What is ment by education? Explain difference between formal and Non- formal education how non formal education is useful to todays society?
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1) Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators and also learners may also educate themselves.
2) Formal education is usually provided in an institutional setting (e.g. school or university or college etc). Typically, there is a syllabus and the student’s learning is subjected to an assessment. Home schooling is an example of formal education delivered in a non-institutional setting though.
3) By contrast, informal education may just encompass stuff you learn from reading books or watching internet videos. This is typically not assessed and the ‘student’ may acquire such knowledge in a haphazard way rather than by following a syllabus. However, the latter is not necessarily the case: some autodidacts are highly systematic in following a structured plan — as is the case when someone learns a foreign language by listening to a course of CDs or MP3 sound files in sequence etc.
4) Non-formal education has been suggested as becoming more and more important in the last decades. As the aims of non-formal education are broad and diverse, a large variety of non-formal learning activities is available. One of the emerging fields in many countries, among them Finland and Germany, has been the establishment of non-formal laboratory learning environments. These laboratories were established in universities and research institutes to aim at enriching opportunities for primary and secondary school students to do more and more intense practical work, e.g. in chemistry.