Non-Formal Education

The UNIQUE programme has been designed to be delivered using non-formal education techniques.

Non-Formal Education (NFE) is an approach to education.  It is not absolutely distinct from formal education in its methods; participants exercise varying degrees of control over the process, from designing all of their own learning and using the facilitator as a resource person, to attending a learning activity where the content is mostly planned in advance.  In some ways, we might imagine formal and non -formal education along a continuum—from high to low facilitator control, and from low to high learner participation.

In a nutshell, NFE is an approach to education that can be used with young people within the classroom or outside of it.  An integral part of NFE is that learners participate in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of their own learning.  It is important to be able to differentiate between formal, non-formal and informal education.