THE INVOLVEMENT OF UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
THE INVOLVEMENT OF UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to highlight the cultural and artistic hobbies that young people are practicing in an organized way like extracurricular activities, starting from the results of a sociological study conducted on a sample of upper secondary school students (N=815) in Iasi Municipality, in the first half of 2015. Alongside „consumersŗ, among teenagers there is a small core of „producersŗ or „distributorsŗ of cultural „goodsŗ. Otherwise, the young people choose to develop these hobbies through an active and direct involvement in cultural and artistic activities, even inside the school (theater, music, dance, editorial boards, literary circles and so) or by way of specialized clubs, workshops, organizations or associations. The approach proposed in the part dedicated to data analysis has a descriptive role (a preliminary knowledge of young people who are showing an interest inr cultural and artistic activities) and provides an opportunity to develop future topics of research, which aims to identify the teenagersř motivations, perceptions, attitudes and expectations concerning involvement in such extracurricular activities.

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