The Challenge of Achieving High Quality Non-formal Teaching in Community Settings
The Challenge of Achieving High Quality Non-formal Teaching in Community Settings
Author(s): Terry PriceSubject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Sociology, Vocational Education, Adult Education, History of Education, Educational Psychology, State/Government and Education, Social development, Social differentiation, Family and social welfare, Economic development, Social Norms / Social Control, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Sociology of Education
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: non-educational professional; non-formal courses; learning; non-formal teaching
Summary/Abstract: This paper is written by a non-educational professional and draws upon considerable personal experience (and that of others) of designing and managing learning based projects in communities that rely almost exclusively on tutors to deliver non-formal courses to a diverse range of learners with widely different needs and prior experience of learning. In some ways this remains a widely neglected sector within education across many parts of Europe when compared with the formal teaching of adults and children in primary, secondary and tertiary settings despite arguably facing the greatest teaching challenges. The paper will reflect on the reality for learners, learning providers and tutors and focus on the demands these make upon tutors and their consequent support and professional development whilst contrasting the reality of investment by Government and agencies in recognising and resourcing these needs and positing alternative ways in which it may be more likely to occur.
Journal: Педагогика
- Issue Year: 90/2018
- Issue No: 7
- Page Range: 921-935
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF