The SAGE Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning documents what the best research has revealed about out-of-school learning: what facilitates or hampers it, where it takes place most effectively, how we can encourage it to develop talents and strengthen communities, and why it matters.

Table of Contents

• Reader's Guide
• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Introduction
• The Field
• Rationale
• Content
• Organization
• Process
• Acknowledgments
• Volume 1
• A
• Access and Equity in Out-of-School Learning
• Active Learning
• Additive Model of Learning
• Adult Learning
• Adults Learning Coding Out of School
• Adventure Learning
• Affective Learning
• After-School Standards
• After-School STEM Programming
• Apprenticeships
• Apps and the App Gap
• Art Museums
• Artifactual Literacies
• Assessments and Assessment Issues
• Association of Science-Technology Centers
• Augmented Reality
• Avatars
• B
• Badges
• Barbie, Research on
• Best Practices
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Big Data
• Black Feminist Theory
• Blogs and Blogging
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America
• Business and Corporate Partnerships
• C
• Camp Fire
• Camps
• Chatrooms
• Child Care Learning
• Children's Hospitals
• Children's Museums
• Citizen Science
• Clubhouse Network, The
• cMOOCs
• Cognitive Development
• Comics and Manga
• Community Arts Programs
• Community Outreach Programs
• Community Service
• Community Technology Centers
• Community–School Partnerships
• Competitive, Collaborative, and Cooperative Play
• Computational Thinking
• Computational Tools
• Computer Access in the Home
• Computer Programming
• Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
• Connected Learning
• Connectivist Massive Open Online Courses
• Constructionist Learning
• Constructivist Learning
• Convergence Culture
• Copyright
• Cosmopolitanism
• Cosplay
• Crafting
• Creativity Strategies
• Critical Literacies
• Critical Race Theory
• Critical Theory
• Cross-Age Peer Mentoring
• Cross-Cultural Research
• Cultural Capital
• Cultural Institutions
• Cultural Studies
• Cultural–Historical Activity Theory
• Curation
• Cyberbullying
• Cyberculture
• Cyberlearning
• D
• Data Visualization
• Design and Out-of-School Learning
• Design Playshop
• Design Thinking
• Digital Divide
• Digital Literacies
• Digital Media and Learning
• Digital Music Composition and Out-of-School Learning
• Digital Storytelling
• Digital Youth Network
• DIY Media
• Dropout Reengagement
• E
• Ecological Systems Theory
• Economic Capital
• Educational Camps
• Electronic Portfolios
• Embodiment and Mathematics Learning
• Engagement in Tech-Mediated Learning
• English as a Second Language
• E-Textiles
• Ethics, Youth, and Digital Media
• Evaluation
• Everyday Creativity
• Everyday Expertise
• Extracurricular Activities
• F
• Fab Lab
• Family Learning
• Family Literacy
• Fan Fiction
• Fandom
• Feminist Theory
• Fifth Dimension
• Flipped Learning
• 4-H Youth Development Programs
• Friends and Peers
• Funds of Knowledge
• G
• Game Design
• Gamification of Learning
• Gaming and Affinity Spaces
• Gardening
• Gender in Out-of-School Learning
• Girl Scouts of the USA
• Girls Inc.
