The Power of Non Formal Education

Main aim 

To improve our educational impacts through experiencing a non-formal educational (NFE) process

Why this Training Course?

• To stimulate the participants to feel and reflect about the power of non-formal education (NFE) by experimenting different educational methods.

• -  To broaden our perception of NFE and its potential impacts in our different realities in Europe.

  -  To explore the complementarity between formal and non-formal educational sector.

  - To affirm the political dimension of non-formal education, as a way to take an active role in society (empowerment process).

  - To reconsider our daily educational work practices, identify our challenges in order to improve the coherence between values we promote and our daily actions.

How it will be done?

In order to have real impacts, the participants experience an innovative approach, using a full immersion in the experiential learning cycle: doing/ feeling, reflecting, transferring...

The TC is not limited to the five days the participants spend together but starts before the actual encounter. Participants should therefore be well aware that they will be actively involved from the very beginning.

Besides the planned objectives and content of the activity, in informal moment, it is also an ideal opportunity to eventually find partners for future European projects.

Pre-training immersion

-Starting around 6 weeks before the training, through the “NFE News”, participants will receive weekly news which invites reflection on pedagogical issues and collect information / documentation. Participants are part of the building of this NFE News. Also a closed private Facebook group will be created to promote interactions between participants before TC starts.

-Issues / topics tackled: perception / recognition of NFE in your country, methods you use/have used…

A fundamental flow during the training

• Experiencing: different educational settings, different methods (role play, simulation game, exercises...).
• Reflecting: on the methods and its impacts, on the power and limits of NFE, on building a pedagogical process…
• Transferring: to the own reality of participants, in order to improve ways of working with young people.
• Sharing: different perceptions, current situations and experiences.
• Developing: the building capacity of the participants, by including them in the decision process of the project designing (participants will decide some sessions they feel they need to have) but also in the implementation of the program (“Power to the People – the People who are you” moments).