Nonformal education is more learner centered In his or her environment - from family andįrom the market place, the library and the mass media.Īny organized educational activity outside the established formal system whether operating separately or as an important feature of some broader activity that is intended to serve identifiable learning clienteles and learning objectives. Skills and knowledge from daily experienceĪnd the educative influences and resources Informal EducationThe truly lifelong process wherebyĮvery individual acquires attitudes, values, Way of choosing topicsThere is the possibility of looking into expectations, Values - formal systemChoice of training topics Single-handedly Imposed
Styles of communication-does not generally adopt style to the situation Methods of education - frontal, close, formal The teacher towers over learners.įormal EducationProcess less crucial Contents huge role Content (essence) is logically arranged, but according to the sense of lecture not the sense oflearning. The programme of teaching is a table of contents, which learners should memorize. Discipline of work consists in passive subordinating to teacher, doing tasks, realizing commands.In formal education marks are indicators of information remembered.įormal EducationThe mark becomes a symbol of value (pupil with high marks pupil with low marks). Learners sit in front of teacher, who passes on information. Teachers are prepared to pass on information, but they are not prepared to establish contacts with learners, to understand learners.įormal educationThe place of work (classes) is organized to somehow limit possibilities of move,conversations and contacts. The whole system of education is established on thebasis of the above mentioned assumption. Methods are not important, the effects are important Learner has to perform what he/she memorized. Is realized by school teachers mostly through passing on information and its memorizing.
Primary school through the university and including,Ī variety of specialized programmes and institutionsįor full-time technical and professional training. Lifelong learning was to be the 'master concept'that should shape educational systemsįormal EducationHierarchically structured, chronologically Unsuitable curricula Lack of motivation among learners Educational growth and economic growth were not necessarily in step, Jobs did not emerge directly as a result of educational inputs.ĭifficult to pay for the expansion of formal education Formal educational systems had adapted too slowly to the socio-economic changes The change would have to come not merely from within formal schooling, but from the wider society and from other sectors within it. These two concepts have to do with the extension of education and learning throughout life, Non-Formal Education is about 'acknowledging the importance of education, learning and training which takes place outside recognized educational institutions'.Ĭharacteristics Non-Formal EducationRelevance to the needs of disadvantaged groups.Ĭoncern with specific categories of personsĪlternative concepts Non-Formal Education Community Education and Community Learning Related concept - Recurrent and Lifelong Learning.
Non-formal education became part of the international discourse on education policy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some learning is intended and some is accidental. Some learning results from teachers and some does not. Teaching, by itself, does not constitute learning neither does passive listening.Įducation from Teaching to Learning Learners must decide to incorporate any knowledge, skill or attitude into their own set of values and behaviors or is not meaningful Learning happens outside the classroom as well as within. Learning means deciding about your own lifestyle.
The most important of these is learning how to learn. Non-Formal Education prof.Rumen Valchev This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commissioncannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained thereinĮducation means learning knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Training Educators for Non-Formal Education