Insights into the Experience of Additional Education by University Students

The paper presents the results of a study on the study of additional education in order to identify and substantiate the relationship of the influence of additional education on the choice of a future profession; substantiate the relationship of the age stage with the choice of the direction of additional education and its initiator. The achievement of the research goal is possible if the following tasks are successfully solved: 1. Аnalyze the theoretical aspect of the concept of autobiographical memory and life path in psychology. 2. Study the concept of autobiographical narrative and consider the specifics of its writing. 3. Consider the way of development of additional education in Russia at the legislative level, to study Russian and foreign large-scale empirical research in this area. 4. Analyze 3 groups of students ' autobiographical narratives on the following topics: "Autobiographical recollection of the experience of additional education" "How did I choose the university?» “My way of learning” 5. Interpret the results of the study. As a result of the study, the following relationships were identified. Additional education affects the trajectory of a student's admission in 43% of respondents, the leading sections forming the student's reference points were: art, language schools. TO a lesser extent: music school and creative associations of interests. The smallest number of respondents attend clubs and sections in preschool age (39%). With the onset of school age, there is the greatest increase in additional education. 83% of respondents attend extracurricular activities, the main initiators are still parents, although this percentage begins to decline by school age. By puberty, the initiative is completely transferred to the student, only 10% noted the initiative of parents. The decline in additional education in adolescence is not observed, on the contrary, the percentage ratio increases to 87%, which corresponds to large-scale studies conducted in megacities. In preschool age, the most popular type of extracurricular activities is drawing, in school-age it is replaced by sports sections since this age is aimed at overcoming fears, for example, competition, "tightness", etc., in adolescence, the leading activity is educational, so the first place is occupied by compensating activities, namely: language, math schools, as well as classes with tutors in various subjects. Keywords: additional education, extracurricular education, school, involvement of children and parents in additional education.