The Importance of the School Magazine as an Extra-Curricular Activity in Facilitating Students’ Cross-Curricular Skills and Competences

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The paper examines school magazines as a crucial extracurricular activity that helps students develop cross-curricular skills and competences. It outlines the defining characteristics, aims, content focus, text types, and editorial organisation, highlighting how magazines provide a platform for youth to form opinions, challenge norms, pursue artistic aspirations, and build group identity. Using a case study of 103 issues of Izvir (since 1967), thematic network analysis shows diverse content and editorial improvements, with exceptional politically oriented coverage in 1979–1985 and a shift from socialist/communist ideology toward democracy.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

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Pages23

Reading Time58 min

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Introduction

Research focus and method

Findings: content, text types, zeitgeist

Received: 24 November 2022, Accepted: 30 November 2023, Published on-line as Recently Accepted Paper: February 2024 DOI: [https://doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.1559](https://doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.1559) The Importance of the School Magazine as an Extra-Curricular Activity in Facilitating Students’Cross-Curricular Skills and Competences Melita Lemut Bajec1 • The paper discusses the school magazine as an important extracurricular activity. We first define the characteristics of school magazines, pointing to aims, content focus, types of texts and the organisation of editorial boards. The fact that school magazines present an important platform for young people to formulate their opinions, challenge societal norms and values, pursue their artistic aspirations, and acquire knowledge, skills and competences, as well as form group identity, is emphasised. The objective of the research was to identify how the theoretical underpinnings of the school magazine as a clash of genres are reflected in the selected corpus of 103 issues of the school magazine Izvir, which has been in circulation since 1967. Particular interest is focused on the content, the types of texts, the presence of the zeitgeist and the edition notice. The research is in the form of a case study, applying thematic network analysis. The results show that the researched corpus covers diverse content, relating mainly to curricular and extracurricular activities, embraced in informative and interpretative journalistic texts, entertaining features and a literary section. The extent of politically oriented content engaging with issues that mark the period 1979–1985 is exceptional. The edition notice shows a significant improvement from the first issues, which lacked much of the required data, to the present perfected issues. Lastly, the magazines mirror the zeitgeist, transitioning from socialist and communist ideology to democracy. All in all, school magazines are an important educational pillar, adding to the formation of young people’s minds, but also encouraging teachers to question their roles, didactic methods and approaches. They also play a role in the formation of the school’s recognition in the local community. Keywords: edition notice, extra-curricular activity, skills and competences, school magazine, content, types of texts, zeitgeist 1 Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Melita.LemutBajec@pef.uni-lj.si. 200 the importance of the school magazine as an extra-curricular activity in Pomen šolskega glasila kot obšolske dejavnosti pri razvoju prečnih veščin in zmožnosti Melita Lemut Bajec • Članek obravnava šolsko glasilo kot pomembno obšolsko dejavnost. Najprej opredelimo značilnosti šolskega glasila. Pogledamo cilje, ki jim šolska glasila sledijo, vsebino, besedilne vrste, ki se jih ustvarjalci glasil poslužujejo, in delovanje uredništev šolskih glasil. Poudarimo, da so šolska glasila pomembna platforma, ki mladim omogoča, da izrazijo svoje mnenje, so kritični do družbenih norm in vrednot, zasledujejo svojeumetniške ambicije, pridobivajo številno znanje, veščine in zmožnosti ter prek njih tudi izražajo pripadnost šoli. Z raziskavo smo želeli ugotoviti, kako se značilnosti šolskega glasila kot hibridnega medija sporočanja odražajo v izbranem korpusu 103 številk šolskega glasila Izvir, ki izhaja od leta 1967. Posebno pozornost smo namenili vsebinam, besedilnim vrstam, prisotnosti duha časa in kolofonu. V raziskavi je bilauporabljena študija primera, pri čemer smo se poslužili analize tematskih mrež . Izsledki so pokazali, da preučevani korpus pokriva raznolike vsebine, ki se nanašajo predvsem na šolske in obšolske dejavnosti, zajete v informativna in interpretativna publicistična besedila, zabavnevsebine in v literarno ustvarjanje. Presenetljiv je obseg političnoangažiranega pisanja, ki je v preučevanem korpusu svoj vrhunec dosegel med letoma 1979 in 1985. Analiza kolofona kaže, da je glasilo napredovalood prvih številk, ki niso vs

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What role do school magazines play according to the study?

School magazines function as an important extracurricular activity and educational pillar, supporting the development of students’ skills and competences while helping them form opinions and identity. They also encourage critical reflection about teaching roles and methods.

What magazine corpus and method were used in the research?

The research analyzes a corpus of 103 issues of the Izvir school magazine circulated since 1967. It uses a case study approach with thematic network analysis to examine content, text types, zeitgeist presence, and the edition notice.

What were the key findings about political orientation and historical change?

The corpus shows exceptional politically engaged content covering issues from 1979 to 1985. Overall, the magazines mirror the zeitgeist, transitioning from socialist and communist ideology to democracy, and the edition notice improves across editions.

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