Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: Transforming education : large-scale reform projects in education systems and their effects = Umbau des Bildungswesens

Editor list: Gogolin, I; Baumert, J; Scheunpflug, A

Publication year: 2011

Pages: 37-50

ISBN: 978-3-531-16742-8

Title of series: Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft - Sonderheft

Number in series: 13

Abstract: 

During about the last ten years we experienced a considerable increase in the number of all-day schools in Germany. Between 2002 and 2008 the number of all-day schools more than doubled from 5,000 to about 12,000. Currently about 42% of all schools in Germany are all-day schools. Based on the data of the first nationwide representative study on the development of all-day schools (StEG), insights have been gained on the consequences this large-scale reform will have for the organisation of schools, the school staff and the learning culture at schools. The data show on the one hand that all-day schooling has changed the structure of the educational system in Germany in a significant and promising way. Most all-day schools improve the number and diversity of extra-curricular activities, and the majority of the pupils is participating in these activities. On the other hand there is only little evidence that the majority of all-day schools have established a new pedagogical learning culture a precondition for tapping the full educational potential that the additional time spent in all-day schools affords.

Harvard Citation style: Stecher, L. (2011) All-day School - Quo Vadis? : Some remarks on the development of all-day schools in Germany, in Gogolin, I., Baumert, J. and Scheunpflug, A. (eds.) Transforming education : large-scale reform projects in education systems and their effects = Umbau des Bildungswesens. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 37-50

APA Citation style: Stecher, L. (2011). All-day School - Quo Vadis? : Some remarks on the development of all-day schools in Germany. In Gogolin, I., Baumert, J., & Scheunpflug, A. (Eds.), Transforming education : large-scale reform projects in education systems and their effects = Umbau des Bildungswesens (pp. 37-50). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.