Extracurricular activities for rural children: accessibility, content, forms

Abstract

Additional education of children is currently one of the priority areas for the development of educational organizations. The availability of additional education for children and youth is one of the important factors in ensuring the social integrity and stability of the development of each region and the country as a whole. Accessibility of additional education is characterized, first of all, by the scale of participation of children and youth in additional education programs. This article examines the features of rural children's participation in additional education: coverage in general, at school and outside of school by various forms of educational programs. The article provides an analysis of various parameters of the involvement of children living in rural areas in additional education. According to the data of the study, the involvement of children in rural areas in classes on additional general education programs implemented in anetwork form is less than in urban areas. The geography of the study is quite extensive: more than forty-five thousand students from fifty-one subjects of the Russian Federation took part in the survey. The article also analyzes the results of a survey of schoolchildren’s parents on the subject of satisfaction with the educational services received when mastering additional general development programs of all directions in educational organizations. The article describes the assessment of the participation of rural schoolchildren in additional education in the context of various directions, forms of participation, age and gender of children. Changes in the possibilities of obtaining additional education for children in rural areas within the framework of federal projects are discussed. The features of infrastructural and personnel support of additional educational programs implemented in rural areas are considered.