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This article aims at studying the impact and role of extracurricular activities on the young and healthy formation and development of young people. The survey outlined the organizational arrangements, the steps teachers should take to ensure that extracurricular activities are successful and can achieve their original goal /goal, with the emphasis on learning. Reducing school dropout, reducing youth delinquency, reducing professional indecision, learning a job are some of the roles played by extracurricular activities; thus, education systems should encourage and support the realization of as many of these activities as possible. Also, various extracurricular activities from several countries / countries were presented in the study.
Keywords: extracurricular activities, young people, development, skills
JEL classification: I21, I23,I25
1.Introduction
Extracurricular activities are defined as those activities that students attend after completing the usual daily courses according to Cadwallader, Garza and Wagner (2002). These activities may include school clubs, athletics team, school choir, school orchestra, leadership organizations for students, etc. It is very important to distinguish between extracurricular activities and co-curricular activities; according to Frame (2007), co-curricular activities are those activities that belong to normal class hours. Most students who belong to a school club spend countless hours off course lessons, which is why they are classified as extracurricular activities.
Extracurricular activities usually refer to those activities that complement the normal teaching-learning hours. The delimitation of such activities is difficult because these activities can be represented by excursions, visits to zoos, museums, theaters, public institutions, ballet, opera, visits to other schools, artistic activities, participation in environmental clean-up, participation in seminars / debates for professional orientation, thematic clubs, setting up a newspaper / radio station of the learning institution, etc.
2.Organization of extracurricular activities
Like any work done for a well-defined purpose, extracurricular activity has a certain structure and form of organization that is ensured through the design, implementation and evaluation process. The success of these activities, which are not included in the normal curriculum, lies in the management of these three processes and the link between them. Since extracurricular activity has different characteristics depending on the extracurricular activity category concerned, the three processes undergo small changes depending on the specificity of the activity; instead, there are some general milestones for each process, which can be used...