• Girls on the Run
• Girls' Programming
• Grassroots Organizing
• Group Mentoring
• H
• Hackerspaces
• Harry Potter Fandom
• Health and Online Learning
• Hip-Hop
• Hive Learning Networks
• Hobbies
• Home Environments
• I
• Identity, Theories of
• Indigenous Heritage Communities of North America
• Informal Learning in Music
• Information Literacy
• Inquiry-Based Learning
• Interactive Sensing Technologies
• Interest and Interest-Driven Learning
• Intergenerational Learning
• International Issues in Out-of-School Learning
• Internet Activism
• Internet Identity
• J
• Joan Ganz Cooney Center
• Joint Media Engagement
• Juvenile Justice and School Discipline
• K
• Knowledge Forum
• Knowledge Transfer
• Krump Culture
• L
• La Clase Mágica
• Latinos and Organized Activities
• Learner-Centered Paradigms
• Learning Analytics
• Learning by Making
• Learning by Observing and Pitching In
• Learning Pathways
• Learning Sciences
• Learning Through Observation
• Learning Trajectories
• LEGO and LEGO Foundation
• Libraries and Library Services
• LIFELOGGING
• Lifelong and Lifewide Science Learning
• Linking In-School and Out-of-School Learning
• Volume 2
• M
• Machinima
• Makerspaces
• Martial Arts
• Mass Amateurization
• Massive Open Online Courses
• Massively Multiplayer Online Games
• Math and Social Media
• Math Art Communities
• Math Circles
• Media Literacies
• Mediated Discourse Analysis
• Mentoring
• Mentoring and Tutoring for Youth With Special Needs
• Microblogging
• Migrants and Out-of-School Learning
• Minecraft
• MMOs
• Mobile Devices
• Mobile Learning
• MOOCs
• Motivation in Out-of-School Learning
• Multiliteracies
• Multimodality
• Museum Learning
• Music Entrepreneurship
• Music Making in Out-of-School Contexts
• Musical Futures
• N
• Natural Mentors
• Networks
• New Media
• O
• One-to-One Device Initiatives
• One-to-One Laptop Initiatives
• Online and Distance Learning
• Online Communities
• Online Safety
• Open Education
• Open Educational Resources
• Opencourseware
• Outdoor Learning
• Out-of-School Time
• P
• Parental Engagement and Investment
• Parent–Child Interaction
• Participation and Engagement
• Participatory Action Research
• Participatory Culture
• Peer Cultures
• Performance and Dramatic Experiences
• Performing Arts and Out-of-School Learning
• Photosharing
• Place-Making
• Playful Learning
• Podcasting
• Policies Supporting Out-of-School Learning
• Popular Culture
• Positive Youth Development
• Positive Youth Development Through Sport
• Preparation for Future Learning
• Pretend Play
• Problem-Based Learning
• Professional Development in Out-of-School Learning
• Program Development, Implementation, and Evaluation
• Program Evaluation
• Program Quality in Youth Sport and Physical Activity
• Project-Based Learning
• Public Television
• Q
• Quantified Self
• Queer Theory
• R
• Race and Ethnicity in Out-of-School Learning
• Radio
• Relational Developmental Systems Metatheory
• Religious Education in Out-of-School Settings
• Remote Indigenous Communities
• Research–Practice Partnerships
• Residential Education in Higher Education
• Robotics
• Role Play
• Rural Settings
• S
• School-Based Programs
• Science Clubs
• Science Fairs
• Science-Technology Centers and Science Museums
• Scratch
• Second Self, The
• Self-Directed Learning
• Self-Publishing
• Self-Tracking
• Serious Gaming
• Service-Learning
• Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
• Sesame Street
• Sims, The
• Situated Learning
• Social Capital
• Social Class and Socioeconomic Status
• Social Exclusion
• Social Media and Social Networks
• Social-Emotional Development
• Sociocultural Theory
• Sociodramatic Play
• Space and Spatialized Literacies
• Spoken Word Poetry and Out-of-School Learning
• Sports
• Statistical Discourse Analysis
• STEAM-Based Approaches to Out-of-School Learning
• STEM Learning
• STEM Learning in Informal Settings
• Summer Camps
• Summer Learning
• Systems Thinking
• T
• Tangibles and Tangible Learning
• Technology-Mediated Learning Environments
• Third Space and Sociocritical Literacy
• Tinkering
• Tinkering Studio, The
• Toys
• Transfer of Knowledge
• Transliteracies
• Transmedia
• 21st-Century Skills
• U
• Urban Settings
• V
• Video Games
• Virtual Reality
• Virtual Worlds
• Visual Arts
• Visual Culture
• Visual Literacy
• W
• Wac Arts
• Web-Based Instruction
• Wikis and Wikipedia
• Workplace Learning
• World of Warcraft
• Y
• YMCA
• YOUMedia
• Youth Activism and Social Movements
• Youth and Political Participation
• Youth Employment
• Youth Voice
• YouTube
• YWCA
• Z
• Zines
• Zone of Proximal Development
• Appendix A: Resource Guide
• Appendix B: Chronology