine», «Sokil», etc. in the fight against alcoholism is analyzed.

ВОСПИТАТЕЛЬНАЯ, ТВОРЧЕСКАЯ, ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬСКАЯ, ТРУДОВАЯ И БЛАГОТВОРИТЕЛЬНО-ПАТРИОТИЧЕСКАЯ ВНЕУЧЕБНАЯ РАБОТА С УЧАЩИМИСЯ В ЕНИСЕЙСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ ПЕРВОЙ ЧЕТВЕРТИ XX ВЕКА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ЖУРНАЛА «СИБИРСКАЯ ШКОЛА»)

The article examines the experience of extracurricular work at the beginning of the 20th century on the material of the Yenisei province. The main directions of extracurricular work are determined; the forms of its implementation that were relevant at that time are described. The role of museums and theaters in the extracurricular life of students is shown. The experience of organizing labour artels, their effectiveness, as well as the charitable activities of students of the Yenisei province are described.

Intra-Corporate Media Resources as an Element of the Modern Educational Process

The article studies the role and place of intra-corporate media resources of higher education institutions in the modern educational process. It has been proved that they are a particular type of corporate media. Their features, problems and opportunities in ensuring the educational process of higher education institutions have been identified. Furthermore, the main trends in the development of university media have been considered. In the course of the scientific research, it has been concluded that the intra-corporate media resources of educational institutions perform mainly the same tasks as other corporate mass media: they form a corporate culture, introduce specific values, create an atmosphere of cohesion by combining different elements of the educational process (from the administrative component to student extracurricular life); they disseminate relevantly and demanded information, mobilise students to adjust to conscientious study, and the staff of the institution - to work, establish vertical and horizontal communications between educational institutions and a specific target audience based on the implementation of constructive dialogic relations, etc.

Experience in adapting the “Undergraduate Stress Questionnaire”

This article describes the process of adapting the “Undergraduate Stress Questionnaire (USQ)” ques- tionnaire for a Russian-speaking sample of Kazakhstani students. The questionnaire is aimed at studying various parameters of academic stress and describes stressful events associated with both the education- al process and the extracurricular life of students. The aim of the study is translation, cultural adaptation and verification of psychometric properties of the adapted version of the questionnaire. The results of the study revealed that the Russian-language version of the questionnaire has good psychometric data. The internal consistency coefficient of α-Cronbach is 0.929. A statistically significant correlation was found between the adapted questionnaire and the diagnostic tools used to test the convergent validity (the correlation coefficients range from 0.438 to 0.836). Satisfactory indicators of retest reliability of the questionnaire were obtained (r = 0.889). These data are consistent with the results obtained by the authors of the original questionnaire. The Russian-language version of the Undergraduate Stress Ques- tionnaire, called the Student Stress Questionnaire, can be used to study the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of academic stress in the context of Kazakhstan. Key words: questionnaire, adaptation, academic stress, diagnostics.

Jak uczyć (się) języka ojczystego, czyli szkolne interakcje z językiem (czeskim)

The author describes an innovative project of teaching/ learning the native language (Czech), emphasizing modern features of the concept, such as: the use of constructivist indications; text-centricity; student activation; respect for their communication needs; application of the criterion of usefulness of acquired skills in the extracurricular life of students; basing the educational process on students’ preconcepts, introducing language learning into a function- al and communicative framework. The author also points to the observance of the language teaching principles that determine the concept, such as: complexity; the relationship between the student’s cognitive and linguistic development, including basing of teaching on a three- -phase model of learning and teaching which uses a constructivist framework of learning (evocation – awareness of meaning – reflection (evokace – uvědomění si významu – reflexe: E-U-R). The further principles are: orientation on learner and the principle of topicality of linguistic knowledge. All of them condition the appropriate innovative concept of language acquisition as a fresh and effective proposal – ready for implementation.

