formal, informal and non-formal education

1. UNESCO
Lifelong Learning
The Relationship Between Formal
Education and Continuing Education
Prepared by:
MARK P. ARMENTA
MAEd-Ed.Mgt.Student

2. Lifelong Learning Defined
• education and learning, far from being
“denotes an overall scheme aimed
limited to a period of attendance at
both at restructuring the existing
school, should extend throughout life,
education system and at developing
include all skills and branches of
the entire educational potential
knowledge, use all possible means, and
outside the education system in such
give opportunityandall people for full
a scheme men to women are the
development of the personality; the
agents of their own education,
educational and learning processes in
through continual interaction between
which thoughts and actions; and
their children, young people
adults of all ages are involved in the
course of their lives, in whatever form,
should be considered as a whole.”
(From the Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education, UNESCO, 1976).

3. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
by United Nations, 2001
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and diseases
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and otherhunger
Goal 2: Achieve environmental sustainability
Goal 7: Ensure universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health

4. Education for All Goals
Dakar World Education Forum , UNESCO 2000
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ensuring that by 2015 all children,
particularly girls, children in difficult
circumstances and those belonging to
ethnic minorities, have access to and
complete, free and compulsory primary
education of good quality
achieving a 50 per cent improvement in
levels of adult literacy by 2015,
especially for women, and equitable
access to basic and continuing education
for all adults
4

5. Continuing Education Defined
as the provision of
opportunity for
lifelong learning
after primary
schooling

6. The Three Subsets of
Continuing Education

8. Technical/Vocational
Higher Education
Doctorate
Diploma 2
Diploma 1
Certificate 3
Masters Degree
Equivalency
Pathways
Post Graduate
Diploma
Certificate 2
Bachelors Degree
Certificate 1
Associate
Secondary Education
Elementary Education
Early Childhood Education

11. POTENTIAL CLIENTELES OF NFE
Enroll in first
year high
school
Finish high
school
Pursue higher
education
EDUCATION
COHORT
ESTIMATES
23
43
For every 100
grade 6 pupils
58
66
from the Philippine Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) System pp.3-4

13. Lifelong Learning Defined
No. Criterion
Formal Education
1. Objective
To acquire lifelong skills and To acquire skills for immediate
to obtain a certificate
use.
2. Time-frame
It takes a long time to obtain Short and intermittent.
the certificates and it involves
full-time concentration.
3. Curriculum
Academic in approach
Non-formal Education and Self
Learning
Unacademic but it suits the needs
of the target groups/functional.
4.Methodology
Institutional with
authoritarian teacher/student
relationship
Flexible. Adult oriented. Stress on
independent learning.
5. Control
Top down relationship
Flexible depending on situation,
but largely self-initiated.

14. CONTINUING EDUCATION
Non-Formal
Education
National
Certificate
Informal
Education
Skills
Degree
Formal Education

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