The aim of this article is to analyse the latest implementations and issues raised in Turkish non-formal education from a historical perspective in Turkey. The high population rate and lack of adequate educational opportunities for adults and migration from rural areas to urban areas caused many educational, social and cultural problems in…

Placing exhibits in public places provides a unique opportunity to reach a broad non-museum-going audience. It offers marketing and publicity opportunities as well as the potential to develop relationships with agencies and individuals who are stakeholders in the public site. The purpose of this guidebook is to describe the steps in creating an…

In this review essay on James Coleman's "Youth: Transition to Adulthood," several criticisms are directed toward the "Youth" report's failure to pay sufficient attention to the problems associated with the alternatives that are to replace or supplement the formal school system.

Discusses the problem of dissemination of misinformation--either intentionally or innocently--while attempting to change environmental attitudes. Warns about unwillingness to engage in self-examination in ways that other professional fields do, and states that interpreters, in exchanging accuracy of information for persuasive power, risk losing…

Experiences of developing nations are used to formulate three types of nonformal education: as complement, satisfying needs unfulfilled by the school system; as alternative, using traditional or indigenous learning; and as supplement to the formal system. Nonformal education is analyzed across nations as system, setting, or process. (SK)

Extramural liberal adult education (LAE), as conceived in the particular UK tradition, was doomed by its high-minded origins and its privileged status, and contributed little to the new concepts of "éducation permanente," lifelong learning, the knowledge society, the learning society and region, or to the new understandings of university…

In 1993, the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) Board started the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education to establish a framework of standards by which their field is valued. Since then, the project has produced a series of "Guidelines" to help people produce quality EE. Just as importantly, the…

A discussion of the role instructional television can play in nonformal, or affective education, in developing nations. (HB)

A discussion of how other non-academic fields could be served by a multi-media system combining teaching at a distance with face-to-face tuition, based on the Open University in Great Britain. (Author/HB)

About a dozen students from the Psychology Institute of the Free University in Berlin organized a "pupil shop" project from July, 1969, through February, 1970, in an attempt to relate practice experience to their academic studies. This article consists of extracts and comments from a translation of their book, "Schulerladen: Rote Freiheit," which…

The authors argue that incidental learning--learning that is picked up through social interaction--is an important learning resource, though it is often not recognized as such by learners. Emphasis is on education for the unemployed. (Author/CH)

The Fleet Community Education Center is a working example of successful nonformal local community education. A description of the center and its facilities is provided. (ML)

Distinguishing between political science and political education, the Tanzanian author discusses the latter as a necessary weapon for freedom and human development in any country'' in the contexts of political education and freedom, ideologies, colonialism, equality of women, international understanding, political education for the masses and the…

Presents a conceptual framework for understanding the interrelationships among formal, nonformal, and informal education. (MP)