Digressions are allowed, but not recognised as part of the cultural baggage that learners are expected to acquire. The teacher, to whom one refers as “sir” or “miss”, provides you a lesson, a lecture, a seminar, on topics officially set by curricula. The first relates to the concept of hierarchy: in formal education, this is clearly recongnisable – and accepted.
There are two ways to establish the difference. Which are the differences between formal and non-formal education? Is that it is an addition, alternative and/or a complement to formal education within the process of the lifelong learning of individuals. As for the definition provided by UNESCO, Non-formal education’s defining characteristic All of this has been lasting for centuries: but what if there are alternative ways of learning? Non-formal education (NFE) started to arise between the 60s and 70s, prompting a rollover of such scheme. The formality as a guarantee of quality the upper position of the teacher, the element that identified its knowledge. A room, a class, pupils, a desk and a teacher behind it: up to a few decades ago, this were the only things that came up when one though about education.