Additional Education and Active Involvement in Artistic Culture in Structure of Leisure Time among Modern Russian Teenagers

The article examines the features of preferences in spending leisure time among Russian teenagers at the stage of training in secondary and high school. 40,575 students in grades 7-11 of comprehensive schools from 17 regions of the Russian Federation took part in an anonymous questionnaire survey. In order to identify the features of teenagers’ involvement in art in the structure of leisure time and in the system of additional education, the indicators of inclusion in the system of additional artistic classes (“coverage”, preferences for types of art, and motivation for classes) were analyzed. The influence of gender, age and socio-stratification factors (educational and financial status of the family, etc.) on the activity of involving teenagers in artistic culture was also studied. It is shown that the styles of introducing teenagers to art differ significantly depending on the students’ involvement in the system of additional education, differentiating them by the level of activity in spending leisure time. A special analysis of responses in subsamples of students studying in the system of additional education with an artistic focus made it possible to characterize a number of trends in the motives that determine attendance of classes. It has been revealed that currently the use of new information technologies by schoolchildren is significantly replacing traditional forms of additional education for students in the field of art.