Extended Education of Teenagers in the Republic of Tatarstan R. Shakirzyanova 1 , M. Mefodeva 2 , A. Eveleleva 3 , A. Fakhrutdinova 4 , A. Iudintseva 5 and A. Fakhrutdinova 6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia 6 Foreign Languages for Humanities Department, Kazan Federal Universit, Kaxan, Russia E-mail: 1 <rozaja_79@mail.ru>, 2 <Marina.Mefodeva@kpfu.ru>, 3 <anjali@inbox.ru>, 4 <anestezi91@mail.ru>, 5 < anf.babaeva@mail.ru>, 6 <Anastasiya.Fahrutdinova@kpfu.ru> KEYWORDS Education. Extended Education. Socialization. Student. Teenager ABSTRACT The issue of organizing teenagers’ free time has gained special significance in connection with increased risks of their socialization. The purpose of the present study was to identify the most attractive directions for extended education programs for high school students. Accordingly, parents, students, and teachers were interviewed from the position of the educational effectiveness of these institutions. It was revealed that varieties of educational services providing conditions for the personal, professional, and creative development of students were not still fully used by institutions of extended education. This type of education also had great potentials in organizing socially significant activities and leisure ones for teenagers. Namely, in the system of extended education, there was an individual approach to children with any abilities, different levels of knowledge, and limited possibilities. Still, there were not enough programs that would acquaint them with the range of existing professions. INTRODUCTION Changes in personal values and priorities are taking place in modern society. In this regard, issues of human communication are of particu- lar importance. Modern teachers in Tatarstan also attempt to use the maximum of the educational potentials of each activity of children and teen- agers. Moreover, human existence in the world implied active cooperation with other people and organized spontaneous activities that connect a person as a free and independent individual with the whole world (Richards et al. 2017). The im- portance of institutions of extended education in the upbringing of teenagers is also dictated by the changes occurring in society and within the sphere of education, that is, 1. Change in the demographic situation; 2. Deterioration of health status among young people (according to the Ministry of Health, the current health status of children and young people has been de- teriorated by 22 percent over the past ten years); 3. Cultural imbalance in society (sociologi- cal studies show that schoolchildren read less good literature) (Polukarov 1998). 4. Digitization as a substitute for live com- munication; 5. The decline in intra-family connections. Besides, it is necessary to take into account the changes in economic conditions that have led to a distortion of moral values (Mulford 2008; Demakova 2016; Zakirova et al. 2016). All these factors are reflected in the revision of issues related to the upbringing of children and students. Now, there are several types of extended institutions which can modify the prob- lem of organizing leisure time for young people. Most of them are private, but only state-regu- lated ones were examined in this study (Fakhrut- dinova 2015; Richards et al. 2016). So, the purpose of the present study was to identify the most attractive areas and programs for extended education, targeting secondary and high school students. Since the socializa- tion of students of a given age is closely related to the choice of their future career and profes- sional self-determination; monitoring of pro- grams was also carried out from this position (Ukhimenko et al. 2017; Tovar-García and Podmazin 2018). Objectives In the current study, it was tried to identify the most attractive directions for extended edu- cation programs for high school students. Int J Edu Sci, 27(1-3): 50-54 (2019) DOI: 10.31901/24566322.2019/27.1-3.1101 © Kamla-Raj 2019 PRINT: ISSN 0975-1122 ONLINE: ISSN 2456-6322