EXTRACURRICULAR SCHOOL ACTIVITIES: A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW AND MODERN CHALLENGES

The article reveals the essence of extracurricular school activities and upbringing as a component of the system of education of Ukraine. Specific conditions of its existence are signified. The types of educational establishments performing extracurricular school activities are described. The stage - by - stage analysis of the native experience of extracurricular education in the historical retrospective view is carried out, beginning from 1919. Attention is concentrated on the features of functioning of extra-scholastic establishments in the existing terms, which are multifunction centers of pupils creativity with the signs of the complex multilevel pedagogical system. The article investigates the problem of reformation of the substance of extra-scholastic education that will encourage the development of cognitive motivation and creative capabilities of teenagers. Special attention is focused on the defining the position of extracurricular school education in the unitary educational environment and prospects of functioning of out-of-school educational establishments at the market of educational services.