When reality surpasses concepts : informality in social pedagogy
Úcar, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Teories de l'Educació i Pedagogia Social)

Date:	2024
Description:	18 pàg.
Abstract:	More than half a century ago, UNESCO popularised the terms formal, non-formal and informal to define, organise and characterise the macrocosm of educational actions. In this article I question the current relevance of these categories, and the characteristics of education and learning that act and intervene within the framework of social pedagogy. I focus mainly on informal learning, not only because it is the least well-known type of educational action, but because it is one of the central pillars on which the socio-educational relationships developed by social educators are built. I follow an orientated, though not systematic, procedure of documentary analysis. The analysis is conceptually orientated because I analyse two types of documents: (a) the documents that refer to informal education or learning, regardless of the territorial context or academic environment in which they are produced; and (b) those that relate such education or learning to social pedagogy. I organise the results obtained from these analyses into four sections. In the first section, I relate what different studies have proposed on formal, non-formal and informal education/learning, the ways of understanding them and the contents and procedures that respectively distinguish them. On the basis of this research, in the second section, I then propose a means of mapping to distinguish between the three types of education/learning. In the third section, I relate these forms of education/learning to social pedagogy. And finally, in the fourth section, by way of conclusion, I present some of the overlaps and hybridisations that demonstrate the current complexity of the universe entailing educational actions.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Social pedagogy ; Informal education ; Informal learning ; Formal education ; Non-formal education ; Formal learning ; Non-formal learning
Published in:	International Journal of Social Pedagogy, Vol. 13, Núm. 1 (2024) , p. 1-18, ISSN 2051-5804

DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2024.v13.x.018

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