How Far Out of School?: Reviewing 25 years of research with out-of-school time literacy programs in the US

• In Event: Literacies Across Spatial Scales

Abstract

This review conceptualizes out-of-school time (OST) programs through the lens of literacy-based goals intrinsic to the OST space’s immediate activities in addition to instrumental or school-subservient goals, and how differences between intrinsic and instrumental goals might manifest. We ask in this conceptual review how researchers have framed the literacy goals of OST programs over the last twenty-five years to create a narrative synthesis of the relationships this framing has to schools and schooling.

Authors

• Gemma Cooper-Novack, Independent Scholar

• Karis Jones, Empire State University - SUNY