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Non-Formal Education: Flexible Schooling or Participatory Education? (CERC Studies in Comparative Education Book 15) by Alan Rogers (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Non-Formal Education: Flexible Schooling or Participatory Education? (CERC Studies in Comparative Education Book 15) about?

This is the first full study of non-formal education on an international scale since the 1980s. The book describes the emergence of the concept in the context of development and educational reform. It traces the debate about non-formal education from its origins in 1968 to the mid 1980s, and looks at the issues that this debate raised. It then describes a number of programmes in different parts of the world which call themselves ‘non-formal’, pointing out the wide range of different views about what is and what is not non-formal. Rogers asks whether we should drop the term altogether or try to reconceptualise it in terms of flexible schooling or participatory education. This is an important new book by a well-established author. It deals with complex issues, but is written in a clear style. It contains an important new analysis of the development paradigms in which the controversies surrounding non-formal education grew up, and which shaped its purpose and impacts. The author’s call for a reformulation of the concept will find echoes not only in developing societies, but also in Western circles, where the language of non-formal education is being used increasingly within the contex

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Author
Alan Rogers (auth.)
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media, Inc
Published
2005
Language
EN
ISBN
9780387286938
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Education, Management, Business

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