Bangladesh: non-formal education; Country profile prepared for the Education for all global monitoring report 2008: Education for all by 2015: will we make it?; 2007
This course is designed to provide you with fundamental knowledge of the types of education in general but with more focus on non-formal education. Module one units 1-7 will look at the main aspects of education types: formal, informal and non-formal education especially in relation to problems of definition. It then goes on to look briefly at informal education both in the past and today, focusing on its main characteristics and strategies both in general terms but also with reference to Papua New Guinea. It will also cover an in depth understanding of Non-Formal Education, including its scope; aims and objectives; philosophy; principles and psychology; growth and development; and its trends and future development. In module two several case studies are described to show the different varieties of non-formal education in the world today. These encompass both developed and developing countries. The case studies include Japan, Bangladesh, India, Philippines, Ghana and PNG. A detailed look at non-formal education in PNG is undertaken which again demonstrates the diversity and importance of this rapidly growing sector.
New material from the internet will enable students to understand rapidly expanding body of information on non-formal education. The main purpose here is to introduce the case studies so that students can see the similarities and differences with PNG, so that they have a better understanding of the great variety of non-formal education in different parts of the world and see how PNG could move forward in terms of adopting certain aspects of education from other countries e.g. India to enable it to improve its own system of non-formal education in the future, especially in the government sector where it has been neglected.
- Teacher: Mary Ulnas