Learning is truly a lifelong experience that offers many benefits. It can work to enrich your work life and social life, and can offer you great personal enjoyment and a sense of purpose. If you have been considering heading back to the classroom for some more education, you might first want to take into consideration the different types of learning experiences that are now available. Education isn’t just about traditional classroom learning anymore. Nowadays, there are a wide variety of classroom settings available to students of all ages.
Informal education is a general term for education outside of a standard school setting. It can refer to various forms of alternative education, such as:
->Unschooling or Homeschooling - from family friends and peer group
For me family we consider as informal education also because from our daily life we can learn something new especially from our parents brother and sisiter.
->Autodidacticism (Self-teaching) - from watching Tv/drama/sports.
From sports also we can learn somthing like teamwork.. courage..happiness..sadness..willing to do something which never give up and from seeing on tv can teach us to do the same also.
->Youth Work - youth work is the process of creating an environment where young people can engage in informal educational activities. Different varieties of youth work include centre-based work, detached work and school-based work."'Youth work' means a planned programme of education designed for the purpose of aiding and enhancing the personal and social development of young persons through their voluntary participation, and which is (a) complementary to their formal, academic or vocational education and training; and (b) provided primarily by voluntary youth work organisations.
Above picture is an example of youth activity (voluntary works) helping people who needed the most. Besides doing the voluntary works they automatically can learn to work as a group (teamwork) dan sebagainya.
The mass media and museums, libraries, zoos, and other community-based organizations and cultural institutions also offer forms of informal education.
Formal vs. Informal Education
Formal education is classroom-based, provided by trained teachers. Informal education happens outside the classroom, in after-school programs, community-based organizations, museums, libraries, or at home.
What are the main differences between the two?
In general, classrooms have the same kids and the same teachers every day. After-school programs are often drop-in, so attendance is inconsistent, as is leadership.
Classroom activities can last several days. After-school programs need to complete an activity each day because a different group of kids could be in attendance tomorrow.
You can assume that classroom-based teachers have a certain level of training in educational philosophy, effective teaching strategies, classroom management, and content. After-school providers, by contrast, vary in experience and knowledge of teaching techniques, content expertise, and group management. Typically, materials for after-school settings need to include a lot more structure.
Example of formal education
Example of informal education
Teachers need to meet educational standards and stick to a specified curriculum, which can make it difficult for them to incorporate nontraditional content. After-school programs, on the other hand, can be more flexible with their content.
Both formal and informal education settings offer different strengths to your educational outreach project. If your project fits in the classroom, it can have a very long life; teachers will use trusted resources for years. After-school programs offer a different kind of environment, where your activities don't need to be as formal and where you can reach a different audience.
While both schools and after-school programs serve students, many kids who feel disenfranchised at school blossom in after-school settings. Real learning can happen in a setting where kids feel less intimidated or more comfortable than they do in a formal classroom. The ultimate goal is that their success in an informal setting can lead to greater confidence in the formal classroom.
An additional benefit of developing materials for informal educational settings is that they may be useful to parents at home with their kids, or to adult learners who are looking to expand their knowledge, either for their own enrichment or to increase their career options.
Unit 3. Please write your experiences about: 1. Different types of education - organised, institutionalised, curriculum 2. Relevant and meaningful learning 3. Learning processes - imitation, observation, dialogue, [rejection], reflection, modeling, memorisation, [presumption], problem-solving, experimentation, identification, communication, [non-consideration], contemplation 4. Informal education - family, village elders, religious organisations, educational institutions 5. Peer groups 6. Cultural organisation - museums, libraries 7. Community organisations - clubs, associations, health/youth centres 8. The workplace 9. Mass media - persuasion, agenda, internet. Happy writing, Dr Leong.
Opinion :-
Based on my experienced……
As we all experienced all people going to school but the different is we not going the same school or we dont have the sama teacher to teach us …. we dont have the same environment … friends dan sebagainya. All this can make a different what we have learned. As for me, I spend 2 years at private school (Bakti Dewa School) and then i moved to primary school (Sekolah rendah Haji Tarif) for only 4 years and i moved again to another primary school (Sekolah Rendah Marsal)… from this i experienced a lot of different type of education because different schhol have different type of environment … teachers … friends dan sebagainya. During my time at primary school… honestly im not joining any club acitivites.. i did join one time during my time at primary school which is Club main catur but it doesnt last long because i have to transfer to another school …. for me this can termasuk dalam different types of education although saya inda berapa lama mengikuti club main catur atu but i did learned something about it. I remmeber during my time at primary school … we also teach how to jaga our teeth and every six month there is doctor came to our school to checked our teeth and teach us how to clean it .. how to brush it and how to jaga it. All this things main objective is to educate us and consider as educatrion also.
Oh yea forget to mention … as a muslim we also going to religious school which teach us different type of education than what we have learn at primary school. Kebanyakkannya subject yang di ajar dari sekolah ugama ani mengajar about our agama which is ISLAM. Tentang hukum hukum dan dan sebagainya which is relates to our everyday life. So it is very important for us to go to religious school in order to learned and experienced many type of different things. So basically during primary school time … there is many type of education that i learned and experienced just everbody does also but the only different is we dont have the same experienced but the knowldege were given was the same. During my time at secondary school i spend 6 years (Sekolah Menengah Berakas) during my time at secondary school there’a a lot of different thing that i learned. Beside leaning what we must learned at school i also leaned new things such as friendship .. teamwork dan sebagainya. As we knew that whatever result we have during o level exam … there is a peluang atau jalan yang berbeza untuk menerus perjalanan untuk belajar lagi. But based on my expereinced im not qualify to join any relevant school because of my result is not so good .. i think for 1 year i am unemployed but during that time i managed to go to evening class to take A level exam privately. So basically i dont want to waste any time when there is an opportunity we must grab it.