Исследование особенностей межличностного общения китайских студентов на Дальнем Востоке России

A large number of Asian students are currently studying in the Russian Far East. The vast majority of them are Chinese students. Sociological studies of various aspects of their stay in the Far East are still quite rare. The study of the characteristics and typification of their intercultural interpersonal communication with Russian students can contribute to understanding the most optimal ways of their adaptation in a foreign cultural environment. The present study provides the results of a research conducted by the authors among foreign students at the beginning of 2020 in five Far Eastern universities. The study revealed a number of significant shortcomings in the organization of educational and extracurricular life of Chinese students, which hinder their full immersion in the Russian language environment. The language barrier is the main obstacle in the process of interpersonal intercultural communication between Russian and Chinese students. The study provides recommendations on the proper organization of educational, extracurricular activities, as well as living in a dormitory for Chinese students, which can help improve intercultural interpersonal communication between Chinese and Russian students.

Extracurricular sports participation increases life satisfaction among Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model

We investigated whether participation in extracurricular sports promotes the life satisfaction of Chinese adolescents and tested the mediating effect of academic stress and the moderating effect of extraversion in this relationship. We conducted a survey with 1,608 Chinese adolescents to assess their participation in extracurricular sports and their levels of extraversion, academic stress, and life satisfaction. The regression analysis results indicate that extracurricular sports participation positively influenced life satisfaction through the mediator of academic stress. The moderated regression analysis results reveal that high extraversion strengthened not only the direct effects of extracurricular sports participation and academic stress but also the indirect effects of extracurricular sports participation and life satisfaction. These findings indicate that participation in extracurricular sports chiefly promoted life satisfaction in Chinese adolescents indirectly by reducing their academic stress, subject to the moderating effect of having an extraverted personality. Thus, increasing the time students spend on participating in extracurricular sports can help to enhance their life satisfaction.

Using Appreciative Inquiry to explore the effect of COVID-19 on student trust: medical students' perspective.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Background Students' anxiety due to the COVID-19 pandemic was expressed by some medical students in the form of anger and mistrust. This study aims to explore the reasons for mistrust between students and faculty among medical schools in Egypt that have flared during the pandemic. Methodology This is a three-phase exploratory qualitative study depending on thematic emergence from appreciative interviews (AI) sessions. Phase 1 online Appreciative Inquiry (AI) session followed by thematic content analysis. Phase 2 The themes were approached by a smaller cohort of students using a design that relied mostly on the psychometric free association test. Phase 3 The themes were tested on a larger number of students through an online survey. Results Students are revealed to be very well educated regarding contemporary medical education concepts. The most important factors from the student perspective were the presence of a well-designed assessment system aligned with the learning outcomes and teaching methodologies and the presence of extracurricular activities and soft skills, respectively. A balanced student life respecting their mental health was found important to increase trust. Conclusion A roadmap to enhance the student trust must be planned on several pivots: curriculum structure, extracurricular life, communication strategies, and identifying student roles in their learning and decision-making.

RAILWAY VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS OF SUMY REGION DURING THE PERIOD OF ECONOMY RECOVERY (1943-1950)

The article is devoted to the study of the railway vocational schools activities in the context of the restoration processes of 1943-1950. Railway vocational schools belonged to the Labour Reserves (LR) of the USSR. During World War II and the post-war reconstruction LR system was a centralized structure performed the task of ensuring the strategic sectors of Soviet economy by young workers. It was semimilitary and also largely provided the function of social protection of juvenile. Konotop ZU № 1 and Bilopillya ZU № 2 are in the center of researchers’ attention. In particular, the features of the educational process, the recruting of the students contingent, and the material and household provision of the learners during their training are analysed in the article. Components of the education in railway vocational schools were: industrial training, especially technical and general education subjects, political classes and physical or military training. The main emphasis was placed on gaining practical experience by students through industrial training, to which the largest share of the time was assigned. Organizing of extracurricular life of young people was based on the paramilitary training principles. State standards of the free food supply and material conditions in LR were perceived as satisfactory under the postwar hunger and deficiency of goods. Most students lived in hostels while studying. The barracks regime reigned in hostels. Students lived on a very strict and clear daily time-table. The research is based on materials from the State Archive of Sumy Region. Key words: post-war recovery, vocational education, Labour Reserves, railway vocational schools, Sumy region.

Внешкольная повседневность советских школьников: сюжеты и структуры

Внешкольная повседневность советских школьников: сюжеты и структуры