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

Buoye, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3639162021 ISBN 13: 9783639162028

Publisher: 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.

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About the Author

Alexander Buoye received his doctorate in sociology, with specializations in the sociology of education and social psychology, from the University of Notre Dame.

Edition details

• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639162021
• ISBN 13: 9783639162028
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108