Non-Formal Adult Education: Challenges and Prospectsof 21st Century

• Authors: OGIENKO OLENA , TERENKO OLENA
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article defines the essence and significance of adult non-formal education as an important component of the system of continuing education; analyzes changes in the definition of the phe-nomenon of non-formal adult education, its role and place in the knowledge society; emphasizes on the importance of development of mechanisms for validation of results of non-formal and informal adult education, training of and ragogues; outlines perspectives of its development.

Keywords

EN

adult education; non-formal adult education; knowledge society; lifelong learning; institutionalization; validation; training

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
• Journal: Edukacja-Technika-Informatyka
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 169-174

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

OGIENKO OLENA

• Dr hab. of Science in Education, Professor of Department of Pedagogy of A.S. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical University, Ukraine

author

TERENKO OLENA

• PhD, Senior teacher of Department of English Language Practice of A.S. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical University, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15584/eti.2018.2.22