In our life … we will learn new things … we will never stop leaning new things as for me i started work at Youth and Sport Department under Youth Section at the age of 18 years old… yeaaa i started so early so it is very difficult for me to adjust anything such as how to communicate with other colleague and the environment is totally different from school time. but one thing for sure that i leaned many things and also expericed many things which can teach me and useful for the future. Oh yea forget to mention that currently im working at Temburong distrct from the the first day of my worked thats mean its almost 6 years already i worked with youth and sport deparment under youth section at temburong district.
When we talk about learning process….. yet we were still learning as long we still live but the process might be a different from each others. What ever we leaned at school were relevant to our future life but it also depends on what we really want. Just take my job as an example …. currently im working under youth section which most of my work were related to the youth activity for almost six years i already worked … too many experienced already which i can learned for myself. In youth work we also face so many different type of people especially the youth so there is challenged. Dalam dunia ini semua orang menghadapi masalah … tidak kira apa jenis masalahnya dan ia juga terjadi kepada belia belia … one thing yang baiknya biasanya when we seat togather with them inda kira lah secara individu o as a small group… we share our problem .. any problem regarding apa yang menimpa diri mereka pada masa silam dan sebagainya. Ini tidak bermakna untuk mengungkit dan untuk ingin tahu keburkkan seseorang tetapi we just wanne share our experieced what we have been through our life inda kira yang baik atau pahit. from this we can learned somthing serba sedikit untuk diri kira supaya kita berhati hati untuk menjalani hidup yang akan kita lalui nanti.
From experienced we can learned somthing … from experienced we can make ourself strong and mature in order to face any problem or challenged in our life dari segi how to communicate with other person in real life because dalam hidup kita seharian kita sering communicate each other lebih lebih lagi dengan zaman globalisasi ini ianya lebih senang untuk berkomunikasi dengan seseorang contoh nya melalui INTERNET… MOBILE PHONE… E-MAIL….. this is also part of learning proses in our life because dunia sentiasa berubah… bila ianya berubah kira akan melalui perubahan yang baru … dan bilanya ada perubahan yang baru kita akan belajar benda yang baru. Informal Education….. there is many type of informal education somtimes ia nya tanpa kita sedari berada di sekeliling kita …. dan bila bila masa ianya kita pelajari. Lets talk about family first, family is very important to everybody .. for me its part of the culture in Brunei that ‘family comes first’. There’s a lot of many things we can learned semasa hidup bersama keluarga ini as for me dari kecil hinggalah ke besar i still learned new things especially from my parents. Its culture of bruneian that we respect orang yang lebih tua daripada kita …. it culture of bruneian people we listen what they said as part of advice for us. Example any big decision making i must refer to my family first… minta nasihat what to do or something. ini membolehkan lagi kita berfikir dengan lebih terbuka lagi dan membolehkan kita membuat sesuatu keputusan dengan tepat dan baik.
I rembered when i was still a kid …. we lived closed with other family (Suadara-mara) every night during 6-8pm we gathered at my uncle house to learned or mengaji Al-quraan…this also can say part of informal education in our family tradition…bukan sahaja ianya mengajar kami mengaji tetapi dengan sendirinya ianya boleh mendisiplin kan kami dari segi pakaian .. masa … dan sebagainya. Peer groups is also can influenced everbody in order to make decision or anything. For me peer groups adalah yang kedua penting after family because peer groups also always be around. We lived different type of sorroundings or environment so there is many things that we have learned from each others which can infleunced ourself.
As i already mentioned i worked at youth and sports department under youth section…. we always doing activity gotong royong ke kampung kampung togather with the youth and also orang kampung di sana …. too many experienced that i gone through because different kampung different people…. different people diferent way of thinking dan sebangainya …. ini membolehkan lagi kita untuk befikiran lebih jauh terbuka. Walaubagaimanapun ada terdapat cabaran cabaran yang di hadapi sepanjang menjalankan this aktibiti… kalau nada cabaran dan dugaaan for me we can’t learned new things. The workplace also taught me alot … i experienced many things which is very useful for me although saya baru keraja for almost 6 years. Salah satu yang saya belajari selama saya bekeraja di Jabatan Belia dan Sukan cawangan daerah Temburong ialah Teamwork….Friendship..Love….Happy… Sad…. Tired….Relax dan banyak lagi. Dari pengalaman saya bekeraja ani kami sering bercakap secara public and communicate dengan orang inda kira ia lebih tua daripada saya atau lebih muda dariapda saya … bukan sahaja itu, dengan ada nya orang berpengalaman daripada kita… they will shared their experienced also and mengajar how to do to the work at first its hard for me but then kalau kita buat benda itu selalu lama lama kita akan belajar dariapadanya ….. Contohnya kalau terjadinya pertukaran ketua di tempat kita bekerja atau ada orang baru di tempat kita kerja … the environment will change … cara cara pentadbiran pun bertukar .. kerana lain orang lain caranya but its good though kerana dapat belajar lagi atau berpeluang lagi menimba ilmu pengetahuan dengan orang lain..
Mass media also memainkan pernan penting dalam hidup kita lebih lebih lagi dalam hidup pada zaman globalisasi ini….. somtimes it can change people or the sourrounding very quick…Example mobile phone… it really makes people easier to communicate each other or contact each other although its far from our house or workplace. Internet especially blogging will help the individu to publish his/her experienced … for its kinda like learning journal where er write about our daily life… event … youth activity dan sebagainya. from internet also we can contact more easily. Nevertheless there is also negative thing about this things its up to us how to handle the case.. from this we can learned soooo many things.
