Informal education is often used in formal or non-formal education as a method of teaching. This can be any kind of information that the learner picked up from the television, radio, conversations with friends and/or family. But informal education means also learning things without the learner realising that he learned it. Informal education also includes aspects whereby the individuals seek or want to learn a specific skill or when they look into a certain area and donвЂ™t use formal or non-formal ways to learn. It covers activities like individual and personal research on a subject or interests for themselves by using books, libraries, informal trainers, the internet or other resources. Informal education covers a vast array of learning that all people take part in, in their lives every day. вЂњIt encompasses a huge variety of activities: it could be a dance class at a church hall, a book group at a local library, cookery skills learnt in a community centre, a guided visit to a nature reserve or stately home, researching the National Gallery collection on-line, writing a Wikipedia entry or taking part in a volunteer project to record the living history of particular community.вЂќ (DIU&S, 2009: p4). вЂњlearning that goes on in daily life and can be received from daily experience, such as from family, peer groups, the media and other influences in a personвЂ™s environmentвЂќ (OГ±ate, 2006). Informal education can be seen as вЂlearning that goes on in daily lifeвЂ™, and/or вЂlearning projects that we undertake for ourselvesвЂњ (Smith, 2009). вЂњInformal education is that learning which goes on outside of a formal learning environment such as a school, a college or a university, therefore it is learning outside of the classroom/lecture theatre however more can be said by way of providing a definition of the term. Shortly this means that formal education fails to fulfil the real needs of students and the community. It happens that in this kind of education teachers pretend to teach, students pretend to learn and the institutions pretend to really catering the interests of students and the society. ThereвЂ™s also another cause to this failure: the studentsвЂ™ standards, values and attitudes are not considered in this education model. But it also fails to provide for their active participation during this progress. These objectives are rarely operationally established.ДЄssessments have a punitive, obeying and mono-directional methodology, and this fails to stimulate the students. In formal education you receive a degree or diploma at the end of the formation but there are also desired behavioural objectives. In formal education teachers and students have to observe, this involves intermediate and final assessments in order to advance students to the next learning stage. Formal education institutions are administratively, physically and curricularly organized and require from students a minimum classroom attendance. Schools and universities use this method to teach their students. This means that there are students, teachers and institutions involved. This model presents rather a rigid curriculum that corresponds to laws and norms. вЂњWhat students are taught from the syllabus.вЂќДЇormal education is an organized education model which is structured and systematic.

Formal learning is intentional from the learnerвЂ™s point of view. Earning that occurs in an organised and structured context (in a school/training centre or on the job) and is explicitly designated as learning (in terms of objectives, time or learning support). вЂњLearning that occurs in an organised and structured environment (such as in an education or training institution or on the job) and is explicitly designated as learning (in terms of objectives, time or resources).

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