Penn State

Consortium forSocial Movements and Education
Research and Practice

Strategies For Nonformal Education

Strategies For Nonformal Education

Rolland Paulston, Gregory Leroy
1975
1975

Abstract

In this paper we propose: (1) to summarize and critique the prescriptive literature relating to "nonformal education" in the context of national development; (2) to offer reasons for the restricted range of uses commonly suggested for "nonformal education"; and (3) to present and document an alternative set of uses'for "nonformal education" which, while historically and currently important, are commonly neglected in schemes purporting to show how "nonformal education" can most effectively facilitate development processes.

Abstract

In this paper we propose: (1) to summarize and critique the prescriptive literature relating to "nonformal education" in the context of national development; (2) to offer reasons for the restricted range of uses commonly suggested for "nonformal education"; and (3) to present and document an alternative set of uses'for "nonformal education" which, while historically and currently important, are commonly neglected in schemes purporting to show how "nonformal education" can most effectively facilitate development processes.

Social Movements

Indigenous movements, Working Class

Keywords

Class, Decolonialism, Europe, Nonformal Education, North America, Pedagogy, Policy, Race

Theme

Popular Education; Adult Education; and Social Movement Learning