Non-formal education contains adult education, continuing education, job education, etc. Philip Coombs talked about nonformal education in 1968. However, it had not been defined until 1970. Non-formal education is a concept for an ancient phenomenon. Some of its definitions are as follows:
Coombs and Ahmed (1974) define
“Any organized, systematic, educational, activity carried on outside the framework of the formal system to provide selected types of learning to particular sub-groups in the population, adults as well as children”.
La Bella defines non-formal education refers to
“Organized out-of-school educational programs designed to provide specific learning experiences for the specific target population.”
Hlich and Freire said that
“Non-formal education is anti-formal education”.
According to Moti Lal Sharma
“ In brief one could say that non-formal education is an active, critical, dialectical educational program which aims at helping people to learn, to help themselves, to place them in consciously critical confrontation with their problems. To develop integrated authentic human beings who can contribute to the development of society is the aim of Non-Formal education. In this not only the individuals but also the total system learns, adding up to a true learning society.”
References: Sociology of Education by S.S. Chandra & R. K. Sharma
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