A guide for facilitators!
“Has an important role to play in reducing social inequality and exclusion and in promoting active participation in democratic life...” (Committee of Ministers of the
Council of Europe (2003)
As a planned and evaluated program
Of personal and social education for young people
Designed in order to enable acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes and values
Outside but supplementary to the formal education
Participation is voluntary
The programs are carries out by trainers leaders/facilitators
Ethical values
Tolerance and respect for others
Human rights
Intercultural learning and understanding
Peace and non-violence
Gender equality
Inter-generational dialogue
What makes an educational activity a non-formal one?
Can a lecture supported by a presentation be a non-formal education activity?
What participant/learner centeredmeans? What is the limit or borders, etc?
Learning?
Practising?
Fun?
Relationships?
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How do young people learn?
How do young people learn most effectively?
What kind of environment is the most responsive to young/adult learner?
What kind of learning has the most sustainable outcomes?
What is of interest to them
Voluntary
By using personal experience
With an intension to learn....
NFE is learner centered....
So what?
NFE is aiming at development of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values...
So how?
NFE derives the learner to personal and social change
When?
NFE is practical
Where?
What does experiential learning represents?
Learning can start everywhere in the cycle
The learning tends to be the most effective if the whole cycle is involved
Different people tend to concentrate more on/skip some of the phases in the cycle due to their learning styles
To encourage experience to happen +
to provide tools and space for
processing, transforming the experience into a
learning
The facilitator takes the participant's hand and guides him/her through the cycle of the experiential learning.....
Experience non-formal education and intercultural learning with students in schools through World’s Coloured Glasses!