Formal, nonformal and informal learning: Some North-South contrasts.

Autor/in	King, Kenneth
Titel	Formal, nonformal and informal learning: Some North-South contrasts.
Quelle	In: International review of education, (1982) 2, S.177-187Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-8566
DOI	10.1007/BF00598445
Schlagwörter	Formal School; Informal Learning; Individual Motivation; Formal Learning; Comprehensive System
Abstract	Abstract It is argued that in the countries both of the South and of the North, inadequate attention has been given to the interactive dimensions of informal and formal learning. The differences between informal and formal learning have often been stressed in the past, but it is equally important to acknowledge the critical similarities as far as individual motivation and interest in learning are concerned. Before erecting new models for the integration of all three modes of learning, formal, nonformal and informal, into a system, it should be noticed that they already constitute a single comprehensive system — at least for the middle-class child. The problem in both the North and the South is often that the individual's learning is unsupported by any strong infrastructure of informal or nonformal education. This can happen in the industrialised countries, where the resources for informal learning are rich and varied, as well as in the developing world, where all too often the formal school has to operate without the support of a rich environment of literacy and learning.
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Update	2023/2/05