Publications of Members of the WERA-IRN EXTENDED EDUCATION

International Developments in Research on Extended Education

The purpose of this edited volume is to provide an overview of what extended education looks like across multiple nations around the world. Different models, policies, methods, and research findings will be discussed from an international perspective. Extended education is done differently around the world and the purpose of the volume is to understand and appreciate these differences with as much of an open mind as possible. By attempting to understand, compare, and (where appropriate) integrate these different practices as they occur in their social, cultural, and historical context, the editors hope to offer the reader a broader point of view on extended education and a critical perspective on their own society’s practices and policies.

Content

- Extended Education as an Emerging Research Field
- Theoretical Perspectives
- Methods in Research on Extended Education
- Case Studies
- Extended Education: Terminology, Typology, Transformation

This edited volume has been published by Prof. Dr. Sang Hoon Bae, Prof. Dr. Joseph L. Mahoney, Prof. Dr. Sabine Maschke, and Prof. Dr. Ludwig Stecher (Eds.). Read more about it here.

Conference Volume: Extended Education from an International Comparative Point of View

The WERA-IRN conference Extended Education from an International Comparative Point of View held at University of Bamberg, Germany, in 2017 aimed at bringing together different research perspectives, synthesizing the state of research worldwide in this new field of extended education – afterschool and out-of-school time learning –, and initiating an international research direction from a comparative point of view. From the conference proceedings, thirteen high-quality papers have been selected representing the international state of research on extended education.

Content:

- Development and Implementations of Extended Education in Different Countries
- Compensatory Effects of Extended Education
- Multiprofessional Collaboration of Staff
- Peer Relations Within the Field of Extended Education
- Focus on the Situation in Germany

The volume is edited by Prof. Dr. Marianne Schuepbach and Dr. Nanine Lilla (Eds.) and published by Springer in summer 2019. It is now available online!

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Publication of Volume 7 Nr. 1 (2019) of the IJREE

The 2019(1) issue of the International Journal of Research on Extended Education (IJREE) was published. In this issue, there are six articles in the general contribution section and two short reports in the development in extended education section.

General Contributions:

The Effect of Utilization of Extended Education Offerings and of Their Quality on Reading Achievement at Open-Attendance All-Day Schools (Benjamin von Allmen, Marianne Schüpbach, Lukas Frei, Wim Nieuwenboom)
Leisure-Time Activities Including Children with Special Needs: A Research Overview (Birgitta Lundbäck, Linda Fälth)
Results of an Exploratory Analysis of PISA 2015 Survey of Student Participation in Outside-School-Time Programs (Larry E. Suter)
All-Day Schools and Social Work: A Swiss Case Study (Emanuela Chiapparini, Andrea Scholian, Patricia Schuler, Christa Kappler)
The After-School Program Collaboration Quality Index (CQI): Results of a Validation Study (Michelle Jutzi, Rebecca H. Woodland)
Global Pattern of Extended Education and Its Impact on Educational Outcomes: The Case of Science Education (Sang Hoon Bae, Hyowon Park, Eun Ju Kwak, Eunwon Cho, Hyeonseok Jung)

Developments in the Field of Extended Education

Navigating Partnership Model for Expanded Learning Opportunities: A Case of the State of Oklahoma (Chang Sung Jang)
School Age Care Services in Australia (Jennifer Cartmel)

Special Issues of the International Journal of Research on Extended Education

In 2018, two special issues of the IJREE were published by Prof. Dr. Marianne Schüpbach as a guest editor. Both concern the 2017 WERA-IRN Extended Education Conference Extended Education from an International Comparative Point of View, that took place in at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

The first Special Section (2018/1) entitled Extended Education from an International Comparative Point of View includes the following articles:

Introduction: Extended Education from an International Comparative Point of View (Marianne Schuepbach)
Comparison of Extended Education and Research in this Field in Taiwan and in Switzerland (Marianne Schuepbach & Denise Huang)
A Comparison of the Afterschool Programs of Korea and Japan: From the Institutional and Ecological Perspectives (Sang Hoon Bae & Fuyuko Kanefuji)
Swedish School-age Educare Centres and German All-day Schools – A Bi-national Comparison of Two Prototypes of Extended Education (Anna Klerfelt & Ludwig Stecher)

The second Special Section (2018/2) A Discussion About Concepts and Terms in the Field of Extended Education contains the following articles:

Introduction: A Discussion about Concepts and Terms in the Field of Extended Education (Marianne Schuepbach)
Eliciting Concepts in the Field of Extended Education – A Swedish Provoke (Anna Klerfelt & Anna-Lena Ljusberg)
Useful terms in English for the field of extended education and a characterization of the field from a Swiss perspective (Marianne Schuepbach)
Extended Education – Some Considerations on a Growing Research Field (Ludwig Stecher)
Concepts, Models, and Research of Extended Education (Sang Hoon Bae)
Expanded learning: A thought piece about terminology, typology, and transformation (Gil G. Noam & Bailey B. Triggs)

Extracurricular Education of Children in Russia: Unified and Diverse (in Russian only)

Over the past decades, the authors have studied the system development of extracurricular activities in Russia. Their results are presented in this volume and includeall key aspects of extracurricular education: its structure, infrastructure, program content, funding approaches and human resources, development vectors and barriers, plus family expectations and strategies, including both territorial and socio-economic context. There is a special focus on the availability of services and the equality of educational opportunities.The volume is available in Russian only, but an English summary is currently prepared.The study was conducted under the leadership of Sergey Kosaretsky and Isak Frumin, and published by the Institute of Education of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia.

Contact: Sergey Kosaretsky

Extended Education – an International Perspective.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Extracurricular and Out-of-School Time Educational Research
The institutions and processes concerning out-of-school education are of ever growing importance. The scale of both public and private offers are steadily increasing, therefore individuals and families find more and more ways to satisfy their educational and training needs. This timely volume assesses the current impact and future of out-of-school education with case studies from eight different countries.

Ecarius, J., Klieme, E., Stecher, L., & Woods, J. (Eds.) (2013). Extended education: An International Perspective, Proceedings of the International Conference on Extracurricular and Out-of-School Time Education Research, Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers.