Exploring and analyzing the concept of informal education: what it is and its characteristics
Subject Areas :
Mina Fayazi
1
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,
alireza sadeqzadeh
2
,
DR.SAYED MAHDI SAJADI
3
,
meysam sedaghat zadeh
4
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2 - Associate Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
3 - استاد دانشگاه تربيت مدرس تهران
4 - imam sadiq university
Keywords: What is informal education, characteristics of informal education, content analysis, qualitative research.,
Abstract :
Understanding the nature and essence of informal education is a necessary and undeniable introduction to intervention in informal education, planning, participation, policy-making, and also explaining the relationship between this type of education and formal education. Therefore, given the importance of this issue, the aim of the present study is to gather the most important definitions provided for the concept of informal education and its characteristics, with a maximal approach and their analysis, and to pave the way for providing a comprehensive definition of informal education and explaining its main characteristics. To achieve this goal, the most important definitions provided for the term "informal education" in verses have been collected and analyzed and analyzed using the "content analysis" method. The result of this work was the organization of the concepts raised in the various definitions of informal education, into two branches: essence and characteristics. Based on this two-branch classification, a definition of informal education, which includes the sum of the common definitions and distinguishes the basic differences, was presented as follows: "Informal education is part of the education process that is realized in a lifelong, intentional and systematic way, in various fields outside the formal education system. This type of education is carried out with the focus of responding to various individual, local and community needs, and with the active participation of guardians and learners in planning, decision-making and implementation.